Software Project Recovery
Channel: IDesignIncTV
Date: 30/07/2014

Do any of these sound familiar? The project feels like a lie as the project plan has little in common with actual events. There is complete lack of trust between customers, managers and developers. No one has any sense of schedule or cost. All attempts at fixing it just make things worse. In spite of chronic overtime the customer has lost all hope of every receiving the system. The team's morale is low and attrition is high. These are the common symptoms of a project in dire need of recovery - a rescue effort to save the project, setting the project again on credible schedule budget and quality. Recovery often requires establishing a new schedule and budget calibrated to what the team can produce as well as re-scoping the project. Project recovery is a limited period of time of strong intervention and decisive actions to save the project. The goals of recovery is to stop the hemorrhaging and deliver on a new date and scope, to restore trust across the project stakeholders, to rekindle faith in the team's own abilities, and avoid the crisis recurrence in the future. In this sober session Juval will share his experience in leading successful project recovery efforts rescuing projects in distress. You will see how to avoid fixing the symptoms such as the schedule or the budget and instead addressing the root causes of the failure, and how to regaining control over the project.