At daily standups, team members repeatedly ask which tasks to prioritize. How should the project manager ensure the team remains fully productive?

The correct answer is to work with the product owner to ensure the project backlog is prioritized. In Agile frameworks, the Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and managing the product backlog, which includes prioritizing items. If team members are consistently asking for prioritization, it indicates a gap in this process. The Project Manager (or Scrum Master in Scrum) facilitates this collaboration to ensure the team has a clear, prioritized list of tasks, enabling them to pull work efficiently and remain productive. Reviewing the project backlog during the standup is inefficient and not the primary purpose of a standup. Encouraging team members to prioritize the product backlog is incorrect; prioritization is the Product Owner's role. Ensuring team members work according to the project plan is too rigid for Agile and doesn't address the root cause of unclear priorities.