Question

You just completed developing the schedule for your project and got the approval from stakeholders and the sponsor. One of the team members assigned to work on a critical component informs you that she needs additional time to complete her activities as several relevant pieces were missed during planning. Her updated estimate would have no impact on the critical path; thus, the project duration would be the same. The best approach the project manager may take in this situation will be:

Find a replacement for the resource who can complete the task within the allocated time.

Inform the resources that it is too late for any kind of change in the project schedule.

Inform the resources that it is OK as you have sufficent schedule reserve to handle this kind of situation.

Updaate the project schedule and other relevant plans to reflect the new estimate

Answer 1

The correct answer is :Inform the resources that it is OK as you have sufficient schedule reserve to handle this kind of situation

Since the additional time required to complete the tasks has no impact on the critical path and the overall duration of the project,the project would be completed on time.That is,there is sufficient schedule reserve already planned which would absorb the delay in the tasks of the team member.

Hence,the best approach to take is to inform the resources that it is OK and continue with the initial estimates.