Project Remediation
When a project is under pressure, the first challenge isn't fixing it. It's understanding what is actually happening.
Realising-Potential helps organisations, project managers and teams establish an evidence-based view of complex or underperforming projects. We connect decisions, governance, people, processes, systems, information, dependencies and risk to identify what is driving the current position and what can realistically be done about it.
A project under pressure usually has multiple versions of reality: schedule says one thing, finance another, contractors another, project management another, executives another.
The time to call us
We are often brought in when leaders, project managers and teams can no longer confidently determine what is happening, why it is happening, or what they should do next. This can be due to a vendor capability falling short, solutions have been oversold, project management has failed, or the organisation has lost confidence in the information it is receiving. Our role is to establish an independent, evidence-based view of the project, identify what is driving the current position, and give leadership defensible options for what happens next.
A Seven Element Diagnostic Framework
| 7 Element Diagnostic Framework |
A diagnostic frame is used to surface issues and challenges. |
|---|---|
| Strategy |
Is the project still aligned with objectives and required outcomes? |
| Structures |
Are all authority, responsibilities and interfaces clear? |
| People |
Does the project have the capability, capacity and behaviours required? |
| Process |
Where are work, approvals and decisions flowing or stalling? |
| Technology |
Are systems enabling delivery or creating constraints and dependencies? |
| Information |
Is project information reliable, connected and sufficient for decisions? |
| Governance |
Are accountability, escalation, decision rights and evidence working? |
We create a connected view of the project's current state using available evidence rather than relying on a single report, system or stakeholder perspective.
We look at what is, before determining what’s next.
The true project position.
Seeing the project as a connected system.
Diagnose causes not symptoms.
Identify where value is being lost.
Understand the decisions shaping the project.
Assess options and consequences.
Intervene where it matters.
Establish the intervention is working.
Restore project confidence.
We examine not only project performance, but the decisions producing it; who made them, what information was available, what constraints applied, what dependencies existed and what consequences followed.
