Archive for the ‘ Troubled Project Recovery ’ Category

If I have to rescue a project, where do I start?

Today begins a new series of posts on rescuing a troubled project. It is written entirely by our friend and colleague, Bob Louton. Enjoy. The mindset for rescuing a project At some point in a project-management career, we can find ourselves assigned to rescue someone else’s project. More often, we need to rescue our own project. This article

Priority #1 in project rescue – Stakeholder Management

We continue our series on rescuing troubled projects by Bob Louton, PMP.   This post discusses the most urgent part of a project to stabilize, stakeholder management. It has served me well always to start here. This means that you should concentrate your time on finding and fixing the big problems with stakeholder management ahead of all other

Priority #2 in project rescue – Configuration Management

We continue our series on rescuing troubled projects by Bob Louton, PMP. This article discusses the second most urgent of the project items to have working well, configuration management. After you have addressed the big problems with configuration management (CM), you can turn your focus to the next on the list. I will cover that in my next

Priority #3 in project rescue – Plan of record

We continue our series on rescuing troubled projects by Bob Louton, PMP. This article discusses the 3rd-most urgent of all process areas, the project plan. After you have addressed the big problems with the plan, you can turn your focus to the next on the list which we’ll discuss in the next post. Now I can already anticipate how some

Priority #4 in project rescue – Requirements management

We continue our series on rescuing troubled projects by Bob Louton, PMP. This article discusses the 4th-most urgent of all process areas, requirements management. After you have addressed the big problems with the plan, you can turn your focus to the next on the list.   For every project I’ve ever been on, the project team had a love-hate

Priority #5 in project rescue – Communications management

This is the last in a series on Rescuing Projects by our friend and colleague, Bob Louton, PMP. This article discusses the 5th-most urgent area of a project, communication management. This is also the last on my list. As you address the big problems with team communications, you can progressively turn your focus to the remaining project problems. One