A distributed project team wants to apply the common ground principle to ensure everyone shares the same understanding of scope. The team asks the project lead to set up a workshop. What should the project lead do?

The common ground principle in project management emphasizes shared understanding and agreement among team members. To achieve this in a workshop setting, inviting participants with sufficient lead time to prepare (the correct answer) is crucial. This allows attendees to review relevant documentation, formulate questions, and come prepared to contribute meaningfully, fostering a more productive discussion and a stronger shared understanding of the scope. Asking senior development members to elaborate the scope in detail is insufficient as it doesn't actively engage all team members in building shared understanding. Reducing the number of participants might make consensus easier but can exclude valuable perspectives, hindering true common ground. While providing specific instructions and setting expectations is important, it's secondary to ensuring participants have adequate preparation time to meet those expectations effectively.