Something you might want to try is to agree on the metrics and
statistics that you are going to measure projects/performance, etc.
on. You could push for using statistics for which the data is clear
and unambiguous and that cannot be manipulated too much. Try to set
an example by publishing your data and stats to a common group (incl
your bosses) in regular intervals. Once you start doing that, you can
push for comparable metrics from everybody including you-know-who.
cheers!
Aravind

Scott Berkun wrote:

Here’s this week’s situation:

I’ve noticed in the last weeks that one of the new leads in my group
tends to fudge facts - He makes up statistical correlations and
repeats them often enough that people, including our bosses, take
them as fact.

The trick that defuses my complaints is that he’s clever enough to
fudge facts in the way people want things to be - making it harder to
refute him in the moment. I’ve voiced polite complaints before, but
he’s continued to do it and no one else has said anything.

How do I confront him, or my superiors, about this without it
seemingly like I’m jealous or working behind his back?

- Signed, Frustrated between lies and statistics (FBLS)
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Posted by Conrad Walton in Project Management