Need some advice. First time in a consulting role. I was assigned a lead to a project with a tight timeline (even client agrees timeline is aggressive). I'm the only person on project to do requirements, analysis, and delivery. I need to tell my partner asap that I need to extend the timeline. How do I go about it without seeming incompetent? I'm less than a month into this company so I'm still trying to prove myself.

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Lay out the facts. Don't tell them about problems. Let them know the impact of their timeline. Provide options and alternatives and let them know the impacts of reducing scope, timeline, and budget. This stuff happens all the time. Your job is to manage people's expectations and you do that by using logic and "showing your work" on how you arrived at it. Strong and constant communication is your biggest shield.

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I'll add that the goal is to let them come to their own conclusions that you steer them toward. As you show them how you arrived at the facts, they'll either dispute your facts or naturally come to the same conclusion as you.

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Show him a project plan. And lay out why the current timeline doesn’t work. Then propose a new timeline.

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