The project is late and getting later. The team is demoralized. Your boss is asking hard questions and getting cheerful status reports that increasingly don't match reality. Everyone knows something is wrong but nobody's saying it out loud.

Sound familiar? Let's fix it. And make sure it doesn't happen again.

Most troubled projects aren't broken for the reasons people think. They're drowning in work in progress, running on totally wrong gut-feel estimates, and building against requirements that are hazy at best. The problems are almost never what everyone thinks.

In this session, we'll replace estimation with measurement, get honest about what "done" actually means on your team, and build the diagnostic skills to figure out what's really going wrong. And for the projects that are already in the ditch -- we'll talk about crisis communication, rebuilding trust, and the hardest question: should this project even continue?

Let's get your project unstuck.

You will learn:

• How to diagnose the structural causes underneath a troubled project by distinguishing the symptoms everyone's blaming from the actual problems -- unclear Definition of Done, excessive work in progress, and requirements that weren't ready when work started.
• How to replace gut-feel estimation with measurement-based approaches that give you honest answers about when work will actually be done.
• How to apply a crisis communication and triage framework to determine whether a struggling project should be rescued, restructured, or killed -- and how to have that conversation with leadership.