Project Recovery Plan Template Excel | Programme Health Check, Root Cause Analysis & Turnaround Action Plan | Red Project Rescue Kit

Taking over a programme that is already in trouble? This IT Program Recovery & Turnaround Kit gives you a calm, structured way to get a failing project back under control — diagnose it, fix the root causes, reset the stakeholders and rebuild a plan you can actually hit. Built by an IT programme manager, for the moment everyone is looking at you to turn it around.

★ WHAT YOU GET
• Start Here guide — what each tab is for and how to work the kit
• Recovery Health Check — rate scope, schedule, budget, quality, team, stakeholders, risk and governance with RAG, trend and evidence
• Root Cause Log — capture the real causes behind every red and amber, by category and severity
• Recovery Action Plan — turn each root cause into an owned, dated corrective action with status and RAG
• Stakeholder Reset — move each stakeholder from hostile/frustrated to supportive, with a re-engagement action
• Replan & Milestone Reset — revised milestones with old vs new date, variance in days and confidence
• Summary dashboard — live counts by health RAG, action status and root-cause severity (automatic formulas)
• Drop-down menus for RAG, severity, status, sentiment and confidence — consistent every time

★ HOW TO USE
1. Run the Recovery Health Check and rate every dimension honestly
2. Log the root causes behind each red and amber
3. Turn them into owned actions on the Recovery Action Plan
4. Plan your stakeholder reset and replan realistic dates
5. Work the plan — the Summary tab updates itself

★ PERFECT FOR
Programme and project managers, PMO leads, delivery managers, turnaround and recovery managers, and consultants who get parachuted into troubled IT or business-change programmes.

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★ INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
One .xlsx workbook, fully editable. Works in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice — no account or plugin needed. Example rows are included in grey italic; just type over them.

This template provides structure, not advice. It does not diagnose your programme or recommend decisions for you — you decide every rating, root cause and action.

Please note: because this is an instant digital download, no refunds, returns or exchanges are possible once the file has been downloaded. If anything is unclear, message me — I'm happy to help.