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Project Recovery Plan

Define an evidence-based plan to recover agreed project objectives after a material deviation.

How to use this template

This Word template contains prepared headings, tables, project fields and completion notes. Add your information, review the completed document and remove the notes before issue.

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How to use this template

When you need it

Prepare this plan when current forecasts show that important project objectives will be missed and leadership needs an evidence-based choice of recovery measures, with realistic costs, constraints, responsibilities, and decision points.

What it helps you decide

It turns pressure to recover into an executable response, making the causes, selected approach, resource implications, commercial treatment, residual risks, and conditions for leaving recovery mode explicit to decision makers.

How to complete it

  1. Define Recovery need and target and investigate Causes and constraints using the current forecast, workface evidence, and unresolved dependencies affecting the delivery outcome.
  2. Compare Recovery options and document Selected approach and assumptions, then establish Recovery actions and milestones with realistic resource and interface requirements for implementation.
  3. Address Cost and contractual treatment, define Monitoring and intervention, and set Residual risks and exit criteria that demonstrate whether the recovery strategy is working.

Who prepares and reviews it

The project manager normally leads with planning, construction, engineering, procurement, cost, and commercial specialists. Package owners confirm feasibility, while sponsors and contractual authorities approve resource, baseline, or commercial decisions within their actual remit.

A mistake to avoid

Compressing dates without checking resources, workface access, technical sequence, and contractual treatment creates an aspirational schedule that may increase cost without recovering the project.

Illustrative example

Illustrative example: late structural steel threatens enclosure before winter. The plan compares resequencing, partial deliveries, and additional erection capacity against access and crane constraints. Management selects phased deliveries with targeted resources, authorizes the relevant expenditure, and tracks specific milestones before deciding whether further intervention is needed.

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Document contents

  • Recovery need and target
  • Causes and constraints
  • Recovery options
  • Selected approach and assumptions
  • Recovery actions and milestones
  • Cost and contractual treatment
  • Monitoring and intervention
  • Residual risks and exit criteria

Required inputs

  • Project name, location, company, document number and revision
  • Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles

Practical tools.
Professional judgment.

Confirm the adopted edition, local amendments, National Annex where relevant, and contract requirements.

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