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I got tasked with essentially project managing a doomed project that the boss had already made all the tech decisions & promises on. Nothing was built but we had customers with firm dates for go-live. It was clearly not going to work, and not be on time. I pointed some of this out.

He then asked me to do weekly RAG status for stakeholders. So I did and it all slowly turned red with no easy remediation.

He did two things that made me realize it was time to go:

First, when I suggested that "if I report red status all year and then it doesn't complete on time, but I kept everyone well informed - am I going to be rewarded end of year".. to which I got nervous laughter response.

Second, he started talking about "what if we change the definition of done", such that we just start marking things amber/green because like.. well some of it is running in QA or hey its like 70% done, so why not mark it done?

Just seemed like he handed me the keys to a sinking boat as he stepped off in the last life boat.