While conducting a progress meeting on a critical multinational project, a team member reports a critical problem that will prevent them from completing their assigned task. What should the project manager do?

The project manager should schedule a meeting with the team member to review and update the issue log together. This is the most direct and efficient way to address a critical problem reported by a team member. The issue log is the appropriate tool for tracking and managing such problems, ensuring they are documented, assigned an owner, and resolved. Asking the team member to follow the communications management plan might delay the immediate action needed for a critical problem. Reviewing the risk register is important, but this is an issue that has already occurred, not a potential future event. While a change request might be needed later if the issue impacts scope, schedule, or cost baselines, the immediate step is to log and understand the issue.