You said “negative success” today during your project status meeting.  Clowns wear suits now.

• Over budget – check
• Missed deadline – check
• Failed to deliver required scope – check

Sounds like the trifecta of failure no matter what business you are in.

You could have alerted your stakeholders early in the project that you had problems.  Fail fast and correct used to be your mantra.  But now red has become such a punitive color.  No one likes to see red in a status meeting.  Yellow shows you see the potential of trouble and green shows you are the master of your domain.  Real trouble is best shared with no one.

Your co-drones in the meeting were supportive.  As you presented your slides of obfuscated failure they asked the right questions to indicate participation without contributing any substance. 

Your failure will never be seen since you hide it in the open.  You clever drone.