How to Prepare a Recovery Plan That Works
“One of the most difficult activities in the project environment is to keep the planning on target.” — Harold Kerzner
Why Do So Many Recovery Plans Fail to Recover the Project?
You have been there. The project is running behind. The client demands a Recovery Plan. Your team submits one — it looks credible on paper, shows recovery back to the original completion date and gets approved.
And then the project continues to slip.
This scenario plays out on projects around the world, repeatedly. The problem is not that the team is not working hard enough. The problem is that most recovery plans do not address the real causes of the delay. They reschedule. They add overtime. They compress activities. But they never ask with rigor and with the right people in the room — why is the project actually behind?
This course gives you a step-by-step methodology for preparing recovery plans that actually recover projects. It is grounded in root cause analysis, rigorous schedule understanding and practical recovery techniques that account for real-world constraints including overtime deterioration curves, brownfield access limitations and the unique challenges of offshore project environments.
Who This Course Is For
- Project managers and project directors who have been or will be required to submit a Recovery Plan to a client
- Planning engineers and project controls professionals responsible for schedule recovery analysis and reporting
- Senior engineers and construction managers involved in identifying and resolving the root causes of project delay
- Owner-side project representatives who need to evaluate, challenge and accept or reject Recovery Plans submitted by contractors
- Any project professional who wants to understand how to prevent, identify and decisively correct project schedule failure
What You Will Learn
Course Outline at a Glance
| Topic | What's Covered |
|---|---|
| The Recovery Context | When recovery plans are needed; intervention thresholds; the cost of late intervention |
| Baseline vs. Revised vs. Recovery Plan | Definitions, differences and the contractual implications of each document type |
| Why Projects Fail | People, process and technical failure factors — the diagnostic foundation for recovery |
| Why Recovery Plans Don't Work | The most common recovery plan failures and precisely how to avoid each one |
| Total Float, Free Float & the Critical Path | Float analysis for recovery prioritization; overtime productivity deterioration |
| Brownfield & Offshore Special Cases | Access and accommodation constraints; owner vs. contractor recovery obligations |
| Recovery Options | Fast-Tracking, Crashing and Overtime — techniques, cost implications and limitations |
| The 5-Step Methodology | Cut-off date → Delay identification → Root cause analysis → Recovery measures → Recovery plan |
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Emmanuel Udo
MSc, PMP, CMC, FIMP
Emmanuel has prepared and evaluated recovery plans on live capital projects. The 5-step methodology in this course is not theoretical, it is the tested, field-proven approach he has applied to recover real projects under real client pressure. Every case study, caution and insight comes from hard-won field experience.
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Your next recovery plan should actually recover the project. This course shows you exactly how.
- Focused 5-hour course — complete it in a weekend | Certificate of Completion
- The only course built around a proven, step-by-step recovery plan methodology
- Immediately applicable — bring this framework to your next project
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Course Price: USD 127 (NGN 127,000) Save USD 124
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