First, what do I mean by "Project Recovery"?
Project Recovery is the effort and activities related to addressing troubled projects. In other words, the activities that lead you to recognize that the project is troubled, then bring you to a decision point on whether or not to save that project, then those activities you might undertake to drive that project to completion.
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Can You Make a Project Manager Out of Fairy Dust?
Sure, with enough Fairy Dust and some wishful thinking, anyone can make a Worldclass Software Engineer or a Pipefitter, or a Chemical Engineer out of Fairy Dust too, right? You Can't? Then why are Project Managers different?
We all know I am simply making a point here and that is that the role of PM is often minimized in the minds of those contemplating the notion. For some reason, when some people think of a Project manager, they think of someone that simply manages a task list in a scheduling tool, or someone we only see when we've overrun our budget.
This in itself has been the cause of many project failures.
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