You are working as a project manager. Three team members have been assigned to you for a new project. You need to deliver a porotype for the project within a month. You assign week-wise tasks to the team, ensuring that each weekend they have met their weekly deadlines. The last week comes and around Thursday, you realize that few things that should've been completed a couple of weeks back are still to be done. The tasks were small so you did not pay much attention to them then. But now, though small, if they are missed, it may have a huge impact on the final product. You call a meeting and want to know what happened. All three team members claim that you only gave them their weekly deadlines and that they had no idea that the prototype was to be delivered this month end. You may miss the deadline, although you can send the prototype indicating the small things that have been missed as known bugs. What do you do?   Select one   a There is nothing you can do now. Ask everyone to work extra hard and they better get this done in time of you make sure that they get a red dot in their quarter reviews   b. Try and salvage the situation. Start working with the team and try and get some extra help if required.   Try your best to not tell the client that you may miss the deadline. You can apologies later if you do miss it c.Write everyone a strict mail about missing their weekly deadlines, telling them how it will cost the company a major client. Be sure to CC the HR   d. Ensure that everyone is clear about the final deadline in the future. For now, apologies and try and ask for a day's extension. Maybe if you start working non-stop an diligently now. you will meet the deadline and not need that extra day after all, pleasantly surprising the client

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You are working as a project manager. Three team members have been assigned to you for a new project. You need to deliver a porotype for the project within a month. You assign week-wise tasks to the team, ensuring that each weekend they have met their weekly deadlines. The last week comes and around Thursday, you realize that few things that should've been completed a couple of weeks back are still to be done. The tasks were small so you did not pay much attention to them then. But now, though small, if they are missed, it may have a huge impact on the final product. You call a meeting and want to know what happened. All three team members claim that you only gave them their weekly deadlines and that they had no idea that the prototype was to be delivered this month end. You may miss the deadline, although you can send the prototype indicating the small things that have been missed as known bugs. What do you do?

 

Select one

 

a There is nothing you can do now. Ask everyone to work extra hard and they better get this done in time of you make sure that they get a red dot in their quarter reviews

 

b. Try and salvage the situation. Start working with the team and try and get some extra help if required.

 

Try your best to not tell the client that you may miss the deadline. You can apologies later if you do miss it

c.Write everyone a strict mail about missing their weekly deadlines, telling them how it will cost the company a major client. Be sure to CC the HR

 

d. Ensure that everyone is clear about the final deadline in the future. For now, apologies and try and ask for a day's extension. Maybe if you start working non-stop an diligently now. you will meet the deadline and not need that extra day after all, pleasantly surprising the client

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