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Forensic Project Management for troubled, delayed, and disputed projects.

Project Sciences investigates project failure, identifies root causes, assesses schedule and budget impacts, and builds practical recovery roadmaps grounded in evidence—not optimism.

  • 24-hour initial response
  • Evidence-based assessment
  • Executive-ready findings
See the warning indicators

What It does

When normal project management is no longer enough.

FPM is the discipline of investigating, diagnosing, and recovering troubled projects. It is an evidence-based examination of delayed, over-budget, disputed, underperforming, or failing initiatives to determine what happened, why it happened, what the impact is, and what corrective actions are required.

This goes beyond conventional project management. It is, in effect, a form of project crisis intervention. Internal teams often cannot repair a failing project from inside the same system that contributed to the problem. Our role is not to assign blame or criticize. We work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop objective, non-judgmental observations, defensible assessments, and positive outcomes for current and future projects.

Triage

The 7 critical warning indicators

One signal may be manageable. Several signals appearing together usually indicate a project
that needs independent intervention.

1.

Client confidence is falling

Stakeholders are dissatisfied with performance and no longer trust the forecast.

2.

Deadlines keep moving

Milestones are repeatedly missed, deferred, or redefined without credible recovery.

3.

Budget exposure is increasing

Costs are trending beyond plan, but the final financial impact remains unclear.

4.

Deliverables are unstable

Requirements are unclear, scope is drifting, or acceptance criteria continually change.

5.

Teams have lost focus

Priorities conflict, accountability is diffuse, and activity is not producing progress.

6.

Vendors are misaligned

Suppliers are failing to perform, responsibilities are disputed, or SLAs are ineffective.

7.

Cancellation is being discussed

Executive sponsors are considering suspension, termination, litigation, or replacement.

Core capabilities

Key tasks and activities

We separate symptoms from causes, reconstruct the project reality, and restore a practical
operating structure.

1

Root-cause analysis

Identify the real reasons the project is failing—not merely the most visible symptoms.

2

Scope review

Examine scope drift, unclear requirements, change history, and strategic misalignment.

3

Schedule reconstruction

Rebuild a credible timeline from facts, dependencies, capacity, and actual performance.

4

Budget triage

Determine where funds were expended, identify exposure, and stop further leakage.

5

Stakeholder reset

Re-establish trust, clarify roles, and reset expectations using transparent evidence.

6

Risk containment

Contain immediate threats and protect critical deliverables from further damage.

7

Recovery roadmap

Create an achievable, measurable plan with clear ownership and decision points.

8

Governance reinforcement

Install controls, reporting, and accountability so progress remains disciplined.

Road to recovery

Project Management Triage Assessment (PMTA)

Most engagements begin with a Project Management Triage Assessment—a focused, independent review that establishes the project’s condition, immediate risks, root causes, and practical recovery options.

  1. When to call

    Delayed projects, budget overruns, failed implementations, vendor disputes, PMO issues, or executive concern.

  2. What we investigate

    Scope, schedule, cost, governance, quality, risk, communications, and vendor performance.

  3. What clients receive

    Evidence-based findings and event chronology, project health score, recovery roadmap, and executive briefing.

  4. Why Project Sciences

    PMP, Scrum, ITIL, ISO/quality, PMO, metrics, WBS, roadmaps, and decades of practical experience.

  5. Industries served

    IT, telecommunications, technology, operations, transformation programs, and public/private sector projects.

  6. Response commitment

    Contact us by phone or email. We strive to respond to inquiries within 24 hours.

Typical engagements

Forensic intervention creates value

Collaborative recovery

A disciplined sequence that moves the project from instability to durable control.

Experience that supports action

Senior expertise for rapid, defensible project recovery.

When a project is under pressure, experience determines whether recovery is fast, defensible, and durable. Senior practitioners apply decades of forensic project management, PMO governance, and schedule analysis to restore control with evidence—not assumptions.

Our consultants are credentialed specialists with deep, proven experience in project recovery, governance, and delivery frameworks. This expertise is organized into four core capability areas that directly support rapid, defensible project recovery:

Project Recovery & Forensic Analysis

PMP, schedule forensics, WBS reconstruction, performance metrics

Governance & Quality Systems

PMO governance, ISO quality discipline, ITIL service lifecycle

Delivery Frameworks

Agile delivery, Scrum, iterative recovery methods

Executive Communication & Reporting

Evidence chronologies, defensible findings, recovery roadmaps

Project Management Triage Assessment

A project is failing. You need an assessment that establishes what happened and why, the resulting schedule, all impacts, and what must be done next.

Phone469-298-9643 Emailinfo@project-
sciences.net
Business hoursMonday–Friday, 9:00
AM–6:00 PM CDT
Office2300 McDermott Rd,
Suite 200-198
Plano, Texas 75025 USA

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The FPM Roadmap showing six stages from assessment and alignment through monitoring, measurement, and adaptation