If your programme is running late, over budget, or has lost stakeholder confidence, you need a recovery specialist who has done this before — at scale, under pressure, and with measurable results.
The Projects for Profit team have successfully recovered more than seven major enterprise programmes across public sector, healthcare, higher education, logistics, and financial services — on programmes to £85M. We don't just stabilise: we restore momentum, rebuild trust, and leave your organisation stronger than we found it - from problem to outcome
Programme recovery diagnoses why your actions to date have stalled or failed, and then implement a disciplined, evidence-based turnaround plan. It involves rapid health checks, governance realignment, stakeholder re-engagement, and — crucially — a credible, visible roadmap that rebuilds confidence at every level, tracked through appropriate approval loops against the target benefits realisation for success .
Our recovery work is grounded in PRINCE2, MSP, MoR, ITIL, and Agile frameworks, applied pragmatically to the real situation — utilising but not imposed as a checkbox exercise.
We conduct an independent, structured assessment of your programme within days of engagement. Using a proven health check framework, that identifies root causes, quantifies risk exposure, and produces a SWOT analysis with clear recommendations for the board.
We ensure the governance framework works from the ground up — resetting roles and responsibilities, re-establishing RAID controls, and introducing stage-gated assurance that gives executives the confidence that the programme is back under control and updates progress through a programme dashboard.
Every recovery needs a credible, visible plan. We create a realistic, resourced roadmap — visible in real time through cloud-based PMO dashboards — that sets clear milestones, financial oversight, and benefits tracking.
Using collaborative workshops, transparent communication strategies, and behavioural science principles, we re-engage teams, rebuild trust with vendors, and restore confidence with executive sponsors and boards.
We identify gaps in the delivery team and plug them — through coaching, structured training, and bringing in the right specialists at the right time. We embed best practice so the organisation retains capability after we leave.
We put programmes back on track, with a credible plan, clear ownership, and visible progress against a governed roadmap.
Board, executive, and vendor relationships are re-established — through honest reporting and transparent governance replacing any uncertainty that caused the breakdown.
Our recoveries have delivered outcomes including: £4.1M annual savings and 30% reduction in manual effort (UKRI), £7M cost savings through programme restructuring (Bentley Systems/DoT), and enabling a £400M downstream sale (Capita Education/DfE).
Our recovery approach draws on 30 years of hands-on programme turnaround experience, refined across NHS, UK Government, Oracle Fusion ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Azure, ServiceNow, and major logistics and education programmes.
We use PRINCE2, MSP, MoR, Agile, and ITIL — not as dogma, but as proven frameworks applied to your specific situation. The result is a recovery that sticks.
Paul Bevan, Director of Engineering, Capita Software Division
We can typically begin an initial engagement — including a programme health check — within days of instruction. Early intervention is critical; the sooner we are involved, the more options are available to you and the quicker you are back on track.
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