Can I talk to you about the report?

So I talked to the Director about the report I had been worried about. He came by my desk, sat down, and we went over what stored procedure we were going to use and how the thing should be layed out, and I pointed out a tricky pivot table like section that was possible technical snag. We were in agreeance pretty much for all of this.

Turns out the team lead misunderstood what the issues were. Maybe he doesn't understand Reporting Services well enough.

It's all good though it does disturb me that if management gets an idea in their head they can wreck the whole project real quick...

That may be an overstatement. The project manager is a pragmatic guy and so is the DBA. And everyone wants this to work out if only to keep their jobs..

Another nice thing is that I'm not even working on it. The guy in the next cube is. So that's happening too. Nice all around.