Project management consultants are not typically called in when things are going well; it’s a little like being invited to a party that is already tanking or a game where the home team is losing. No one’s in a good mood, and no one particularly wants you to be there. Sure, projects are “manageable;” if, by manageable, you mean that they are chaotic, in crisis, over budget, and off schedule. And this is right where we come in.

Project management consultants tend to walk into the middle of chaos. We typically find that the executives don’t like what’s going on; they do not feel they’re getting the results they should; budgets are out of sort… whatever the reason, there is – understandably – a lot of pressure to quickly develop corrective action. In an ideal world, here is what we’d do: