Has your project hit the buffers?
Summary
In any case, the reviewer is required to form their own view, on the basis of which to make sound recommendations that will help get delivery back on track. It’s helpful to build up a toolkit of diagnostic questions across all areas of delivery, from commercials and relationships, to requirements, architecture and design, all the way through to operational readiness. When building a recovery plan, it’s critical to focus again on delivering real business value, not simply the perceived solution. As I’ve described above, it can often be helpful in these situations to introduce an independent perspective, unencumbered by the project’s history and politics, and immune to the influence of the wearers of rose-tinted spectacles within the team. Our review gave the technology a largely clean bill of health, but delivered some far-reaching recommendations on leadership, sourcing of IT capability and change management processes, all of which were taken on board and subsequently implemented.