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In a geographically distributed team, a developer continues to delay a coding activity. This activity is on the critical path. The project manager found out that the delay is due to the developer’s lack of understanding of the customer requirements shared by the off-site team.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Replace the developer with a skilled resource.
- B . Perform a root cause analysis (RCA) with the team members.
- C . Facilitate communication to ensure clarification of the requirements.
- D . Conduct frequent performance reviews.
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?
- A . Invited the customer to the daily meetings
- B . Helped the team redefine the MVP
- C . Changed the duration of iterations to deliver more value
- D . Validated the iteration goals with the customer
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 . Acknowledge the impediments and facilitate their resolutions.
- B . Note the impediments and escalate them to the product owner.
- C . Note the impediments and work on addressing them later.
- D . Assign actions to all stakeholders and oversee their implementation.
A project manager is leading a global project with resources spread out in different locations. The stakeholders have different interpretations of the requirements. The project manager is concerned about scope creep.
Which action should the project manager take to control the scope?
- A . Ensure that all key stakeholders agree to the project deliverables and there will be no need for changes.
- B . Accept only those changes to requirements that provide additional value to the project.
- C . Reject all changes that will increase the budget or increase the time line of the project.
- D . Accept only those changes that are approved by the change control board (CCB) prior to being implemented.
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 . Change to an agile model, focusing primarily on the incremental life cycle, leaving the iterative approach as a next step.
- B . Maintain a predictive approach, but increase the focus on better planning and tracking to anticipate problems and avoid delays.
- C . Migrate to an agile model, focusing primarily on an iterative approach, leaving the incremental life cycle as a next step.
- D . Propose a hybrid approach, leveraging the benefits of an agile approach while respecting some aspects of the company’s industry.
A project manager is starting a new project, and the project team is located in different countries. The team was going to use a specific tool to hold virtual meetings.
However, that tool is not available in one team member’s country.
How should the project manager deal with this situation?
- A . Contact the project sponsor to have the team member removed from the project.
- B . Ask the team member to move to another location where the tool is available.
- C . Start the project and use email to communicate with the team member until the tool is available.
- D . Investigate alternative tools for virtual meetings that are available to all team members.
A company is implementing a project with team members located in different countries and time zones. Individual performance is satisfactory, but the team’s performance as a whole is low, especially in terms of group activities.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Negotiate for new team members.
- B . Review and update the communications management plan.
- C . Review and reassign team assignments.
- D . Facilitate communication and team building.
A project is on its second iteration out of six. The team realizes that a key deliverable will depend on the acquisition of a new device.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Register a risk and escalate it to the project sponsor.
- B . Include the responsibility for acquisition with the core team.
- C . Detail the reason for the deliverable delay in the status report.
- D . Invite the stakeholders to discuss prioritization of a new deliverable.
Project acceptance criteria include on-site training for the new users of a system. Due to unforeseen circumstances, all team members have to work remotely for an indefinite period of time.
What should the project manager do?
- A . Reschedule on-site training to online sessions.
- B . Create a risk and assign remediation actions.
- C . Cancel all of the on-site training sessions.
- D . Document the project issue and provide options.
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 . Ask the leadership team for help obtaining the needed staff.
- B . Check with human resources (HR) regarding the availability of staff.
- C . Have a direct talk with the functional manager to understand the reasons behind their attitude.
- D . Evaluate the impact caused by the delay of forming the team and confront the functional manager.