Programme Recovery
Restore control when a programme is stalled, drifting or losing executive confidence. Start with the evidence, stabilise the immediate risks and rebuild a credible route to delivery.
Where we help
A delayed milestone rarely tells the whole story. Cost pressure, supplier underperformance, unrealistic plans and unresolved dependencies can reinforce one another. We help sponsors understand what is recoverable, which choices are urgent and where continued investment needs a different basis.
Diagnose
Assess actual progress against the critical path, deliverable quality and remaining work. Examine RAID, dependencies, finances, resource capacity and supplier obligations independently of headline reporting.Stabilise and replan
Contain immediate delivery risks, establish decision ownership and challenge plan realism. Build a recovery baseline with explicit assumptions, costs, priorities and trade-offs.Mobilise and recover
Align workstream leaders and suppliers around achievable commitments. Address blocked dependencies, strengthen business readiness and make commercial accountability visible.Govern and restore confidence
Maintain a clear executive view of progress, residual risk and decisions. Rebuild confidence through evidence of completed work and a controlled return to sustainable delivery.PearsonGoldman Delivery Confidence Assessment
Used when a sponsor needs an independent view of delivery risk before committing to a recovery route.
What it examines
Plan credibility, critical-path exposure, cost to complete, RAID quality, supplier performance, work-package readiness and leadership decisions.
Indicative outputs
An evidence-led diagnosis, prioritised stabilisation actions, recovery options and a decision-ready delivery baseline.
The decision it supports
Leadership can decide whether to continue, re-scope, resequence or stop work, and where recovery leadership is required. The assessment establishes the scope and timing of the recovery work.
Recovery of stalled programmes.
PearsonGoldman brings experience across recovery of complex multi-workstream programmes, including stabilising and delivering four previously stalled programmes within approximately ten months.
Discuss a programme in difficulty.
Discuss the delivery risks, supplier concerns or decisions that are holding your programme back.
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