[cpeterso]

A corollary of managing passive-aggressive team members is to not hide bad project news from upset management. A project in trouble is unlikely to get back on track on its own. Management wants to help but needs to be able to trust your status reports.

Likewise, your job is to ship the project and you need your dev team's trust to do that, so you should look for new solutions and risk mitigations when raising project problems to management, not pointing blame or throwing people under the bus.