A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall to 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, "We will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week," the project manager is:



a) Compromising
b) Increase costs even further
C) using earned value
D) Withdrawing

My answer was Increase costs even further. The correct answer is withdrawing.