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#13. Replan, and replace a bad date with one the team is confident about. Depending upon the business reason for the original date, this may actually be preferable to the unintended consequences of a lot of the other corrective actions you suggest. If you're going to slip, take it all in one gulp. The weekly schedule slip of yet another week is a morale killer.

#2 and #5 (adding and/or swapping people) goes against the old Fred Brooks admonition, "adding people to a late project only makes it later." The new people have to learn, and while they're learning, the slow everybody else down.

McConnell (Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art) and many, many other works warn against the perils of schedule compression, by whatever means.