A project was recently flagged as being noncompliant during an inspection. Several options were suggested on how to address the noncompliance, but each may have different impacts on the budget, schedule, and quality.
How should the project manager proceed?
A team member has escalated an issue to the project manager, stating that they have done their part of the job. Their concern is that there is still no response from the other party in the service level agreement (SLA). The team member is eager to find a resolution for the reported issue.
What should the project manager advise the team member to do to ensure that the project escalation mechanism is effective?
An IT team has reached out to the project manager for guidance on which communication method to use when system downtime will impact the resources working on the project.
Which two communication methods should the project manager recommend? (Choose 2)
The key stakeholder of an agile project has low visibility of the project's progress. The stakeholder expresses a concern to the project manager about whether or not the scope is moving in the right direction.
What should the project manager do?
A project team has obtained additional team members from different time zones. As a result, there are full-day delays in the work being completed because there are questions from team members from opposite time zones.
What should the project lead do?
A project learn member is having difficulty delivering assigned tasks for a project that is at risk of being delayed. The main issue is that the team member does not understand a new system that was recently implemented.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has just been assigned to a team that is developing a new design product. The work breakdown structure (VW/BS) has been created and the activities have been assigned to the team members. The project manager finds that there are activities that could be completed sooner by other team members. If the current assignments are left as is, the project could be delayed 2 weeks.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
The project sponsor requested technical specifications for a project-related component. The project sponsor does not have the authorization to see the specifications, but insists on seeing them.
What should the project manager do first in this situation?
During user acceptance testing (UAT), a manager declined a core application functionality that was originally requested by a subject matter expert (SME). Due to the manager's influence, the project team is concerned about the overall impact to the project.
What should the project manager have done?
A project manager is reviewing the team's Kanban board for an iteration with 16 tasks in progress. All the tasks are equally sized with an estimate of 8 man-hours of effort needed to complete each task. The team is made up of five cross-functional members. The normal working calendar is 8 hours per day; however, two of the team members will only work at 50% capacity. The project manager has a maximum of one week to deliver these tasks in progress due to government regulations.
Will the project manager meet this objective?
During the execution of a project, a project manager is informed that a team member is leaving the company. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading a product development project that requires high involvement from several stakeholders. What should the project manager do to ensure this involvement?
A project engineer in country A is complaining about the sample received from the supplier in country B because the sample is not the correct length. During a telephone conference, the supplier checked the drawings and insisted that the measurement was accurate.
What should the project manager do next?
An agile team is funded for a fixed 6-month period. The sponsor's request will take at least 12 months to complete.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is working together for the first time. During the first sprint, the project manager was asked to solve a prioritization conflict between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner related to a feature requested by an important customer.
How should the project manager resolve this conflict?
A project to develop an enterprise resource system for a university is in the planning phase. The project has internal stakeholders such as operational departments, students, and academic staff, as well as global stakeholders who receive the information from the university on a regular basis. All the stakeholders have very different expectations and needs from the system.
What should the project manager do to ensure effective communication?
A global and complex project is in the execution phase. Recently, there were executive board changes, and the executive sponsor is transitioning to a new role. The outgoing sponsor asked the project manager to speed up project completion of the current phase to ensure successful onboarding of the new sponsor.
What should the project manager do?
A virtual project team has members located on four continents. The project director is concerned about the declining motivational levels of team members and feelings of noninclusion by other team members. The project director has tasked the project manager with finding a solution.
What should the project manager do?
Two key team members suggest different options to prevent time overruns and delays. There is a conflict between these two team members because of their divergent views.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is preparing a project closure report. The project sponsor is confident about the success of the project, but the client is not sure that the project outputs will achieve their business needs.
Which aspect should the project manager highlight in the closure report to address the stakeholder's concern?
A product owner is invited to a sprint review meeting. At the end of the review, the product owner says that the increment is ready to be delivered to the customer.
What conclusion should the project manager come to with regard to the product owner's statement?
A project is in the start-up phase of the project life cycle. The project team consists of 20 people from five different countries. The project team is scheduled to have quarterly face-to-face meetings. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, no face-to-face meetings can occur. The project manager is concerned that the team may not be able to fulfill their individual roles without face-to-face meetings.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
Project stakeholders have provided a team with requirements that will take at least one year to complete. The project sponsor advised that they need to see some return on investment (ROI) soon.
What should the project manager do?
An operations manager continuously raises concerns about a project's benefits to the company While some concerns are valid most of the time these concerns have caused delays in project meetings
How should the project manager handle this'?
Due to a statewide emergency, a project team for a global insurance company is being forced to complete a project virtually, The project manager is tasked with conducting meetings where confidential patient information will be presented.
What tool should the project manager use to conduct meetings with the project team and clients?
During execution of the third sprint in a project, a project team is uncertain about the frequent updates on the vendor's platform. The team is concerned about how the updates will impact the rest of the backlog.
What should the project manager do to minimize the uncertainty?
A team is using an agile approach to maintain the project backlog. A new project obstacle was identified as a blocker and added to the backlog list. The team is facing challenges to remove this obstacle.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is working on an ongoing construction project. The designer notifies the project manager about materials that were not included in the budget due to a technical mistake.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A project manager is assigned to a new project team that has several stakeholders who can have significant influence over the project outcomes.
The project manager categorized the stakeholders into four different groups and wants to define the communication strategy.
How should the project manager handle communication?
A project manager is assigned to a project in a company that is transitioning to agile Not all stakeholders believe in the project, and some stakeholders would like the entire project defined and planned out early in the project However the project sponsor needs a quick win to ensure the continuation of the project.
What approach should the project manager use?
A project manager notices during project meetings that some team members repeatedly threaten to resign when they do not agree with something. Which phase of conflict escalation is the project in?
A company Is helping their client launch an Innovative product. During the sprint review, the product owner identifies that the product does not include key features that were previously prioritized as part of the product backlog.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager has been assigned to take over an existing software project. The project manager inherited a lean team comprised of key stakeholders, subject matter experts
(SMEs), and senior developers. While reviewing the project status with the team, the project manager observes that the team seems to lack direction and enthusiasm.
What should the new project manager do?
A scrum master noticed that one of the team members is afraid to ask questions, does not like to collaborate with other team members, and avoids taking responsibility for their actions. What is the likely reason that would cause a team member to behave that way?
A project team member who has the expert knowledge necessary for the project is often absent from meetings. The team member sends a message to the project manager questioning them about the rationale behind some decisions made on the project.
How should the project manager handle the situation?
A project manager is facilitating an iteration retrospective. The iteration did not go well and the committed functionality was not delivered to users. The project involves a vendor team for the build and an internal quality assurance (QA) team. In the past, there were tensions between the vendor and the internal team.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been assigned to complete a worksite project that was started by a different project manager. The project is now in the execution stage. Upon careful review, the project manager realizes that the local community was not included in the stakeholder register, which has resulted in extreme opposition from the community.
How should the project manager handle this issue?
A company is working on the prototype of a new contract document that includes visual elements. The product owner shared the project sponsor's feedback about the elements to be included, but the project team pushed back. However, when the project sponsor spoke with the team, they confirmed that all of the changes are possible.
How should the project manager mitigate this situation?
A project leader is preparing to facilitate a sprint retrospective. The sales manager sends the project leader an email asking how a feature planned for the next shipment is being implemented.
What should the project leader do next?
A contractor delivering construction services to a company is using agile principles
to manage the project tasks. Engineers are producing frequent design changes due to new legislation. There is a risk the contractor may lose money due to resources waiting on design
changes or performing rework.
What should the project manager do to minimize the cost?
A project manager receives a request for proposal (RFP) from a client. The client
is very clear about the requirements. A requirements analysis must be done in the first
month of the project, and the client wants to see a demo of the work completed every two
weeks.
What project approach should the project manager use?
A construction project to build a fish hatchery is in execution. The operations group notified the project manager about a concern that might turn into a potential issue; however, the concern could not be addressed.
In which project document should the project manager record the concern?
A team averages 100 story points per iteration. The team estimates there are about another 2,000 points remaining and about 20 iterations remaining. One of the team members suggests estimating by feature because the large stories are difficult to break up.
What should the project manager do?
For an agile pilot project, the sponsor arranged an early product demonstration for the customer. During the meeting, the customer realizes that a new feature will significantly improve the product
After collecting the new requirements, what should the project manager do?
Presented with flowcharts of the organization's operations, stakeholders are unfamiliar with several recorded processes, and others note that some recorded processes were discontinued. The project sponsor notices that the chart is several years old and wants an updated version immediately.
What should the project manager do?
During a regular review, the project manager of an agile project realizes that a key stakeholder is missing critical information about some features being developed. In order to improve communications and reduce the risk of deploying the wrong features, what should the project manager do?
In a fixed time and budget project the customer wants the development of a core component to be based on agile practices, as the final scope of (he requirement has not yet been fully developed. The project manager is participating in contract development with the sales team and wants to ensure that development costs do not impact the profitability of the project.
Which two controls should the project manager incorporate into the contract to specifically address the development of the core component? (Choose two)
Five agile teams working together on a product recently performed release planning Midway through the project, each team showed that their progress was on track When all of the teams integrated at the product level, many integration issues were observed The overall product release progress declined with predictions showing the committed content will not be able to be accomplished
What should the project manager have done differently?
A contractor has been making small changes to the engineering specifications without submitting change requests. The contractor and the technical team did not discuss the changes with the project manager, and the modifications do not affect the budget and quality of the deliverable.
What should the project manager do?
A project using a hybrid approach to migrate from a current system to a new and
enhanced system is underway. The plan is to migrate the system in stages. However, the
operations team is complaining that they are not ready to start supporting the new system.
How should the project manager effectively approach this situation?