You're a new project manager at an up-and-coming cybersecurity firm, which is about to launch a new enterprise software suite that is projected to take the company to new profit heights. You've been assigned a critical component of the suite and have to see it to successful completion. You have a team of four people, and a hard project deadline of two months from today.

The sponsor of the project wants you to present a schedule for this project at the end of next week. BUT, two of the key project members are on vacation next week and will not be available to provide estimates and other inputs to the draft schedule.

1. Describe what your next steps are and how you execute these steps in order to deliver in two weeks.
2. Describe how the delivery of information will be presented to the sponsor (do you tell the sponsor about your lack of accurate information, for example?)
3. Remember - "time is money" and your estimate has to be as accurate as possible. How will you validate your data?