Forensic project management and health checks

Articles

Project DNA 
DNA is rarely out of the news. DNA solves crimes that no other technique can touch, while promising even more dramatic advances in healthcare. Is there anything equivalent in the project world? 
Geoff Vincent, CITI 
2007

Forensic project management
The project lies bleeding on the floor. There is shock and disbelief – a feeling of, “How could this happen?” With the passage of time these emotions often harden into a search for culprits, “What went wrong?” and more vengefully, “Who is to blame?” Now is the time to call in the forensic experts.
Dr Christopher Worsley, CITI
2006

White papers

Project health check: getting others to do it right 
Like a well-person clinic the health check is focused on providing help in a non-threatening environment. It can be initiated by the manager or the sponsor and concentrates on the risks to successful project completion, and how well the project is coping with them. It recognises that project success is dependent on the project environment as well as those matters directly under the project manager’s control. By maintaining this positive perspective and focus on delivery, the health check is distinctly not an audit of project plans and activities, but a co-operative process of driving to project health. 
Dr Christopher Worsley & Norman Ebbs, CITI
2002