A project team is working on an agile software development project. The project manager is concerned that the virtual team may not be as effective as a colocated team at headquarters.
Which two actions should the project manager leverage to ensure the team is meeting performance expectations?
(Choose two)
A project scope statement has been approved, and the project manager and core team have been assigned to the project. Suddenly, the project
manager takes a temporary leave of absence due to a medical emergency. While the project manager is on leave, the team develops the project
schedule. When the project manager returns, a detailed schedule is almost complete.
What should the project manager do?
A company is about to start a complex research project. Due to the level of uncertainty, the project manager
recommends the use of a hybrid approach; however, the organization only has experience with predictive projects.
How can the project manager strategize the use of a hybrid approach to the organization?
An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to
all the features.
How can the project manager ensure that the appropriate acceptance criteria are applied to the features?
An experienced project manager is leading an enthusiastic team but realizes the team lacks the experience to complete the job successfully. What should the project manager do to reduce the risk of project failure?
Acompany recently adopted agile to develop innovation projects. The project manager is experiencing problems with some team members who consider some agile
ceremonies to be unnecessary.
What should the project manager have done before the beginning of the project?
A project team has established contracts for purchasing vehicles and construction services. In the middle of project execution, the team learns
that the vehicle supplier cannot deliver the vehicles. There is not enough time to find a new supplier without delaying the project.
Which action should the project manager take to procure the vehicles?
A healthcare company is in the process of deploying an innovative healthcare solution globally. The project team has completed a limited release.
The stakeholders have raised concerns about global healthcare guidelines and risks.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading a project when a key stakeholder requests additional work that is not in the scope. The stakeholder is also concerned that the project sponsors may not approve and fund the additional change in scope.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager leads a project that implements a new process throughout the organization. The rollout is done in stages and the project manager planned a demonstration for the pilot business units. A manager from a business unit that is scheduled for a later date asks to be invited to the sprint review.
What should the project manager do?
At the end of a project, the project manager was asked to provide a performance rating of the project team members. What should the project manager mainly make reference to?
A human resource (HR) acquisition process for a large project has recently changed. One major process change includes the approval of the financial manager and the recruitment manager. This change to the process implies longer processing. The project urgently needs new resources.
What should the project manager do?
A subject matter expert (SME) external to the project team provides a suggestion that will save the project delivery time. This SME has available
time to support the project, but was not planned to be involved in the current agile iteration.
What should the project manager do?
An organization is transitioning to agile delivery, and a new team has been assembled. A project is not going well because the variation of the team velocity is very high and every sprint delivers less than committed. A new project lead with a strong technical background has been assigned to the project.
What should the project lead do?
An agile team is geographically separated across multiple continents, and the project manager of identifying the tools to manage the communication among the virtual teams Drag the appropriate tool on the left to each project task on the right
A project manager agreed to a team member's request to have an alternative working schedule whereby they begin working at 12:00 p.m. each
day. This arrangement has worked well for the project, but has recently been scrutinized by members from other project teams because the
company's core working hours begin at 9:00 a.m.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
Acompany's key product is evolving and requires the use of a new technology. No one on the team is familiar with this technology; however, experienced developers
on the team volunteered to study the concepts and application and believe they will be able to take full responsibility for the new technology.
What should the project manager do?
A senior project manager has included a junior project manager as part of the project team. During a coaching session, the junior project manager
asks the senior project manager how to be efficient and reduce rework.
How should the senior project manager respond?
A project is 70% complete when the project sponsor requests an additional deliverable. What should the project manager do first?
A steering committee member is complaining about the weekly report. They stated that the report is too long and has unnecessary details. As a result, they are unable to obtain the main message and take action.
What should the project manager do to avoid similar complaints?
A project team member just informed the project manager that the license for the software that the team uses to perform calculations has just expired. As a result, the team cannot continue with their project tasks.
What should the project manager do first?
A company that uses a predictive approach and operates in a highly regulated market is losing profitability because its product life cycle is taking longer than those of its
competitors. A new project manager has been hired to change this scenario.
What approach should the project manager propose?
A project manager is working as a servant leader for a pilot project to adopt agile practices. After three sprints, the team demos the product to the
main stakeholders, but receives negative feedback about the product's features. The team feels that all the features met the acceptance criteria
defined by the product owner and does not understand what went wrong.
How should the project manager mitigate the product rejection?
A project manager is working on a software development project for an oil and gas client using an agile approach. The project manager is having difficulty preparing the schedule because the project has various unknowns.
Which scheduling method should the project manager use to develop the schedule?
Travel restrictions are suddenly imposed during a project's execution. The team members reside in different geographic locations.
What should the project manager do next to address this issue?
A project manager is performing the scrum master role for a project team of developers. At the daily standup, a couple of developers complain about the noise from a neighboring team, the performance of their laptops, and the difficulty in booking meeting rooms.
What should the project manager do?
A project stakeholder complained that they did not receive an important delivery that was stated in the schedule. The
team member responsible for this deliverable explained that they sent an email to the stakeholder, advising them
that the deliverable would not be delivered on time.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A vendor has manufactured a complex product. During a factory acceptance test, several deficiencies were identified. Product delivery is on the
critical path, and any delay would impact project completion.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is managing a project that requires specialized architecture services. This project was identified as a high risk for the
organization. The project manager works with an external architect who is highly specialized. However, the architect will soon resign because they
accepted an offer from another firm.
What should the project manager do next?
A protect team is working remotely on a solution The client wants the solution as soon as possible and is uncomfortable because the team members are not colocated In addition the client expressed concerns about the understanding of the project context and the team's decision-making process
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a multiyear project. During project execution, the customer delegates a new representative who contacts the project manager directly with a concern about their participation in status meetings. The representative wants to contact team members directly.
What should the project manager do next?
A construction company is executing a building contract that includes firm milestones for replacing certain components of the building. During execution, the client complains that the new components do not meet the requirements.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this from happening?
A project team is completing a design, while another team in a different country is performing implementation. How should the project manager communicate the design to the implementation team?
Several components of an expensive manufacturing project have been returned by the customer. The customer is complaining that the quality of
the components is poor and is concerned that, as a result, their products will be returned due to quality issues. The project manager is certain that
quality has been maintained.
How should the project manager communicate with the customer to help assure them that the project has produced quality products?
A project manager noticed that the functional manager is not cooperating with staff assignment schedules and is always finding excuses not fo release the requested staff.
What should the project manager do first?
A team has developed and tested new software to control airplanes during flights. There are several regulatory requirements that must be met. What should the project manager do to meet these requirements?
A project is implementing an agile strategy, and a minimum viable product (MVP) was agreed upon. After the first iteration review, the customer explained that the first deliverable is not of great value.
What should the project manager have done differently?
While finalizing project management plans, a customer provides the project manager with a new set of quality standards to which the final product must adhere. What
should the project manager do to ensure a smooth delivery of the product?
A project management office (PMO) director finds that the project managers leading software development projects are not consistently seeking approval from other division leaders in cybersecurity and operations before deploying code into production. The PMO director asks the project manager to develop a solution for this issue.
What should the project manager do to fix this problem?
A project charter has been approved and the project manager has been assigned to the project. The project manager is currently working with the project team to subdivide the project work packages.
What is the project manager doing?
A project is ready to deliver the first batch of the product when a quality control check rejects the product as unfit for delivery. The root cause
analysis (RCA) shows that a component added as part of the latest change request was not tested throughout the development cycle.
What should the project manager do next?
A project is comprised of team members who are not engaged and committed to project success. What should the project manager do to address this situation?
An agile project manager notices that one of the team members is developing extensive knowledge in a specific matter. Other team members are
likely to require this knowledge in the future.
What should the agile project manager do?
A self-organizing team for a critical project is consistently delivering value according to their commitments. During a retrospective, the project manager observed that most of
the team members were stressed due to over commitments.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is assigned to a critical software development project. The team is using a hybrid approach and has divided development into four sprints. At the end of
sprint three, the project manager discovers that the earned value (EV) is US$500,000 and the planned value (PV) is US$550,000.
What should the project manager do?
Two members of a new project team disagree on the best approach to solve a problem. The conflict has been going on for 1 week. The two
members are tense around each other and are taking everything personally.
What should the project manager do?
Anew project manager was assigned to a project during implementation. The project manager realized that new tax policies are creating a risk for a cost overrun by 25%. The project manager updated the risk register and kept the project running as normal. The CEO has announced that the project could be cancelled since the acceptable cost overrun is only 20%. The project manager was quite surprised as this was new information.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
A project lead is working on an agile project to build the team's vision, including the decision-making process. It was decided that the team will
vote on items, and if 90% of the team agrees on a decision, then it will be carried forward. At the very first technical design meeting, the team
makes a decision that the project lead strongly disagrees with.
How should the project lead proceed?
Eight highly qualified experts have been assembled to work for a 6-month period on an a specific aspect of an organization's product development process. How should the
project manager support this team to succeed?
There is frequent conflict between two project team members working on a project. This has caused a negative impact on the project.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A team realizes that there is no access to data that the project depends on to complete the current iteration. This
dependency was known; however, the team is unsure of the available options to remove this obstacle.
What should the project manager do next?
An agile project for a database migration impacts nearly all business units of the corporation. Every effort has been made to complete the migration before the end-ofsupport date for the database platform. Anew impediment now implies the need to continue use of the old platform another year at a higher support price.
What should the product owner do about this situation?
A project is ready to start, and resources are allocated. The development manager then informs the project manager that a critical resource is no
longer available due to a family emergency. The development manager indicates that all other developers have been assigned to other projects,
and there is no capacity for any developer to take on additional work.
What should the project manager do next to fulfill this resource need?
How can agile measurements improve upon predictive measurements in cases where the final 10% of a project takes longer than planned?
A project is about to start with a global project team. Travel is not a viable option for project team members, so most will participate virtually.
What should the project manager do to engage the team?
Anew engineer was assigned to a project. Although the engineer has adequate skills for the job, they always wait for authorization from the
project manager before acting.
What should the project manager do?
A project has met the agreed-upon product requirements and is closing. There is time remaining in the schedule and excess budget. The
resources are not yet scheduled to move to other projects. Several product champions want to continue adding functionality to the product.
What should the project manager do?