What can you actually do to salvage a project going down in flames?
I’m a new manager, completely do not have the support I need, and it seems as though every single team/person our team relies on to get things done on time has dropped the ball. All the issues are now coming to us. I don’t have the experience to navigate this all alone, and I am not getting the necessary support as all of my managers are swamped with other (to them, more important) issues at the same client.

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First of all clearly define the situation on paper.

Here is the situation:
issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3

Options to resolve
1. reduce the scope
2. extend the timeline
3. get more resources
4. other

It is your job to identify the risk and notify your manager

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Building on your options, for turnarounds, I’ve seen the “STAR” framework used quite often.

Scope: Using MoSCoW to reprioritise your scope items.

Time: Can the project timeline shift? If not, review how you can optimise the current timeline through sequencing.

Approach: Process improvements for doing the task faster, cheaper and / or better.

Resourcing: Re-examining the # and quality of resources.

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At our company there are lots of internal processes when things will not achieve their original financials, you should start asking about that process. And also do what cloud practice director 1 said. Start managing all these open dependencies in a document.

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I’ve kept my direct manager up to date on issues each week, but have not gotten any sense of urgency/escalation from them no matter how much I bring things up. Will definitely send an email to have a paper trail that everything was brought up early - thank you.
My manager also continuously asks “what do you need from me?” and I honestly don’t know how to answer because we don’t have enough time to upskill any new people and at the same time we don’t have enough hands. Need him to escalate issues in meetings with the clients, but he doesn’t have time to attend any of those meetings. It’s just a struggle of a situation

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Do you have a coach? Your manager is not providing you with support needed. I would escalate higher

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