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Project Recovery and Turnaround for Troubled Projects

Every experienced South African project manager eventually inherits a project that is late, over budget and losing the confidence of its sponsors. This course gives a structured method for diagnosing what has gone wrong, stabilising the situation and rebuilding a credible path to delivery. It deals frankly with the difficult conversations, renegotiation and hard choices that recovery demands.

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What you will be able to do

  • Diagnose the root causes of a failing project quickly and without blame.
  • Stabilise a project by containing scope, cost and schedule bleeding.
  • Rebuild a realistic recovery plan and re-baseline with stakeholder agreement.
  • Rebuild trust with sponsors, clients and delivery teams through honest communication.
  • Renegotiate commitments, contracts and expectations where the original plan is no longer viable.
  • Decide objectively when a project should be recovered, reset or responsibly stopped.

Course outline

  1. 01Recognising a project in trouble
  2. 02Rapid diagnosis and root cause analysis
  3. 03Stabilising scope, cost and schedule
  4. 04Building a credible recovery plan
  5. 05Rebuilding stakeholder trust
  6. 06Renegotiating commitments and contracts
  7. 07The decision to continue or stop
  8. 08Recovery case study workshop

Who should attend

Project managers, programme managers, sponsors and PMO leads who are asked to rescue projects in trouble or want to recognise and correct warning signs earlier.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
2 to 3 Nov 2026Johannesburg2R10,000Register
3 to 4 Nov 2026Cape Town2R10,000Register
4 to 5 Nov 2026Durban2R10,000Register
5 to 6 Nov 2026Pretoria2R10,000Register
9 to 10 Nov 2026Windhoek2US$1,100Register
10 to 11 Nov 2026Gaborone2US$1,100Register
11 to 12 Nov 2026Maseru2US$1,100Register
12 to 13 Nov 2026Mbabane2US$1,100Register
16 to 17 Nov 2026Lusaka2US$1,100Register
17 to 18 Nov 2026Harare2US$1,100Register
18 to 19 Nov 2026Lilongwe2US$1,100Register
19 to 20 Nov 2026Blantyre2US$1,100Register
23 to 24 Nov 2026Mozambique2US$1,100Register
24 to 25 Nov 2026Nairobi2US$1,100Register
25 to 26 Nov 2026Dar es Salaam2US$1,100Register
26 to 27 Nov 2026Kigali2US$1,100Register
30 Nov to 1 Dec 2026Kampala2US$1,100Register
1 to 2 Dec 2026Accra2US$1,100Register
2 to 3 Dec 2026Lagos2US$1,100Register
3 to 4 Dec 2026Cairo2US$1,100Register
7 to 8 Dec 2026Mauritius2US$1,100Register
8 to 9 Dec 2026Dubai2US$1,100Register
9 to 10 Dec 2026Online2US$900Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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Next session
19 to 21 Oct 2026
Venue
Johannesburg
3 day programme
FromR13,000
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