Turnaround Management Tool
Shutdown Playbook Matrix
The complete turnaround lifecycle — from scope freeze to lessons learned. Click any phase to see who owns what, key deliverables, and where things go wrong.
Tap a role to see their full profile
7 Roles
Who's in the room — and what they own
Watch For These
The three failures that sink every turnaround
If the scope isn’t frozen, the turnaround is already over budget
Every “while we’re in there” addition that bypasses the change request process pushes the critical path, inflates contractor costs, and creates safety exposure from rushed, unplanned work. Scope freeze isn’t a suggestion — it’s the single most important discipline in turnaround management.
If you skip the readiness review, Day 1 becomes the readiness review
Gaps in materials, incomplete work packs, and unqualified contractors don’t disappear because you didn’t check for them. They surface on the shop floor at maximum cost. A formal readiness review at T−2 months is your last chance to fix problems cheaply.
If the post-turnaround review doesn’t produce action items with owners, it didn’t happen
A review that concludes with “we’ll do better next time” changes nothing. Every finding needs a specific action, an owner, and a due date. Organizations that treat the review as optional repeat the same failures every cycle — and wonder why turnaround costs keep climbing.
Go Deeper
The chart shows the phases.
The book builds the system.
Fix the System, Not the People covers shutdown planning, readiness reviews, execution discipline, and the post-turnaround learning loop — with playbooks, case studies, and the leadership behaviors that make turnarounds predictable.