A senior team member feels underutilized. What should the agile practitioner do?

Question

Options

• ATransfer the senior member to another team that will more fully utilize their skill set.
• BConduct a performance evaluation to determine whether or not this member is a team player.
• CEncourage the project team to involve the senior member in more project activities.
• DAsk the functional manager to determine the best course of action.

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  82% (27)
• D
  9% (3)

Explanation

Agile teams are self-organizing, and the agile practitioner's role is to facilitate and enable the team - not to impose top-down solutions. Encouraging the team to involve the senior member more directly leverages the team's own agency to solve the problem. Option A (transfer) is a drastic, irreversible action that should not be taken without substantial investigation. Option B (performance evaluation) is a traditional management tool misaligned with agile principles and treats the symptom as a performance problem when it's actually a utilization problem. Option D (going to the functional manager) bypasses the team and undermines self-organization. Option C empowers the team to self-correct.

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