A hotel chain initiates a program to expand meeting offerings to include telecommunications technology and virtual meetings . The program has component projects, each of which requires team members to have different technical skills and expertise . The program manager assembles a team of project managers to lead each of the projects, and learns that the desired resources will not be available at the start of the program.
As a result, the program manager must do which of the following?
A . Utilize team members that are currently available, even though they do not have the expertise needed.
B . Assign the tasks on the critical path to the resources available to adhere to the project schedule.
C . Delay the start of the program until the assigned resources are available.
D . Apply resource leveling considering the constraints of time, budget, and quality.
Answer: D