You are the systems engineer responsible for the global implementation of a state-of-the-art (only deployed operationally at one other site in the world) identity access commercial solution which is needed for a sensitive but unclassified network to meet mission needs. It is your lucky day and as you are leaving the lunchroom, you are approached by the Deputy CIO who asks for a 3 minute brief on the project because he has heard that the project is in severe trouble in a number of technical areas and he is not familiar with the scope of the project. What can you convey in the 3 minutes to provide an accurate status? (Share with him the latest project status report that you are lucky enough to have with you.) 

To answer this question, document a one-page project status report for each of the following scenarios: 

Project is well and CIO expectation is worse than it really is. 

Project is bad and CIO expectation is aligned with status. 

Project is worse than the CIO’s bad expectation.