A project manager works in a hierarchical organization. The project team members are used to being told what to do, and the performance reviews include the percentage of completion of the allocated tasks. After a conversation with the sponsor, the project manager realizes that they need to reassign a couple of tasks to meet the next milestone. This change can be perceived as poor performance by the current assignees.
What should the project manager do?
- Organize a team meeting and inform the team members that, as the person accountable for delivery, they decided to change the task allocation
- Ask the more experienced team member privately to take the task and inform the other team members that work has been reassigned
- Ask the less experienced team member privately to stop working on the task and inform another team member that the work has been reassigned
- Organize a team meeting to inform team members about a change in direction and work with them to change the task allocation
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