IT Project Recovery & Rescue
Rapid stabilisation and recovery of failing IT programmes — diagnosis, stakeholder alignment, replanning, and governance reset.
Understanding This Service
What It Is
A rapid diagnostic and recovery engagement for IT programmes in distress — delivering a clear situation report, stakeholder realignment, a recovery plan, and a governance reset to stabilise the programme and restore confidence.
Who It's For
Executive sponsors, IT leadership, and programme boards facing a failing ERP implementation, digital transformation programme, or large-scale IT project that has lost control of scope, schedule, or stakeholder trust.
When It's Needed
When a programme is materially behind schedule, over budget, or has lost stakeholder confidence — and a rapid independent diagnosis is needed to determine whether to recover, replan, or escalate.
Why Clients Request This Service
Programme in Crisis
Stakeholder Trust Breakdown
Scope & Schedule Out of Control
Governance & Escalation Failure
Scope of Testing
Scope is tailored per engagement, but most recovery programmes draw from the following.
Rapid Programme Diagnosis
Rapid assessment of programme status covering scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and delivery team capability.
Root Cause Analysis
Structured root cause analysis of programme failure drivers, distinguishing governance failures from technical and delivery issues.
Stakeholder Reset Workshop
Facilitated stakeholder realignment to rebuild trust, clarify accountabilities, and agree recovery ground rules.
Replanning Workshop
Structured replanning session to establish a realistic, re-baselined schedule with proper contingency and governance checkpoints.
Governance Framework Redesign
Design of a revised governance structure with clear decision rights, escalation paths, and programme board accountability.
How We Run This Engagement
Rapid Mobilisation
Mobilise within days of engagement, prioritising immediate access to programme documentation, team leads, and executive sponsor.
Diagnostic Assessment
Assess programme status across scope, schedule, budget, governance, team, and stakeholder dimensions over 5–10 days.
Situation Report
Deliver a frank, evidence-based situation report to the programme board and executive sponsor, including root cause findings and recovery viability assessment.
Stakeholder Alignment & Replanning
Facilitate stakeholder realignment and run structured replanning workshops to establish a recovery baseline and governance reset.
Recovery Plan Delivery
Deliver the recovery plan, governance framework, and re-baselined schedule, with clear milestones and a 30-day stabilisation plan.
What You Walk Away With
Situation Report
A frank, evidence-based assessment of programme status, root causes, and recovery viability for the programme board and sponsor.
Root Cause Analysis
Structured analysis of the underlying failure drivers across governance, scope, delivery, and stakeholder dimensions.
Recovery Plan
A realistic, re-baselined recovery plan with milestones, resource requirements, and 30-60-90 day stabilisation actions.
Governance Framework
Revised governance structure with clear decision rights, escalation procedures, and programme board accountabilities.
Re-Baselined Schedule
A credible re-baselined project schedule, stress-tested with the delivery team and validated by the programme board.
This service commonly supports requirements under:
What Makes Our Testing Different
When an IT programme is in crisis, the worst response is slow deliberation — but the second-worst is reactive change without diagnosis. Portamus mobilises rapidly to deliver a frank, evidence-based situation report, facilitate stakeholder realignment, and produce a credible recovery plan that the programme board can own and execute.
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