Project and Contract Management
Project Management
Recovering a Project in Trouble
Diagnose a project that is failing, decide whether it can be saved, and run the recovery.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Contact hours
- 18
- Level
- Advanced
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Recovery is a distinct discipline from delivery. It starts with an honest diagnosis, usually against resistance, and often ends with a recommendation to stop. This programme covers the assessment, the replanning, and the political work of resetting expectations with a sponsor who has already been told the project was fine.
Who should attend
Project and programme managers, sponsors, and PMO leads asked to intervene in troubled delivery.
What you will be able to do
- Assess a troubled project quickly and separate symptom from cause.
- Decide between recovery, rescope and termination on evidence.
- Rebuild a plan that the delivery team believes.
- Reset sponsor and stakeholder expectations without losing support.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, in house, executive workshop.
Programme outline
Day 1
Diagnosis
- Rapid assessment under time pressure
- Symptom against cause
- Reading a status report that has been managed
- Talking to the delivery team
Day 2
The decision
- Sunk cost and how to argue past it
- Recover, rescope or stop
- Building the decision paper
- Recommending termination
Day 3
Running the recovery
- Rebaselining with credibility
- Rebuilding team confidence
- Sponsor and stakeholder reset
- Preventing the second failure
What you leave with
- A rapid assessment framework the delegate can apply immediately.
- A decision paper structure for recover, rescope or stop.
- A rebaselining approach with credibility built in.
- A stakeholder reset communication plan.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 25 November 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,200 |
| 30 November 2026 to 2 December 2026 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Classroom | US$1,200 |
| 7 to 9 December 2026 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R12,000 |
| 14 to 16 December 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R12,000 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.