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During the service procurement process for a strategic project, only one bidder submitted a bid. The price of the offer is significantly large and the project sponsor is not convinced that the return on investment (ROI) can be achieved.
How should the project manager address this issue?
A team is finishing the third release to present to the stakeholder as part of a demonstration. The company that subcontracts the developers has communicated that there is a cash flow problem and the company will not be able to provide the same resources for the next iterations.
What should the project manager do next?
In the middle of a software development project, the lead design programmer accepted an offer from a competitor. The project manager needs to find a replacement to meet an upcoming milestone.
What should the project manager do?
Companies A and B are codeveloping a cutting-edge technology product. Based on customer feedback, the marketing department urgently requests a new feature in 2 weeks. Company A's front end is ready, but company B requires 4 weeks to deliver the complete back end and is busy with the current release.
What should the project manager do to obtain agreement from both companies and acceptance from marketing?
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 agile team is working on a 2-week sprint to deliver business value. About 1 week after the sprint starts, the team members do not feel
confident about the product increment they are building. They do not want to wait until the end of the sprint and want to validate the product
increment with the product owner now.
What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?
An organization embarking on a significant transformation initiated a project to improve and document business processes. One of the objectives of the project is to implement agile project delivery.
What is the main reason for adopting agile?
The team lead on a project has left the organization and management wants to promote engineer A to this position. The project manager is confident that selecting engineer A will add problems to the project and believes that engineer B would better fit this role. The project manager discussed all of the arguments with management but their decision remains unchanged.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is leading a project that has a dependency on the client's vendor management system for critical requirements. The vendor
management team will not derive any benefits from the project. However, the project requires support from the vendor management head.
What should the project manager do next?
A new project needs to be submitted for urgent funding approval. The project, which will use a new technology, is vital to the organization. The entire Scrum team has worked together for over 3 years on multiple projects and delivered the previous project under the approved budget.
Which estimation technique should the project manager implement in this context?
A company must implement a new regulation. The government has specified the date when the regulation will be enforced but has only provided high-level information on
the regulation's requirements. Therefore, changes in definitions are to be expected due to uncertainty.
Which life cycle should the project manager use for this project?
In the initiating phase of a project, the project manager and team members are prioritizing the product backlog along with the product owner. What should the project
manager do next?
A company has selected a cross-functional team to develop an innovative digital product to drive the digital transformation project for the business. What should the project
manager do to ensure business value is delivered early?
A project manager is leading a project in which the product requirements have not been fully met due to several uncertainties about customer acceptance. What should the project manager do?
During project initiation meetings, the project manager of a 9-month project states that a specific task would be out of schedule. At the project
kick-off meeting, a key project stakeholder strongly objects, stating that this task is the key value of the project and should be completed on time.
What should the project manager do to reduce the chances of having a strong rejection from stakeholders during the project initiation stage?
A company plans to initiate a project involving a new technology. Approval for the project is required. What should the project manager do?
A project manager in a matrix organization has been assigned to a system solution project with tight time lines. There are two resources assigned as part of the solution
team: one who is experienced and one who is new. During development, the project manager notices that the resources disagree on the solution approach.
What should the project manager do next to deliver a reliable solution?
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?
A key project team member is out on sick leave in the middle of a critical project iteration. The project sponsor learns that any delay with the end-of-iteration release will displease the business stakeholders. Although all team members are cross-functional, they are also working close to full capacity.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
A project manager finds it challenging to comply with standardized processes for knowledge transfer. The project teams and stakeholders are scattered around field sites,
the office, and remote locations. In addition, some team members have limited access to the electronically shared files.
How should the project manager manage this challenge?
A company has started developing a new product. During execution the project team notices that another competitor has launched a product with
very similar functionalities and a cheaper market price.
What should have been done differently to avoid this scenario?
A project manager was recently assigned to rescue a high-priority project for an Olympic facility. The project is behind schedule, with a heavy contractual penalty. The former project manager had numerous conflicts with the project team members and a few stakeholders.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager is assigned to a new project. The project is for a new product that the company wants to launch as soon as possible to test market readiness. The project is part of a large business transformation, and the objective is to open delivery channels for the new product.
Which delivery approach should the project manager recommend?
A project manager had to schedule additional planning sessions to add requirements from an international stakeholder. The stakeholder expressed concern about the product not meeting the client's needs.
Which factor should the project manager have considered when developing the product?
A project manager was informed by their supplier that there will be an upcoming raw material shortage due to a regulatory change. What should the project manager do?
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?
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?
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 project team has expressed concern that certain remote team members are not able to collaborate with the larger project team due to their work schedule. The project
manager is confused since the entire team is located in the same time zone and believes there are other factors at play.
What should the project manager do next?
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 manager has been given a critical, 5-day window and is allocated a maximum of US$100,000 as a contingency reserve. Subsequently, the project manager drafted
a course of action based upon the best available information. Overall, five actions were required to be completed at a cost of US$20,000 and a duration of 1 day each. After
3 days of work, the project manager completed two actions and spent US$80,000.
What should the project manager do next?
An internal virtual team is meeting daily to review iteration progress, as well as to conduct other technical and followup calls with key stakeholders. The team seems to be disengaged.
How should the project manager approach this situation?
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 company is going through structural changes. A couple of people will leave the company as their positions were made redundant. The team members are unhappy as they do not understand why the changes are being made when the project is on track.
What should the 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 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 project team is prioritizing the creation of project artifacts and enforcing it rigidly, while they face issues with delays in deliverables. How should the project manager respond?
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?
Drag the communication event on the left to the main subject discussed during the event on the right.
product development team has team members located in four different countries. A senior manager is assigned the task of recruiting a project manager to manage this
project and the virtual team.
Which skill is required for a project manager to successfully manage this team?
A product team is comprised of consultants and staff members Most of the team members agree on risks and the defined risk actions. One consultant discovers a new risk and communicates it directly to management.
What should the project manager do?
During project execution, a global project team was using a video conferencing tool to support the daily meetings. However, during these meetings, only a few team members were actively participating As a result lots of misunderstandings occurred
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
An established project team with a good track record has been working on a project for one year The project manager trusts the team and the work they produce. Which term describes the project manager's management approach?
As the project progresses, the learns not performing at acceptable levels and in accordance with the key performance indicators (KPls) that were set at the beginning of the
project. How should the project manager resolve this?
A project manager /s planning a project and identifies that legislation requirements for specific project tasks will be changing. This will occur half way through the project execution
phase and will affect a few key workers’ licenses, which will become noncompliant.
What should the project manager do?
A project is being delayed due to a large amount of rework caused by a quality problem that is impacting the critical path. What should the project manager do?
A company has transitioned and is now delivering projects using a hybrid approach
instead of a predictive approach. The distributed project team's knowledge of agile is varied.
The project manager feels this new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project.
What should the project manager do?
As a result of the first iteration review, the stakeholders' feedback indicated that they saw more technical features than business ones What should the project manager do?
An agile team recently started working on a project for a financial institution. The
project sponsor is concerned that an agile approach will not provide enough support for the
organization's compliance standards.
In order to mitigate this risk and avoid problems, what should the project manager do?
A compliance strategy was created during the planning phase of a project During execution, the project manager left the organization and another project manager was assigned to the team
What should the project manager do first to ensure the project is compliant?
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