Tools and Tactics to Recover Troubled Projects New

Complex development projects often veer off schedule or budget, threatening product timelines and dependent initiatives. This course gives engineers and technical leaders a structured approach to identify, assess, and recover failing projects at any stage. You'll walk away with actionable strategies to regain control and deliver results under pressure.

• Engineers and technical leads managing or contributing to product development.
• Project managers working on high-stakes or interdependent technical initiatives.
• Cross-functional team members involved in planning, executing, or rescuing complex projects.

This course is part of the Technical Leadership Certificate and Project Management Certificate. Course may be taken individually as well.

1. Introduction
2. Identification of troubled projects
3. Environmental factors leading to troubled projects
4. Types of Troubled Projects
5. Assessment and troubleshooting in:
   • Early stages – conception, initiation
   • Planning – prioritization, resourcing
   • Executing & Controlling
   • Rollouts, Delivery, Closing
6. Recommending and Executing Recovery Options

Shawn Belling

Shawn Belling is a technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has held executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors. 

Shawn is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro) within the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Shawn is also the Delivery Experience Officer at FarWell Project Advisors LLC of Madison, WI. Areas of professional and academic practice include project and program management, agile practices, organizational change management, software and IT strategy and delivery, new product development and remote work.

In addition to over 30 years of technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks and consults for businesses, universities and professional organizations on various leadership and management topics and practices. Shawn released his books Succeeding with Agile Hybrids in November of 2020 and Remotely Possible in June of 2021.

Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner and is also a Certified Scrum Professional and Registered Scrum at Scale Practitioner.

Shawn earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater and Master of Science in Project Management from UW – Platteville. Shawn earned a certificate in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.