PMP · Question #1356
A team is assembled for a new project that will be using a predictive approach through requirements gathering and an agile approach for development and testing. Not everyone on the team has experience
The correct answer is C. Met with the team, allowed team members to make decisions about what to do, and established. For a hybrid project where some team members are new to agile and the schedule is slipping due to unclear agile structure, the project manager should have proactively met with the team to establish clear working agreements and decision-making processes.
Question
A team is assembled for a new project that will be using a predictive approach through requirements gathering and an agile approach for development and testing. Not everyone on the team has experience working in agile. The schedule has started slipping due to the unclear structure of the agile development approach. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
Options
- ASet up weekly status meetings to review team progress, prepared weekly status reports to track
- BEstablished daily standup meetings to track and report on team progress and escalated delays to
- CMet with the team, allowed team members to make decisions about what to do, and established
- DConducted routine meetings and identified team members who are under performing.
How the community answered
(21 responses)- A5% (1)
- B5% (1)
- C76% (16)
- D14% (3)
Why each option
For a hybrid project where some team members are new to agile and the schedule is slipping due to unclear agile structure, the project manager should have proactively met with the team to establish clear working agreements and decision-making processes.
Weekly status meetings and reports are more characteristic of a predictive approach and are not sufficient to establish a clear agile structure or empower an agile team.
While daily standups are crucial in agile, simply establishing them doesn't address the root cause of unclear structure or lack of agile experience; it's a mechanism, not the foundational team-building action.
To avoid confusion and ensure effective agile adoption, the project manager should have facilitated early team meetings to establish working agreements, empower team members to make decisions within the agile framework, and clearly define the agile structure and processes. This proactive approach fosters self-organization and clarity, especially when the team has varying levels of agile experience.
Conducting routine meetings and identifying underperforming team members is a reactive measure for performance management, not a proactive strategy to establish a clear agile structure or onboard a team new to agile.
Concept tested: Agile team formation and working agreements
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Community Discussion
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Mei-Ling H.Jun 20, 2026C is correct. The key phrase is "not everyone has experience working in agile", so the PM should have met with the team to let them self-organize and establish their own process, which is what agile teams do. A and B sound like tracking solutions but they miss the root cause, which is that the team never agreed on how to run the agile approach in the first place.
Toby R.Jun 28, 2026C is right but the option text cuts off, saw this on exam last week.
Lena V.Jun 26, 2026C is correct because when agile experience is lacking and structure is unclear, the PM coaches the team through self-organization and collaborative decision-making rather than imposing top-down tracking. A and B both push you toward traditional command-and-control habits that fight the agile mindset the scenario is testing. Anyone know if the exam consistently treats "let the team decide their approach" as the right call even when the schedule is actively slipping, or does that flip when there is a fixed deadline?
Carlos M.Jul 5, 2026Got C on my exam last month. The key is the team lacks agile experience so the PM needed to guide them on how agile works and let them self-organize, not just throw status meetings at the problem.
Lena V.Jul 7, 2026Right call, but the exam also expects you to know that servant leadership kicks in before the first sprint even starts, so look for answer options mentioning coaching or facilitating during sprint zero, not just during execution.