PMP Question #1352: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A project manager is leading the development of a mobile banking application using a hybrid approach. The team has been holding daily standup meetings each workday morning. Due to an unexpected issue, 50% of the team has to work from home. The bank's management directed the team not to have in-person daily standups. Various team members are complaining about this, slating that there is a lack of information sharing among the team. What should the project manager do?

Options

• ADelegate authority to the team members and ask them to submit weekly status reports instead.
• BPostpone the daily standups and ask the team members to update the project manager daily via
• CHold virtual daily standups each workday morning and use collaboration tools to manage project
• DAsk senior management for permission to hold in-person team meetings once each week.

Explanation

With a hybrid project team now working remotely due to management directive, and team members complaining about lack of information sharing, the project manager should implement virtual daily standups and use collaboration tools.

Common mistakes.

• A. Replacing daily standups with weekly status reports reduces communication frequency and agility, which can worsen information sharing problems in a hybrid approach.
• B. Postponing standups and having individual updates to the PM centralizes communication and removes the peer-to-peer information sharing that standups provide, leading to less team cohesion.
• D. Requesting permission for weekly in-person meetings goes against management's directive and doesn't address the daily need for information sharing or the current remote work situation.

Concept tested. Managing distributed agile teams and communication

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