How to Bring Your Project Back on Track

In this episode, Ricardo gives 5 tips on how we can get a troublesome project back on track:

Seek support from the sponsor;
Evaluate the scope;
Deliver a minimum viable product (MVP);
Rebuild the credibility and motivation of the team;
Re-negotiate deadlines and costs with the sponsor and the client.

Episode transcript

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the five minutes BM podcast. A couple of months ago, I recorded a podcast about the concept of entropy. I am fascinated by dystopic because it reflects really the reality of most of projects and the reason why project management team, because it's, so what I said in that podcast is if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong because the kales do that chaotic situation that may say that line are things much more probable than order then compliance then effectiveness, because this is the normal condition of things, because it's much more probable.

If you think on the probabilistic way that we'll miss a deadline, then that you meet at that line because meet the deadline is just one date. Soon. The deadline is at all possible dates that are not that specific date. So it's much more probable so that this will happen than you making your dad do. So having said that, I want to discuss today with you about how you put your project back on track. So let's suppose that the entropy's affecting your project, then things are not working as you plan it.

So things are becoming chaotic. So how do you try to bring back your projects to deliver what you promise or at least most of what you promise? So I wanted to share with you five tips, 500 devices from my own experience, the first one, then probably one of the most important. We've not the most important. You look for executive support. The first thing you need to know to keep on track, you need executive support in patching to do it, bring your project back on track.

You need a very strong sense of sponsorship. You need a very strong back in because its a very traumatic process to recover things. So you need to look for that without this support, the order for things I'm talking to, you will not work. The second one is take a deep solid look in the scope of your project.

Try to see if the risk, anything you can remove from the scope. We don't know removing the main objective it's as an announcer. Or do you imagine you need to put your train back on track. So we imagined that weight of the train. So what I'm telling you, its in this case, it's better. If you can remove something from the train. So the train becomes a little bit lighter so you can carry it back on track. So this I'm not saying this is always, but is there anything I can do to remove some unnecessary features are in keep only the core, trying to record that this drives me to the third advice.

It's Luke for a minimum wage product or MVP this is a very interesting or a concept. And it's something that I'm applying a lot in my projects. He is trying to identify. Is there anything on this time scope of my Project any entering a product that I can release that I can Deliver because by delivering that I'm delivering some of the benefits. It's not all of them, but some of the benefits and that is increasing executive support because I'm delivering an I am moving.

So is there anything I can do to have a better minimum viable product is part of my scope. The fourth one is rebuilt the team because when things go wrong, it's very easy to lose motivation to lose the thing Moro. So it's very, very important that you go back and make a strong motivational commitment to increase the more of the team. Because look, imagine in normal circumstances, he's already a challenge to motivate in managing on a crisis.

Imagine when things are now not ready when you have, and you require an additional effort on that. So you need to reboot this team more and last but not least, it's impossible for you. He thinks went wrong. DEC, you continue to believe in that you will deliver on that same deadline in the same cost there's will not work. So what do you need? You need to repacked. You need to renegotiate that timeline did deadlines and the costs.

This is the price you need to bring your Project back on track short. If you think on this five items, Zach, what the thoughts or reevaluate to the pros at scope, the identification of the minimum viable product, rebuilt your team, Mauro and renegotiate deadlines and costs. You we'll be able to increase your chances of moving your projects back on track and continue delivering most of the items you promised before.

So this is what, what makes the difference. I'm not saying it's a perfect thing the whole time. That is not to be out of Track okay. But if you are on track, you need to understand that some loss you need to accept, and this is very different from allowing your training, just to move out and explode outside. These are two different things. So between the grate and that awful they're is something you can do to me, make your Project Deliver at least partially your benefits.

It's not as directly what people expect because people love do we identify magic solution, but honestly magic solutions did not exist. I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes to BM Podcast.

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