Dependency Failure Response Plan
React when something you depend on slips.
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Plan a response to a slipping dependency. The dependency (team, vendor, decision, delivery): [DEPENDENCY]. Our work that depends on it: [DEPENDENT_WORK]. Current delay and likely range: [DELAY]. Analyse the impact on schedule using float, and list options: re-sequence work, parallel work with assumptions, interim solutions, escalate, or re-baseline. For each option give the cost, risk, and decision needed. Draft an escalation message to the dependency owner with a clear request and date, and a note to my sponsor. Create a recovery timeline and a trigger for moving to the next option. Include a log of decisions taken and assumptions made. Add a short list of questions to ask the other party to learn the real reason for the delay and what they need from us, and a template for agreeing a revised date with a confidence level. Provide a method for checking whether the delay is the first of a pattern, and a note about maintaining good relations while being clear about the impact.
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