This question offers a familiar scenario: you work for a pharmaceutical company that has grown fast and is aggressive in bringing new products to market. The current project you are leading is not that exciting - it involves an upgrade to the customer management system used by the company. When the project kicked off, many of the top resources had rolled off other tasks. You were able to recruit many of the best resources to your team. The project has 9 months remaining on the revised schedule. Today, the marketing department broadcasted a press release indicating that your company won a huge contract with great bonus potential based on performance. Without discussing this with you, one of your team members, named Francis, goes directly to the person who is expected to lead the new project and asks to be a part of the team. What should you do?

A. Go directly to Francis’s functional manager and report the offensive behavior.

B. Call a meeting with Francis and your project sponsor so that the 2 of you can discuss Francis’s actions with him.

C. Bring the item up in the next team meeting, document it in the team issue log, and monitor it yourself.

D. Discuss the matter with Francis as soon as possible in a meeting with him.