A Project Team Has Worked for Six Months on a Solar

question 2

Multiple Choice

A project team has worked for six months on a solar power project that will involve an entirely new technology. Early in the project, they chose a very specific approach from among several available, and they have continued pursuing this approach in spite of repeated failures. The project sponsor has warned them the project will be cancelled if they do not achieve success within one month. The team decides to stick with the current approach and work harder rather than experimenting with an alternative technology option. Which phenomenon best describes what has influenced the team's decision?

• A) Murphy's Law
• B) Parkinson's Law
• C) Student Syndrome
• D) Scope Creep
• E) Escalation of Commitment
• F) Pareto's Law

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