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Project Rescue in 90 Minutes
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Project Rescue in 90 Minutes

Diagnose Troubled Projects, Choose the Right Recovery Strategy, and Build a 30-Day Recovery Plan
Created byMohamed Abdelaziz
Last updated 10/2026
English
ArabicGerman

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose a troubled project by separating facts, assumptions, symptoms, and root causes.
  • Rebuild a credible project picture across scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, and decisions.
  • Decide whether a project should be stopped, stabilized, recovered, replanned, or managed through a combined strategy.
  • Build a practical 30-day recovery plan covering the first 72 hours, Week 1, Day 15, and Day 30.
  • Create recovery actions with clear owners, deadlines, dependencies, success measures, and exit criteria.
  • Present an executive recovery brief with the current truth, recovery strategy, actions, and decisions required.

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Course content

4 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 9m total length

  • You’ve Just Inherited a Troubled Project7:19

    You inherit the troubled Atlas Transformation Project just 48 hours before an executive review. This opening simulation shows why project recovery must begin by establishing the current truth before taking corrective action.

  • Triage First: What Must You Know Immediately?7:01

    Learn how to triage a troubled project quickly by identifying verified facts, active constraints, overdue decisions, urgent actions, and the information that matters most in the first hours of recovery.

  • Find the Real Problem, Not the Loudest Problem7:03

    Diagnose the causes behind poor project performance by separating visible symptoms from immediate, systemic, and management causes, while avoiding premature blame or unsupported conclusions.

Requirements

  • Basic familiarity with project management concepts and terminology.
  • Some practical exposure to projects, project teams, or delivery environments is helpful but not mandatory.
  • No specialized software is required; the downloadable Project Rescue Toolkit is provided with the course.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Multilingual Learning Support

This course includes English (US) captions and subtitles in 8 additional languages: Arabic, French (France), German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Turkish.

When a project starts to slip, the biggest mistake is often acting before understanding what is really happening.

Project Rescue in 90 Minutes is a practical, scenario-based course for project professionals who need to diagnose troubled projects, make difficult recovery decisions, and build a credible path forward.

Throughout the course, you will work with the Atlas Transformation Project, a realistic project-recovery scenario that develops as the course progresses. Instead of learning recovery as a collection of isolated concepts, you will follow one continuous management journey from the first signs of trouble to an executive recovery decision.

You will learn how to establish the current project truth, separate verified facts from claims, distinguish symptoms from underlying causes, and identify the conditions that are materially affecting project performance.

You will then rebuild a credible management picture across scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, and critical decisions, before evaluating whether the project should be stopped, stabilized, recovered, replanned, or managed through a combined recovery strategy.

The course then moves from diagnosis to action. You will build a structured 30-Day Project Recovery Plan covering the first 72 hours, Week 1, Day 15, and Day 30, with clear actions, owners, deadlines, dependencies, success measures, and exit criteria.

Finally, you will learn how to convert the recovery strategy into a concise Executive Recovery Brief that communicates the current truth, evidence of control, the recommended recovery approach, and the decisions required from senior management.

The course includes:

A 7-tool Project Rescue Toolkit

A practical Toolkit User Guide

The Atlas Transformation Project Case Pack

A scenario-based final assessment

This is not a project management fundamentals course. It is a focused recovery masterclass for professionals who need a structured, evidence-based approach to moving a troubled project from confusion, to control, to credible recovery.

Who this course is for:

  • Project Managers and Senior Project Managers responsible for troubled or underperforming projects.
  • Project Directors and Program Managers who need to make recovery and escalation decisions.
  • PMO professionals supporting project governance, assurance, and recovery initiatives
  • Consultants and client representatives involved in project oversight, delivery, or intervention.
  • Project professionals preparing to take responsibility for an inherited or distressed project.
  • Experienced practitioners who want a practical, decision-focused approach to project recovery rather than project management theory.

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