The Back from Red Blog, is a popular project management blog which brings together thirty years of program and project management experience from Todd C. Williams. Back from Red started in August 2009 and gains its title from Todd’s experience in recovering “red projects” .”From this experience, I have developed a process to make recoveries more efficient and prevent their reoccurrence. This experience provides a wealth of knowledge on avoiding project failure.”
The Back From Red Blog focuses on the reasons for project failure. The subjects range from technology to leadership, from teams to the individual. They are intending to be thought provoking. Each article is written to provide value to every reader. Even if you do not agree with the content, the approach should make you think. The blog is not industry specific, although the examples are usually high-tech.
The Back from Red blog is aimed at VP and C Level Directors, Project Managers and team members. Todd shares his experience in weekly blog posts and enjoys the whole writing process including the research prior to each post, his blogging approach has brought many avid readers and fans.
Todd describes himself as focused on project audit and turn-around, he looks at projects that are failing or in trouble, identifies their real problems, drills down to the root causes and applies the corrective actions to get them moving again. He saves organizations between 500,000 and three million dollars (US) per engagement. Recently he signed a contract with AMACOM books to publish the book Back From Red: Recovering Failing Projects. He wrote the book on project recovery.
Back from Red’s most popular blog piece to date:
And Todd’s top three personal favourites:
One More Project Team Member: The Doctor
CIOs Are Fired For Failing to Provide Business Value
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