I can empathise. I am in a similar situation: after months of development and me (amongst others) banging on about how we are giong to be waving at the deadline

I can empathise. I am in a similar situation: after months of development and me (amongst others) banging on about how we are giong to be waving at the deadline as it whooshes past. TPTB have finally stood up took note, and are now getting their asses in gear over how to sort this. I ensured we kept burndown charts, measures of productivity and efficiency. We then used these to do projections on where we would finish based on optimisitc/average/pessimistic figures.Do this on an ongoing basis and hopefully people will realise sooner rather than later whats going to happen. Oh and ensure your governance is in place. Make sure reporting to TPTB is regular and as close to warts and all as you can keep it. That way if things blow up and people start pointing fingers there's lots of information to back you up!