A team member is stressed due to a heavy workload, while other team members have some slack in their schedules. How should the team lead address this?

Question

Options

• AInform management, and suggest that additional resources may be required
• BDiscuss the issue with the team in the daily stand up meetings
• CMeet personally with the stressed team member to brainstorm ways to better manage their time
• DBegin tracking the stressed team member's tasks in a separate backlog for additional analysis

• A
  6% (3)
• B
  73% (36)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  18% (9)

Explanation

The daily stand-up is designed precisely for this: surfacing impediments and enabling the self-organizing team to rebalance work. Other team members with slack can volunteer to help, and the team collectively decides how to redistribute tasks. Escalating to management (A) bypasses the team's self-organization capability. A private meeting (C) may address the symptom but misses the team's ability to solve it together. Creating a separate backlog (D) adds process overhead without resolving the immediate stress or imbalance.

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