PMP · Question #822
A project manager realizes that the team members are new to the hybrid approach and do not value standup meetings. Team members often arrive late, digress into solutioning, or skip the meetings altoge
The correct answer is C. Engage the project team in implementing and improving key aspects of the standup meetings.. To improve poorly functioning standup meetings, the project manager should involve the team in defining and improving the meeting's structure and purpose. This fosters ownership and commitment, making the meetings more effective.
Question
Options
- AAsk the product owner to remove team members who do not comply with standup meeting rules.
- BInclude a daily brainstorming session in the standup meetings to resolve pending issues.
- CEngage the project team in implementing and improving key aspects of the standup meetings.
- DSend a daily retrospective report to all team members instead of holding standup meetings.
How the community answered
(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B9% (3)
- C85% (29)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
To improve poorly functioning standup meetings, the project manager should involve the team in defining and improving the meeting's structure and purpose. This fosters ownership and commitment, making the meetings more effective.
Asking the product owner to remove team members is an extreme, demotivating, and disempowering measure that does not address the underlying issue of team engagement or understanding of standup value.
Including daily brainstorming in standup meetings would exacerbate the issue of 'digressing into solutioning,' making the meetings longer and deviating from their primary purpose of quick status updates and impediment identification.
Engaging the project team in implementing and improving key aspects of the standup meetings is a core principle of agile and servant leadership, promoting team ownership and self-organization. By involving the team in setting norms, defining the agenda, and identifying how to make the meetings valuable, the project manager empowers them to create a process they value and are more likely to adhere to, directly addressing the lack of value and participation issues.
Sending a daily retrospective report instead of holding standup meetings eliminates the real-time, synchronous communication and collaboration benefits of standups, potentially hindering immediate issue identification and team cohesion.
Concept tested: Agile team empowerment and meeting facilitation
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Zlatan X.Jul 5, 2026C is the answer. Standup discipline is a team-owned process, not a governance hammer, so engaging the team in defining and improving the ceremony builds shared accountability for benefits realization. Option A escalates to removal before any coaching occurs, B turns a status sync into solutioning which is the exact dysfunction the stem describes, and D abandons the cadence altogether. From a program perspective, self-organizing teams that refine their own ceremonies are the interdependency glue that keeps component delivery aligned with portfolio outcomes.
Carlos M.Jun 22, 2026C is the answer. Team is new to hybrid so you coach and engage them on making the standups work rather than punishing or working around the problem. Anyone know if the exam expects you to address the solutioning tangent separately or if getting team buyup covers it?
Yuki V.Jun 29, 2026Confirmed C on my exam last month. D is tempting because it sounds efficient, but you cannot replace a standup with a one-way email dump, and B turns a 15-minute sync into a rabbit hole.
Zlatan X.Jul 2, 2026Good call, and the governance angle here is that the standup exists to surface interdependencies between components, which a one-way email actively suppresses.
Mateus R.Jul 5, 2026Picking B here, folks. Think of it like a morning huddle at a diner where the staff also brainstorms the lunch special while they are at it. You get status plus problem-solving in one shot. New teams that do not see the value in standups need a reason to show up. If the meeting actually helps them resolve pending issues instead of just reporting what they did yesterday, they will stop skipping it. Sure, purists say standups are not for solutioning, but a hybrid team can blend brainstorming right in.
Carlos M.Jul 6, 2026C is correct here. Standups are for quick status and blockers, not problem-solving, so you keep them short and park any deeper discussions for a followup.