Rescuing Failed Projects

Imagine the following scenario: a project manager is sequestered into their respective manager’s office and the manager proceeds to inform him/her that they are being re-allocated to another project. However, the project manager is clearly aware that this is not any ordinary project. This project had churned through nearly a dozen project managers. What should the project manager do as the fight or flight response begins to take over? First, the project manager must remain calm. The scenario that I just described truly did happen to me. Matter of fact, the previous project manager awarded me a double-barreled Power Popper Nurf Gun, passed down by his predecessor (in the line of fire). The sense of humor was appreciated at the time.

Based on this experience along with other similar scenarios (albeit not to this magnitude), patterns had begun to develop and I realized that there is an opportunity and need to share what I have been able to glean from these related project rescue experiences.

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About the Author Greg Rogers Greg Rogers is a program manager with a large North Carolina health plan. He is an accomplished Project Management Professional (PMP) with 13 years of vast project management experience in the fields of Finance, Life Insurance, Health care, and Technology ventures. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and is a graduate of the prestigious EDS Systems Engineer Development Program. Greg can be contacted at gregrogers@nc.rr.com.