If your project is over budget, behind schedule or changing scope, Dante provides the leadership and expertise to salvage it. We bring a reputation for delivering unmatched services in these high-pressure situations, where we work as an advisor or assume partial or complete management of the project.

The Dante approach to a Project Recovery engagement begins with a Project Assessment. Key business requirements and the operating environment are reviewed and compared to the application architecture. Code and implementation details are also assessed. Finally, we provide a recovery plan which details how to improve the performance of the project while ensuring timely delivery, quality assurance, and security.

Once the project assessment is complete, the next step is the replanning of the project based on the recovery plan. The successful execution of the recovery plan will put your project back on track.

Time after time, Dante´s clients have requested our Project Recovery services in difficult situations, earning our reputation as a consulting company that succeeds where others have failed.

Project Assessment

A Project Assessment is typically requested by a client who is performing due diligence prior to a project reaching a critical milestone or when a project is underperforming. The assessment covers three areas: software, hardware, and support policy and procedure.

Following Dante risk assessment procedures, we focus on the technical and functional details of the design and implementation of the project. We work closely with our client performing a gap analysis to identify the critical assessment criteria, which might include:

In addition to the evaluation of your technical and functional details, Dante also focuses on your operation readiness. An often overlooked aspect of a project, our assessment ensures that all details of deploying your project have been addressed:

• Are all your impacted internal systems ready for deployment?
• Have all the appropriate communications been extended to any external systems?
• Have all your users been properly trained?
• Do you have a production support process and team in place?

Dante´s final report evaluates the implementation against the assessment criteria and highlights items that should be addressed before or after the application goes into service.

Project Turnaround

Often, a project gets into trouble before it is implemented. Somewhere between the planning and the delivery, it bogs down and begins to strain against its cost and time estimates. The benefits that initially justified the project are in danger of being lost.

Whatever the situation, Dante has extensive experience in rescuing projects which are at risk for any reason. Our turnaround teams have time and again acted quickly to rein in a runaway project or optimize the performance of an underperforming application.

This is what we do to stabilize - and even accelerate - critical development efforts:

• We perform assessments to identify critical issues and trace them back to their origins.
• We create alternatives and work with our clients to identify the resources necessary to resolve the issues.
• We apply proven project management techniques to regain/maintain control.
• We staff the project appropriately to perform the necessary corrective actions.

Dante´s depth of experience and collaborative management techniques have provided an invaluable project turnaround service to many clients.