The project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company’s medium producing products. The project manager comes from the engineering department and the team comes from the product management and marketing departments. The project scope statement and project planning are completed when a stakeholder notifies the team that there is better way to complete one of the work packages. They even supply a technical review letter from their department proving that the new way to complete the project will be faster than the older way. The Project Manager has had similar experiences with this department on other projects and was expecting this to happen on this project. What is the first thing a Project Manager should do?

a) Contact the department and complain again about their missing the deadline for the submission of scope.
b) Look for how this schedule change will impact the cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package
c) See if there is a way to change from matrix environment to a functional organization so as to eliminate all the interference from other departments
d) Ask the department of they have any other changes