Project and Program Turnaround

This book provides experience-based guidance on how to recover a development program or project in trouble. It probes deeply into how to plan a turnaround, select team members, organize the turnaround, identify the most important work to keep the program alive, focus teamwork, and encourage innovation. The book also discusses how to motivate hard work, worker ownership of product, and efficient team communication. Specific topics include causes of program trouble, finding a turnaround lead, kicking off a new plan, highly valuable program metrics, the value of good team ethics, recruiting problem solvers, motivating continuous process improvement, accurately tracking accomplishments, correcting development failures the first time, and managing product/process configuration.