PMP Exam Set D – Q63

A project manager of a project that was contracted on a Time and Material basis finds that some of the tasks have been taking lesser time than planned. On average each team member has required only 30 hours to accomplish work which was planned for 40 hours during the week. The project manager should:

A. Report the accurate status to your manager and send a separate report stating that each team member was busy for 40 hours
B. Report this accurately on the status report and ensure that activities are re-planned as necessary, to keep the team completely occupied.
C. Report on the status report that each team member was busy for 40 hours, and use the time saved for other activities not related to the project.
D. Avoid mentioning these kinds of savings on status reports.

B. Report this accurately on the status report and ensure that activities are re-planned as necessary, to keep the team completely occupied.