Re:Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off th...
by ChuckMcM on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:57PM
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This is such a hard question because it is intimately intertwined with the culture of the organization in which the activity is occurring.
Bottom line, stay true to your own sense of integrity and be honest with whomever asks for your assessment of the situation.
I agree with the other comments that suggest you have conversations about your management and that you journal your progress and concerns.
The cultural question is around what happens when it is obvious the schedule is going to slip. In some organizations the group looks for someone take the heat and they heap a world of pain on that person. Generally that is the person who doesn't have any record to back up their assertion that they told everyone else it was not going to work. In other groups there will be a great ceremony of replanning and another unrealistic deadline will be pronounced and the cycle will simply repeat. Sometimes organizations will want to figure out how they got the schedule wrong and apply fixes (your journal will be invaluable there).
Bottom line, stay true to your own sense of integrity and be honest with whomever asks for your assessment of the situation.
I agree with the other comments that suggest you have conversations about your management and that you journal your progress and concerns.
The cultural question is around what happens when it is obvious the schedule is going to slip. In some organizations the group looks for someone take the heat and they heap a world of pain on that person. Generally that is the person who doesn't have any record to back up their assertion that they told everyone else it was not going to work. In other groups there will be a great ceremony of replanning and another unrealistic deadline will be pronounced and the cycle will simply repeat. Sometimes organizations will want to figure out how they got the schedule wrong and apply fixes (your journal will be invaluable there).