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Program Professional Framework

Managing Projects Through Crisis and Recovery

Program Overview

Projects enter crisis through sudden external shocks such as supply disruptions or force majeure events, or through slow internal decay of scope, schedule and morale. This course equips project leaders to detect early warning signs, run a rapid project health check, stabilise the situation and lead a structured recovery. Topics include crisis governance and decision-making, triage of scope and priorities, re-baselining schedule and cost, renegotiating with contractors and sponsors, restoring team confidence, and capturing lessons, illustrated with recovered projects from Gulf construction, energy and IT sectors.

Learning Outcomes

✓Recognise early warning indicators of project distress in performance, stakeholder and team data.
✓Conduct a rapid project health check and classify the project as recoverable, restructure or terminate.
✓Establish a crisis governance structure with clear decision rights and reporting frequency.
✓Re-baseline scope, schedule and budget and secure sponsor approval for the recovery plan.
✓Apply contract provisions on force majeure, suspension and variation when renegotiating with contractors.
✓Lead team communication that rebuilds confidence and accountability during recovery.

Target Audience

Project and programme managers
Project sponsors and steering committee members
PMO managers handling troubled projects
Contract and commercial managers

Detailed Program Modules

01How Projects Enter Crisis

External shocks versus internal decay
Common root causes of project failure
Early warning indicators

02Project Health Check and Diagnosis

Rapid assessment methodology
Interviews, data review and root causes
Recover, restructure or terminate decisions

03Crisis Governance and Stabilisation

Crisis team and decision rights
Immediate containment actions
Communication with sponsors and stakeholders

04Recovery Planning

Scope triage and priority reset
Re-baselining schedule and budget
Resource and supplier recovery measures

05Contracts and Commercial Recovery

Force majeure, suspension and variations
Renegotiating with contractors and vendors
Claims risk during recovery

06People, Morale and Learning

Leading a demoralised team
Monitoring recovery progress
Lessons learned and organisational safeguards

Training Methodology

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

Applied Project & Assessment

Applied Project

Participants diagnose a troubled case project and present a recovery plan: a health check report, a recover-or-terminate recommendation, a re-baselined schedule and budget, a contractor negotiation position and a team communication plan.

Assessment

Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by Alzette University in Managing Projects Through Crisis and Recovery

International accreditation: Global Leadership Organization (GLO)