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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay - so you stick to very, very factual, provable, objective statements. Your post here is rife with speculation (which is obviously fine for DCUM) but don’t include ANY of that. Project will fail if she’s not moved off? Speculation. She’s incompetent? Speculation. Say things like this:

Task A needs to be finished by Date for the project to be successful. It has three roughly even stages, and we’re still on stage one, so we are not on track to meet our deadline.

Task B is complete. However, it does not meet part Y of the requirements. So in order for B to work as planned, it will need to be redone.

Etc, etc. Make it very clear that as it stands now, you are not on tract to successfully complete the project.

Do not say ANYTHING that isn’t factually provable, but do not sugar coat. Details are your friend here. Do NOT worry about blame. People aren’t dumb, they’ll be able to see your competence. Trust that. Give the managers lots of space to ask questions, and if asked directly “well, whose responsibility was Task B” don’t hedge - say Larlo.

If you need to propose solutions, you do so to address the specific issue. “We need someone with more skills in Whatever to redo part B.” Not “we need Larlo off this project.”[/quote]

THIS IS GOLD. [/quote]

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