Following is a mini$-$case from practice. Analyze the case and provide five recommendations for the IT department.

Your project team has finished gathering the requirements and developing the solution design. Your team is broken into two main groups: The first group consists of the project manager, business analysts, and management and is located in the United States. The second group consists of the development and QA teams and they are located in India.

The WBS was developed based on estimates from the teams in India. The development team agreed to provide daily updates to you about progress against the WBS to make sure that the project's milestones are going to be met:

However, by the time the development team got close to the first milestone, it became obvious that they were behind, even though their daily updates indicated that they were on track. In addition, the team adopted a different design approach than the one agreed upon at the beginning of the project.

The lack of meaningful updates from the development team along with a different design track has jeopardized the whole project by rendering the entire plan obsolete. Your team is now at risk of not delivering the project.

What do you do$?$ What is the impact to cost$,$ schedule, and performance?