Download or read book How to Deal with Troubled Projects written by Henrique Moura and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project managers frequently have an ambiguous attitude toward a troubled project. On one hand, on a personal level, a troubled project is demanding, with unfulfilled expectations, pressure, conflict, and hard work. On the other hand, it requires project managers to practice the best of project management: establish direction, prioritize issues, gather people around a common objective, negotiate objectives, and solve problems. This paper suggests an approach for identifying and dealing with troubled projects with confidence and control. The approach deals with redefining project objectives, and identifying and fixing problems across people, process, and product dimensions. The rescue process is broken down into distinct phases to improve control: mandate, assessment, definition, intervention, and transfer. Some of the main symptoms and potential causes that can be detected on project management documentation and human behavior are identified. Many of the suggested techniques were developed through trial and error by progressively customizing classic project management approaches to a crisis environment.