Recovery
Project rescue
Get an honest read on a troubled project, and a decision you can defend.
Leaders holding a project that is late, over budget, or no longer trusted — and who need a clear answer before the next board meeting.
Sound familiar
Where this usually starts
- The status reports are green and the delivery date keeps moving.
- Nobody can tell you what is actually finished, only what is in progress.
- The vendor says one thing, your team says another, and you cannot referee it.
- You suspect the honest answer is to stop, and you need someone who will say so.
The work
What we actually do
- Establish what is genuinely done, separate from what is reported as done.
- Find the real constraint — scope, skills, sequencing, decision-making, or money.
- Give you a straight recommendation: recover, restructure, replace, or stop.
- If it is recoverable, rebuild the plan and hold the delivery cadence until it is stable.
- If it is not, plan the stop: what to salvage, what to write off, what to tell whom.
- Rebuild the reporting so the next status you read is one you can trust.
How it runs
A short assessment — usually days, not weeks
A written recommendation, costed and sequenced
Optional hands-on recovery leadership until delivery is stable
The assessment is yours; we work for you, not the vendor
Scope
What this is not
Knowing where an engagement stops is worth as much as knowing where it starts.
- Not a blame exercise. We are looking for the constraint, not the culprit.
- Not a rubber stamp. If the honest answer is to stop, that is the answer you will get.
- Not a takeover. Your team keeps the work; we fix how the work is led.
Common questions
About project rescue
How quickly can you tell us whether it is recoverable?
The initial assessment is deliberately short. Most of the answer comes from talking to the people doing the work and looking at what has actually shipped, and that does not take weeks.
Will this make our vendor defensive?
Sometimes. We run the assessment straight and share the findings with you first. A vendor doing good work usually welcomes an independent read; one that resists it has told you something useful.
What if the problem is our own team?
Then we will tell you that, privately and without theatre. Most troubled projects fail on decision-making and sequencing rather than on the people doing the work.
Next step
Talk about project rescue
Thirty minutes, no charge. Describe the situation and we will tell you plainly whether this is the right piece of work — and whether we are the right people for it.