Hello Partners, Monday morning question -
When is the right time to inform clients that PM on the team will be going on parental leave once the existing project contract ends. However it’s highly likely that the project will get an extension for a quarter or so? Should client be notified before identifying a backfill or after identifying a backfill candidate? How long an advance heads up is ideal? A month? 15 days? Trying to avoid client going to another vendor or internal resourcing.

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Find the backfill first. Don’t go in with a problem but rather a solution

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Find the backfill, start training the backfill with some easy handoffs/transitions and introduce the backfill into some client meetings as support to the team. Then when the extension is real, say oh btw congrats to so and so for their recent baby and backfill has been here for an easy transition since we know how vital this extension is.

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