Assess Impact Quickly: Identify which areas are affected and prioritize essential fixes. Determine your minimum viable product. Communicate Transparently: Keep stakeholders updated on delays and revised timelines to ensure everyone is informed. Allocate Resources Smartly: Shift focus to tasks that aren’t impacted by the issues while working to resolve the technical problems.

Whilst the ability to resolve technical issues depends on the specifics of the situation, in principle there are several skills you should exercise to ensure project goals are met effectively. Firstly, develop strong time management skills. You cannot hope to keep on track if you are not goal focused. Next: be creative. Creative problem solving and upgrading of job specific technical skills can also be essential to enable greater efficiency in meeting your project goal. Finally, seek constructive feedback and navigate workplace dynamics to ensure a positive environment for all involved throughout the process and the ability to take corrective actions.

Usually yes, but it may require some crewtive thinking, depending on what your project goals are. If timelines weren't a critical factor then there's no reason you can't still achieve desired levels of quality, resourcing, opportunity management etc. And even if there is a hard deadline you can adjust your scope, lower quality or increase resources, for example. This is why a business case is so important; so everyone understands the tolerances.