How to fail

[NibblyPig]

Keep calm, carry on invoicing, adopt a CYA policy of documenting how the fail is not your fault and you warned everyone.

[TheFaQQer]

It must be frustrating to find that everyone around you is so much worse than you are.

Keep your chin up.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

It must be frustrating to find that everyone around you is so much worse than you are, especially as they had mistakenly assumed they might be able to learn something from a, relatively, high paid contract resource.

[TheFaQQer]

FTFY

Could you add, just for fun, perhaps, a few, more commas?

[MrMarkyMark]

Could you add, just for fun, perhaps, a few, more commas?

I actually removed a few, so it would fit better in with your writing style

[LondonManc]

Could you add, just for fun, perhaps, a few, more commas?

P,r,o,b,a,b,l,y, ,n,o,t

[suityou01]

Keep calm, carry on invoicing, adopt a CYA policy of documenting how the fail is not your fault and you warned everyone.

Every week I email a report out to the PM(s), and various others. This contains :

My update
List of outstanding questions to be answered, by whom, when I expect an answer by.
List of outstanding dependencies, who is on the hook and when.
My RAID log.

It is very funny when in the course of the week they panic when they realise something is amiss, come a running and I retort "You don't read my weekly reports do you?"

CYA IS my middle name.

[darmstadt]

My RAID log.

Had to check that one out, what a bunch of old bollocks. If everyone on the team is savvy enough then they should know all this information. I expect that this is why all the projects that I work on come in on time and budget as we don't have PM's, Prince, Agile, ISO, crappitty-crap-crap crap stuff buggering it all up with their nonsensical keep themselves in job tosh. Presumably you also put stuff in like:

Risks:
- Some team members not at work tomorrow due to evening out causing delay in project
Assumptions:
- Assuming that they all had a lot of beer followed by ring tingling curry
Issues:
- Montezuma's Revenge if they did
Dependencies:
- Everything

Do things like adverse weather get put in as well which means you need to have the Weather Channel on all the time? Or do you have a news channel in case of public transport or utilities strikes, honestly, the things people come up with to justify their job! Bunch of Arse!

[MrMarkyMark]

P,r,o,b,a,b,l,y, ,n,o,t

That must be the "special" brand of Northern humour , we keep "hearing" about

[suityou01]

How do you manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies then?