Project Management Professional (PMP) — Question 261

A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing.
What should the project manager do to create a positive environment?

Answer options

• A. Help the teams in establishing and adhering to their ground rules and revisit after regular intervals
• B. Copy the ground rules established by another project and provide them to the teams
• C. Establish the team ground rules and share them with the team for strict adherence
• D. Extract the organization's policies and processes, customize them, and give them to the teams to adhere to

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer, A, is effective because it encourages teams to develop ownership of their rules and promotes self-organization through periodic review. Option B is inappropriate as it does not allow teams to create their own context-specific rules. Option C imposes rules instead of encouraging team autonomy, and option D undermines the self-organizing principle by enforcing external policies rather than fostering team-created guidelines.