Rescue the problem project: a complete guide to identifying, preventing, and recovering from project failure -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Understanding the Process and Realizing a Problem Exists -- Chapter 1: The Basics of the Recovery Process -- Chapter 2: Management's Responsibility in Identifying the Problem -- Part II: Auditing the Project: Understanding the Issues -- Chapter 3: Assessing the Human Role in Project Failure -- Chapter 4: Auditing Scope on a Red Project -- Chapter 5: Determining Timeline Constraints -- Chapter 6: Examining Technology's Effect on the Project -- Part III: Analyzing the Data: Planning for Project Recovery -- Chapter 7: Determining and Initiating Remedial Action -- Chapter 8: Building an Extended Project Team -- Chapter 9: Considering Options for Realigning Technology -- Chapter 10: Assessing How Methodology Affects the Project -- Chapter 11: How Agile Methodology Can Assist in a Recovery -- Chapter 12: How Critical Chain Methodology Can Assist in a Recovery -- Chapter 13: Comparing the Relative Value of Methodologies for Project Recovery -- Part IV: Negotiating a Solution: Proposing Workable Resolutions -- Chapter 14: Proposing and Getting Agreement on a Recovery Plan -- Chapter 15: Dealing with -- Part V: Executing the New Plan: Implementing the Solutions -- Chapter 16: Implementing Corrective Actions and Executing the Plan -- Part VI: Doing It Right the First Time: Avoiding Problems That Lead to Red Projects -- Chapter 17: Properly Defining a Project's Initiation -- Chapter 18: Assembling the Right Team -- Chapter 19: Properly Dealing with Risk -- Chapter 20: Implementing Effective Change Management -- Appendix: Files on the Rescue the Problem Project Web Site -- Endnotes -- Recommended Reading -- Index

When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, the usual response is to browbeat the project team and point fingers of blame. Not helpful. For these situations, what is needed is an objective process for accurately assessing what is wrong and a clear plan of action for fixing the problem. "Rescue the Problem Project" provides project managers, executives, and customers with the answers they require. Turnaround specialist Todd Williams has worked with dozens of companies in multiple industries resuscitating failing projects. In this new book, he reveals an in-depth, start-to-finish process that includes: techniques for identifying the root causes of the trouble; steps for putting projects back on track audit the project, analyze the data, negotiate the solution, and execute the new plan; nearly 70 real-world examples of what works, what doesn't, and why; and, guidelines for avoiding problems in subsequent projects. Many books explain how to run a project, but only this one shows how to bring it back from the brink of disaster. And with 65 per cent of projects failing to meet goals and 25 per cent cancelled outright, that's essential information.