Question

You are the project manager on an agile software project. Over the past few sprints, you notice team members repeatedly come to you to make routine technical and prioritization decisions rather than resolving them among themselves. Velocity is stable, but you are becoming a bottleneck and are concerned the team is overly dependent on you. Which approach best reflects a servant leadership and coaching mindset to address this situation?

Accepted Answer

Ask the team open-ended questions to guide them toward their own solutions and encourage self-organization.

Answer

Continue making the decisions to keep the team moving quickly, since velocity remains stable.

Answer

Assign a lead developer to make all routine decisions in your absence so questions no longer come to you.

Answer

Create a detailed decision-approval matrix that routes each type of decision to a specific role for sign-off.