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CIMA Exam CIMAPRA19-E02-1 Topic 4 Question 108 Discussion

Actual exam question for CIMA's CIMAPRA19-E02-1 exam
Question #: 108
Topic #: 4
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A highly complex IT project is being tackled by a self-managing team of three technical specialists who had never met each other before.

At first they argued constantly for nearly two days over the best way to tackle the work and what technical software tools to use. Finally these issues were resolved, the team went out for dinner together and they agreed how best to share the workload between them.

After this point, the productivity improved dramatically and good work progress was made. All was going well until two days later when another IT specialist turned up unexpectedly. This person was far less experienced than the other three.

The new arrival explained that he would betaking over as project manager and immediately started to give explicit orders to the team.

In the context of Tuckman's team development theory, whichinterpretation fits the facts of the scenario.

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Laura
2 days ago
I believe the team will have to go through storming again before reaching the performing stage with the new project manager taking charge.
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Nelida
5 days ago
I agree with Arminda, the new arrival might disrupt the progress and push the team back to the storming stage.
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Arminda
10 days ago
I think the team was at the norming stage before the new arrival.
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