PMP · Question #948
A project manager is leading a virtual IT project with a remote team. A team member tells the project manager that they do not know if they can finish on time because they are unaware of the other…
The correct answer is B. Host weekly meetings with the entire team to improve communication. To resolve a remote team member's lack of awareness of others' progress, the project manager should host weekly meetings with the entire team to improve overall communication and visibility.
Question
A project manager is leading a virtual IT project with a remote team. A team member tells the project manager that they do not know if they can finish on time because they are unaware of the other team members' progress. What can the project manager do to resolve this conflict?
Options
- ACommunicate by email with each team member to assign the tasks.
- BHost weekly meetings with the entire team to improve communication.
- CAsk the team that is having the problem to follow the project plan.
- DSchedule weekly meetings with each team member.
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A4% (1)
- B79% (19)
- C4% (1)
- D13% (3)
Why each option
To resolve a remote team member's lack of awareness of others' progress, the project manager should host weekly meetings with the entire team to improve overall communication and visibility.
Communicating by email for task assignment provides individual directives but does not offer the real-time, collective visibility of progress across the team that a synchronous meeting would provide.
For remote teams, regular synchronous communication, such as weekly team meetings, is crucial for fostering transparency, allowing team members to share progress updates, discuss challenges, and collectively maintain awareness of the project's overall status. This directly addresses the issue of a team member being unaware of others' progress and promotes team cohesion.
Simply telling the team member to 'follow the project plan' dismisses their legitimate concern about the lack of visibility into real-time progress, which is a common challenge in remote settings, and offers no solution.
Scheduling weekly one-on-one meetings provides individual updates but does not cultivate a shared understanding of team progress or encourage collaborative problem-solving among all team members effectively.
Concept tested: Virtual team communication and collaboration
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/manage-remote-and-hybrid-teams
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Community Discussion
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Fatima Z.May 21, 2026B is your winner here, and the memory hook is WEB: Weekly Entire-team Banter. When a virtual team feels blind to each other's progress, the fix is group visibility, not a pile of one-on-one side chats or a cold email blast.
Dervla O.May 23, 2026WEB is a decent hook but the real tell in the stem is "blind to each other" which points you to shared visibility, so anchor on that phrase and the acronym becomes secondary.
Hiroshi T.Jun 4, 2026B is correct. A is a tempting distractor because assigning tasks feels proactive, but the PMBOK Guide emphasizes interactive communication for resolving team issues, and email does not meet that bar. Weekly team meetings create the visibility the team member is missing.
Dervla O.May 31, 2026B is correct here. The root issue is visibility across a virtual team, so the fix has to be collective, not a series of one-on-ones. Weekly full-team meetings give everyone a shared view of progress and surface dependencies before they become blockers. Eliminate A and D because email and individual syncs actually reinforce the silo problem, and C just points people at a document without solving the communication gap.
Hiroshi T.May 31, 2026Agree on B for the exam, but the PMBOK framing is team ground rules and communication management plan, not just meeting frequency, since a weekly sync without agreed-upon participation rules can still leave quiet members invisible.