I am the lead delivering a 3 month project with a small team, totally out of the blue towards the end of the project my bosses boss decided he didn’t like the direction we were taking and with no feedback or opportunity to correct I was cut off at the knees. Can I salvage this?

I work with apps and websites. I recently joined a new company and over the past few 2 months have been leading a team to deliver a project.

Things have been going great, I’ve been getting very positive feedback from my business stakeholders and my manager, we’re on time for delivery and my team is working well.

About 3 weeks ago my bosses boss (based overseas but in town for the week) comes up to me and asks to be kept close to this project because he thinks it will be an important one. So I setup checkins with him, and with his right hand man, and agree to send him a weekly update on progress.

Fast forward to yesterday and my manager puts in a meeting with me, the project team, and another lead on my level that’s based in the same country as the big boss. Turns out the big boss is unhappy with the visual direction the project has taken, and rather than approach me directly he’s brought on another lead to take over and asked my manager to sort it out.

This is without a doubt the most humiliating and demoralising situation I’ve ever faced in my career. I setup all the right checks and balances to ensure I was getting feedback from all important stakeholders, and despite that at no stage was any feedback given to me, there was no opportunity for me to correct the course (even though I could have easily pivoted), there was no acknowledgement that the last few weeks of the project were dedicated to visual uplift and this likely would’ve resolved the stakeholders issues.

I’ve just had my first project at a new company ripped out from underneath me and the person that’s taking it over is an arrogant dickhead. I don’t know how to react. I want to up and leave because I can’t picture myself having a positive relationship with these people after such a shit experience.

Is there any way for me to save face and save my professional relationships in this situation?



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