Project Management Professional (PMP) — Question 683

A project manager is leading a program execution and has challenges, because a project team waits for every decision to be made by the project manager. The progress of the team is slow because the project manager is the bottleneck. Upon assessing the situation, the project manager realized that the team members can handle the work on their own.

What should the project manager do?

Answer options

• A. Raise a resource request to get complimentary training for the project manager and team members.
• B. Escalate the situation to the resource manager to ensure the team makes their own decisions.
• C. Gather feedback from all team members and define a process to handle the team requests.
• D. Revise the roles and responsibilities and empower the team to make their own decisions.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because revising roles and empowering the team fosters autonomy and speeds up decision-making. Option A does not address the immediate issue of the project manager being a bottleneck. Option B merely escalates the problem without providing a solution. Option C focuses on gathering feedback but does not empower the team to act independently.