Re:Push Back (Score 1)

["If you refuse to offer more staff, we can only reasonably expect to complete around this date", and don't flinch.] For a major update with so few people, I'd get a bid on the job from a top website company, and make sure they know that they may end up with 100% of the load or a smaller part, or the project may not go forward at all. You get an independant cost/schedule/man-hours opinion you can use to get the support needed internal or external, or have it scrapped. If you wind up doing it in-house, you still have the original bid to show how you stack up against outsourcing. If you get some management support for using external resources, then you can offload a portion to meet your schedule and budget. With any of the external options, don't forget to include an internal project manager and whatver else you need for internal support - interfacing will take a lot of hours.