Tips on how to manage up? I’m staffed on a project with an underperforming PM. He’s a higher level than me but came in from industry so I have more experience. His performance has been poor on other projects too, which other PMs have warned me about. He’s constantly away on Zoom, takes hours to reply to messages, takes over a day to reply to partner requests, and has done pretty much zero work so it’s all fallen on me even tho we have equal staffing. I want to ensure project success. Any tips?

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Document the shortcomings before escalating so you have something specific to point to, like email threads, chat records, action item trackers, and other more objective sources of info. Simply claiming things like low performance will not be enough. Also come up with some proposed solutions, like more/different resourcing, or more partner attention in assigning work (to force the manager to do things themselves).

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Ask him if you can work with him on whatever side business he's running 📈

..But seriously, set up a regular touchpoint with him, and in your initial one mention where you could use his support. Or a team norming session where you both walk through your working preferences.

The only risk here is that you need to frame it in such a way that he doesn't feel his involvement is hand-holding, in order to keep your rating safe.

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Set up meetings on the day when he says he will have things ready so you can talk through it. Also, if you give too much runway he may catch on and escalate you saying that you’re not performing. It’s better to raise awareness with your lead and let them know you are working on the situation if you don’t want to the lead to step in.

Escalate

Sounds like he already has a bad rep based on your original comment

Def escalate

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