While managing a project using a hybrid approach, the project manager realizes that there is a high level of rework due to quality issues. Because
of that, each feature is taking longer than initially estimated.
What should the project manager do to address the issue?
After assigning tasks to a project team, a project manager discovers that some team members are uncomfortable. Same team members are having 4 difficult time understanding their assigned tasks, whereas other team members are challenging the schedule based on that allocation to the project.
Which phase of the Tuckman ladder of team formation is occurring?
During the development of a project in a dynamic market environment, new unforeseen legal requirements have come into effect. The project
manager is not sure if some of the project deliverables will be fully compliant with the new requirements.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been assigned as the servant leader for an ongoing project that historically has presented unexpected problems. The main stakeholder is hesitant to continue with the rest of the sprints even though there are no open issues or indications of risks at this stage.
What should the project manager do to address this problem?
A project manager is overseeing a project as part of a program geared toward a major technology disruption. The team is comprised of brilliant young professionals who have worked on different projects for the organization in the past. However, the team complained that they previously experienced a lack of direction during project execution and are a traid of the same issue in this project.
Which two actions should the project manager take to ensure that this issue does not occur in this project? (Choose two)
A project manager who takes over halfway through a project determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.65. A detailed audit identifies that the project cost was analogously estimated, and the audit team thinks that something was missing in the way the estimates were done.
What should have been done to avoid this problem?
A product owner has returned from a meeting with a few key stakeholders, who expressed interest in learning more about the project progress. The product owner is
seeking the project manager's recommendation on how to approach this request.
What should the project manager do to help the product owner?
A company's project management office (PMO) has started to implement iterative tools. The project manager is starting a new project and has
identified an opportunity to use the new tools. There is disagreement among stakeholders about the use of the adaptive tool.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is leading an agile team. The daily standups and iteration meetings are currently facilitated by the product owner. A team member contacts the project manager and mentions that they are looking to improve their facilitation skills.
How should the project manager respond to this request?
During an agile project a project manager lost one of the resources, and at the same lime, uncovered new requirements, which were added to the backlog What should the project manager do next?
A company has undertaken a large transformation project in preparation for the changing economy. During the planning of the transformation project, the key resource from human resources (HR) refuses to approve the proposed project plan.
What should the project manager do to gain an understanding of the cause for the resource's refusal?
At the end of a workshop to review project deliverables, a number of follow-up action items were generated. What should the project manager do next?
A project manage is in the middle of an angle project comprised of 100 user stories broken down into five iterations. Each user story is worth U$$50. The actual expenditure is U$$2,00 and 50 user stories have been delivered.
Which statement is true?
A healthcare organization hired a new compliance specialist to ensure that the healthcare compliance needs are met. The feedback about the new compliance specialist
from the team was average.
What should the project manager do to help the new compliance specialist improve?
A project manager is managing a few innovation projects with a high level of uncertainty. The project manager is experiencing challenges with the large number of change
requests issued due to the nature of the project.
What should the project manager do?
An experienced project team member always points out the issues of other team members during meetings. The other team members feel that
the experienced team member is deflecting their own issues in meetings.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager's customer is new to agile approaches. When the customer found out that the project was going to use an agile approach, the customer became
concerned that the product quality will be sacrificed.
What should the project manager do?
Multidisciplinary teams will be needed for a project. The project manager asks the project planner to create a consolidated schedule. The project manager determines from the consolidated schedule that the project's finish date exceeds the requested finish date.
What should the project manager suggest to the planner to analyze this issue?
A project manager is working on a project to build a manufacturing complex. The project will run in three different phases: engineering, procurement, and construction. The
procurement phase is in the initiation stage. The project sponsor wants to pursue the project phases as they have been planned, but also wants to accommodate and adjust to new data, input from the customer, and changes during the various phases as the project progresses.
How should the project manager approach this project?
A project manager brings in a new team member from an agile environment to work in a predictive environment The project manager expects to leverage the new team member's agile experience with the existing team members.
What should the project manager do to integrate the new team member effectively?
An IT project manager for a project that is 50% complete teams that a critical team member plans to relocate to another country soon. The team member is needed for the remainder of the project.
How should the project manager improve team dynamics?
A team member has very strong technical skills and is interested in a leadership role. A leadership position opens up outside of the team in the organization. The project manager has observed that the team member has a major gap in communicating in a professional manner.
What should the project manager do?
While preparing an earned value analysis (EVA) for the sponsor, the project manager provided this information in the latest project report:
Approved Work Package Cost Estimates: US$9,500
Contingency reserves: $500 %
Management reserves: 10% of contingency reserves
Percent complete of the project: 50%
Planned percent of the project: 40%
Actual costs of the project: US$4,500
What is accurate about the project status?
A project team member informs the project manager that a stakeholder is contacting the team member to request status updates. The team member is being distracted by these repeated requests, which are interfering with the completion of assigned tasks.
What should the project manager do?
The project lead is very concerned about the quality of a specific design feature and how the product will perform. What should the project lead focus on to ensure project success and customer satisfaction?
A project team needs to create artifacts for an upcoming steering committee.
What should the project manager do first?
A multinational company is launching a company-wide digital transformation project that covers all of its regions and business lines. The project is expected to go through five phases and finish in 2 years. The project manager schedules a kick-off meeting.
What should the project manager do next?
During the last iteration of a hybrid project, one of the key members of the team wants to leave the project. What should the project manager do to address this concern?
A company is transitioning from a predictive to agile delivery of projects. Based on
the requirements, the project team estimates the budget and decides to use a fixed-price
contract with its vendor. However, during the execution of the project, the requirements
evolve and priorities start to change constantly, which puts the project and the estimate at completion (EAC) off by 40%.
What should the project manager do next?
A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway
through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.
What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?
The project team completed a demonstration of the main deliverable of the project. Although the project sponsor is happy with the outcome and is ready to sign the release to production, one of the business unit managers who attended the demo believes that the deliverable is not complete.
Which document should the project manager use to resolve this situation?
A project manager is assigned to a long-term project. The project manager came across a government debate over a new law that may affect the project.
Which first two actions should the project manager perform? (Choose 2)
A telecommunications project consists of departments spread across several countries with different cultures. The project team rarely meets in person, and each team member works independently using online reporting tools.
What should the project manager do to ensure team members are committed to project success?
The project stakeholders represent diverse organizational functions and have differing opinions about project goals. The project has been approved, but change requests could result if the stakeholders do not align on the functionality needed and the minimum viable product (MVP).
What should the project manager do?
A project manager was appointed to lead an already approved project. While reviewing the benefits management plan, the project manager finds out that the information about the forecasted value of the project may not be accurate.
What should the project manager do?
An organization is undergoing an agile transformation. The executive leadership team is concerned that they will lose control over the scope of the project.
What should the project manager, who is responsible for this project, do to mitigate this risk?
A project manager is assigned to a multiyear enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution project. During planning, the business sponsor emphasizes the importance of demonstrating value along the way, while maintaining the integrity of the final product.
How should the project manager establish the delivery model for this project?
A project team began working on a complex project that involves new technology as a product. The team is new to the technology and the proposed approach. Additionally, the customer is apprehensive about how the product will be received in the market.
What should the project manager do to help the team and the customer?
In the execution phase of a project, the development team is informed by the IT security department that one of the external platforms that the team is using will be uninstalled for the whole organization.
What should the project manager do first?
A few new team members working on a public housing project are unfamiliar with the system. They do not understand how to evaluate residents applying for a subsidy to build a house, including the rules and criteria for applicant approval.
What should the project manager do?
At the closing phase of the project the project manager sends the completion reports to the client as a formal written document, indicating that the contract has been completed The client refuses to approve the document since the defect rate is 0.1%. The project manager insists that it is an acceptable rate as the standard defect rate of the industry is 0.15%.
What should have been done to avoid this situation?
A new team member is assigned to a team that consistently delivers each iteration. The new team member is does not understand many of the processes followed and begins to negatively impact the schedule.
What should the project manager do?
While following up on a deliverable, a team member expresses concern to the project manager about working with another team member. This team member states that the other team member, who is a functional manager, is often defensive and aggressive during meetings.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A project manager was recently assigned to a project that is in the execution phase and is experiencing roadblocks. During a review of the
processes and procedures, the project manager notices similarities to a previous project that experienced similar roadblocks. The project manager
reviews the task schedule and finds that certain tasks are well behind expectations. In speaking with the project team, the project manager
confirms that the team is following the processes exactly.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager collects various pieces of information and consolidates metrics in an agile project. The project manager finds that there is slack in the team in terms of productivity. The number of items sent to development per person has decreased by 10%, and the project manager used a root cause analysis (RCA) and discovered the reason is a lack of knowledge in one of the frameworks used for modeling.
What should the project manager do next?
While sizing a user story in planning poker, one team member believes the user story should be 8 points. Another believes the story should be 2 points.
What should the scrum master do?
A project team has experienced deliverable delays in the last few iterations. During the retrospective, the team realizes that the quality issues identified are because the quality process is outdated.
Who should the project manager ask to update the process?
A project manager is finalizing the project charter and has invited the project sponsor and key stakeholders to confirm the project estimates. The project manager suggests adding a budget reserve to meet unforeseen risks, but the project sponsor disagrees.
What should the project manager do?
During a project's initiation phase a lessons learned sharing session was held with the team from another project Low construction productivity was discussed as a potential delay to project completion
What should the project manager do next?
In an organizational upper-level management meeting, the CEO shows interest in a project of which they were not previously aware. After the meeting, what should the project manager do to ensure the CEO's support?