Rapid Assessment and Recovery of Troubled Projects

Section One: Overview of the Rapid Assessment and Recovery Process

•  Key variables: people, process, tools, metrics
• Key inhibitors and sensitivities
• Identifying the early warning signs of troubled projects
• Assessment benefits and challenges by assessment type
• Overview of the Rapid Assessment Model
• Assessment and stabilization charter
• Process summary

 Section Two: Develop the Assessment Plan

• Plan assessment process
• Keys to performing good assessments
• Rapid assessment planning meeting and approach
• Documentation review and the project team
• Determining the approach and focus areas
• Assessment planning tools
• Identifying threats, opportunities, and problems

 Section Three: Conduct The Assessment

• Assessment process
• Conducting interviews
• Tools and processes for conducting interviews and questionnaires
• Analyzing project data, metrics, processes
• Affinity diagramming
• Prioritization of threats, opportunities and problems

Section Four: Developing the Stabilization Plan

• Translation process
• Executing risk, problem and opportunity management plans
• Skills transfer
• Implementing project control metrics tracking
• Inchstone planning
• Addressing the people, process, product and timing
• Stabilization conceptual overview

Section Five: Conduct the Stabilization

• Executing, monitoring and updating the inchstone plan
• Techniques for prioritizing threats, opportunities, and problems
• Rebaselining the project plan
• Implementing project control metrics
• Establish A Continuous Improvement Framework
• Project management skills and methodology
• Tools and Project Office
• Outside planning and assessment
• Avoid classic mistakes
• Establishing a plan for continuous improvement