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Projects rarely fail for a single dramatic reason. They drift, absorb pressure, and reach a point where the plan and the reality have quietly separated. Project recovery is the work of closing that gap: stabilising the situation, establishing what can genuinely be delivered, and rebuilding a plan.
PEF Consulting Partners recovers troubled projects and programmes, led by the team behind the recovery of the BP Pulse EV charging rollout across five countries. Start with the free Programme Recovery Health Check for an honest read on where your programme stands.
We do this independently, reporting to the sponsor, with no stake other than a good outcome.
Establish the true position quickly, stop uncontrolled change, and give the sponsor an honest picture. A project in trouble has usually lost the thread of where it actually is, and that has to be recovered first.
Work out what can be delivered from here, not what the original plan promised. Separate the genuinely essential from what has accreted, and build a plan with a credible date and honest contingency.
Reporting the sponsor can trust, governance that raises issues early, and honest conversations with delivery partners. Confidence is usually as damaged as the schedule and has to be rebuilt on purpose.
A recovery led from inside the project inherits the assumptions and relationships that let it drift. An independent recoverer can ask the uncomfortable questions, challenge the sacred cows, and give the sponsor a view uncoloured by how the project got here.
The initial assessment typically takes two to three weeks. Stabilisation begins immediately and a re baselined plan follows shortly after.
No. The same discipline applies to a single important project as to a major programme. What matters is that the work is consequential enough to be worth recovering properly.
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We bring senior people who have delivered exactly this at scale. Honest advice, and accountability for the outcome.