As the project manager, how would you deal with senior management request to end the project 2 months early?

1- Increase fund.

2- Increase resources.

3- Fast tracking.

I'm with answer of A. Raffat Sallem >>

The situation is schedule compression which requires:

1- Reestimation for critical activities, to identify the activities with more reservs and do more effort to decrease or eleminate their risks , thereby these activities time will decrease.

2- Assign the  remaining activities on the critical path then crash  by increasing resourses or fast track them .

3- You can change the source doing the critical activities to be more experienced, thus time dcreases.

4- Purchsing instead of creating part of critical activities will decrease time.

5- Use trend analysis  for critical activities to eleminate the need for test.

6- Cut scope , but be careful and get client approval first . 

7- Lower the quality for critical activities but up to accepted limits and only after client approval.

8 - If nothing above works , then use over time for team working on critical activities.

Project Manager will have to walk back the path and redraw PERT and phase out finishing work. He will be required to work more with plugging commercial gap which is more of created situation in which the contractors directly relates work to payment schedule. All Deliverable reaching or is yet to reach should be again redrawn.

• As a responsible Project Manager asses the priority of the project on which we working its classified in different categories as follow.

• Customer priority (if project of external customer).                                              

  if the project of external customer, then as a "Project Manager", i will call a meeting with my immediate boss, senior Manager HR and IR & A and Directors Accounts & Finance,internal Auditors and also invites the head of store and Procurement department, to discuss the critical points about completion of this project earlier from their assign tenure which is designed by the company during planning also discuss the increase in         sources like increase in petty cash, increase in material, easy and timely access of material for this site, requirement of increase in manpower if necessary at require site.Prepare daily job assigning plan and also prepare the project completion summary on daily bases and discuss with my immediate boss and other seniors which are invites in this regard for meeting.                                                               

Nicely answered by Mr. Raafat Sallam, I echo with him.

1. first , meet the project team and identify alternatives 

2. Assess  the impact of the change to all aspects of the project

3. Identify options like compressing the schedule

4. Create a change request

5. Get the change request approved internally

6. Perform integrated change control

7.  

Try to adjust the small and independent activities in float duration of large activities.