Mock Test Query No.13

[harishsa883]

Q The project team has been working under work pressure for six months and not getting time to upgrade to new skills. Your current project does not need new skill but this project will finish soon. What should be your approach to skill upgradation?

Answer Choices mentioned are :
a Just let the team finish this project
b Allocate time to upgrade skills for a regular basis
c Hire a coach to train the team new skills as part of regular learning activity
d Facilitate a team meeting to encourage them to self-organize for developing new skills

Correct Answer mentioned is Option b

My understanding is Skill development would be a continuous process with preferred option being On the Job Training. Separate Time Window for Training should be the second best choice. Hence, will option d be a better choice in this scenario.

Please clarify

[saket]

In general we should as PM allocate time for development on regular basis, as you pointing out, in this case the indication is that project is about to finish, so you may not be able to do planning for your area of work at the same time you should encourage the team to keep learning, and that's may D as safe choice

[harishsa883]

So you are suggesting the better Answer to be choice d

[saket]

Yes

[sandeep.jagadeesh]

Hello Saket,

A couple of points,

1. The answer is still marked as B for this question.
2. There is a similar question as below where the recommended answer is D. As per the above explanation should it be Option B here? Please advise.

The project team is delivering expected outputs on regular basis but not finding time and motivation to upgrade their skills. What would be your response to this situation?
A. Do nothing as the team is doing well. You need to work on upgrading skills based on project need
B. Facilitate a team meeting to explain the importance of developing new skills
C. Encourage the team to self-organize to develop new skills
D. Find ways to focus on regular team learning as part of delivery work since market conditions change very fast.

[saket]

In this question D looks better since B is just focusing on explaining the importance of new learning rather than doing it.


The Previous question:

The previous question was saying lets find a way to continuously focus on learning.

Again if choices are so close, it will not be possible for us to know with 100% surety which one will PMI will consider is right, so we can live with some amount of uncertainty in questions.

[seema.sonkiya]

It was already fixed. It may be visible when you attempt next time.