Project Management Professional (PMP) Practice Exam

During the execution of a project to build a complex defense system, your team has run into a deep crisis. The project’s goal and objectives have been challenging right from the start, but now you have discovered that your team members have become increasingly unaware of them. Being busy solving detail problems, they often fail to understand the overall requirements. Then they develop solutions which resolve issues in their area of limited responsibility, while causing new problems at the interfaces with other system components. Meanwhile, the team members show signs of growing frustration, and time is running away. How can you help your team in this situation?

1. Accompany your team members along a sequence of maturity levels from dependence through independence to interdependence.

2. Ignore the low-level issues and focus on achieving the overall requirements, details can be sorted out during test and handover.

3. If everybody simply does their jobs, then there should be no problem. Make sure that team members are fully aware of their accountability.

4. Problems of this dimension have their origin in fundamental personal incompatibilities between team members. You should replace them all.

The correct answer is: Accompany your team members along a sequence of maturity levels from dependence through independence to interdependence.

During the execution of a project to build a complex defense system, it is common for a team to face challenges, especially when the project's goal and objectives are challenging from the start. In this particular scenario, the team members have become increasingly unaware of the project's goal and objectives due to being preoccupied with solving detail problems. As a result, they end up developing solutions that may resolve issues in their specific area of responsibility but create new problems at the interfaces with other system components. This situation can cause growing frustration among team members and lead to delays in project completion. The most helpful approach in this situation would be to accompany team members along a sequence of maturity levels from dependence through independence to interdependence. This approach allows team members to have a better understanding of the overall requirements and work together to address any issues or challenges that may arise. It is important not to ignore the low-level issues and