Recovery / v1.0 clean-room
Recovery Reset Plan
Stabilise a troubled project and create a credible reset baseline.
When to use
Use after exception, sustained amber/red status, supplier failure, or loss of confidence.
Sample suggested content
Project example: Troubled delivery reset
- Current condition: Red; plan no longer credible and ownership unclear.
- Stabilise: Freeze non-essential change, confirm decision owners, rebaseline critical work.
- Decision ask: Sponsor approves reset plan and weekly recovery checkpoint.
Minimum version
- Current condition
- Stop/continue recommendation
- Stabilisation actions
- Reset controls
- Decision asks
Fuller version
- Root causes
- Contract implications
- Reforecast
- Recovery governance
- Confidence checkpoints
Field guide
- Diagnosis
- Viability
- Immediate actions
- Reset baseline
- Governance
- Decision
Tailoring notes
- Use Recovery control level by default
- Shorten reporting cadence until confidence improves
Common mistakes
- Resetting dates without changing controls
- Treating recovery as a communications exercise