Project Management Study Group - PMP Agile Test

1. How can an Agile team ensure that the features an Agile team is developing and releasing delivers the maximum value to the business ?

• A. Servant-leader collaborates with the team

• B. Team collaborates with the feature users/customers.

• C. Product owner collaborates with feature users/customers.

• D. Team collaborates with the product owner.

Answer explanation

Solution :

C. Product owner collaborates with feature users/customers.

Reason:

The product owner represents the customer on an Agile team; the Agile team doesn’t directly collaborate with the customer. Only customers/end users can determine the value of a required (or already developed) feature.

[Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 41] (Domain: Process, Task 8)

2. A short, 15-minute meeting at the start of the working hours in which the complete team gets together for a quick status update, called ?Your project team has recently completed the 3rd iteration on the project. So far 45 story points have been successfully delivered to the customer. For this project, the iteration size is fixed at three weeks. The team (six team members) is dedicated to working five days per week. Looking at the backlog, you have 150 story points remaining to be delivered. How many more weeks are required to complete the project?

• A. 10 weeks

• B. 20 weeks

• C. 30 weeks

• D. 40 weeks

Answer explanation

Solution : C. 30 weeks

Reason:

Since the team has successfully delivered 45 stories in three iterations, the velocity is 15 stories per iteration. There are 150 more story points to be delivered, which will require another 10 iterations (150/15). Since each iteration is fixed at three weeks, the expected completion time is 10 x 3 = 30 weeks.

[Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 61] (Domain: Process, Task 6)

3. You are leading a green-field ERP system design and development project. It is critical that each team member’s work products are frequently integrated and validate with one another to get a better . Which Agile technique should you encourage the team to use?

• A. Continuous Improvement

• B. Continuous Integration

• C. Continuous Adaptive Delivery

• D. Continuous Validation

Answer explanation

Solution :

B. Continuous Integration

Reason

Continuous Integration is a practice in which each team member’s work products are frequently integrated and validated with one another.

[Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 151] (Domain: Process, Task 1)

4. You have recently setup an Agile PMO in your organization. The organization has been successfully using Agile on all organizational projects for a while but it was thought that a central PMO will add further value. You are considering to setup an invitation-oriented PMO. What is the main benefit of this approach?

• A. Inviting only those interested to engage with PMO services results in higher engagement with PMO practices

• B. An invitation-oriented PMO mandates certain solutions or approaches to get some quick wins

• C. An invitation-oriented PMO focuses on business goal alignment instead of employee engagement and delivers higher business value.

• D. Invitation-oriented PMOs usually invite higher value projects to engage with them and maximizes value per project ratio.

Answer explanation

Solution ::

A. Inviting only those interested to engage with PMO services results in higher engagement with PMO practices.

Reason:

Invitation-oriented PMOs invite only those interested to engage with PMO services. This usually results in higher engagement with PMO practices and makes it easier for those practices to be “sticky”.

[Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 81] (Domain: Process, Task 13)

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Measurement

Domain: Process

5. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available. In Agile teams, a single person’s throughput is not relevant. Focusing on a single person’s throughput may be risky because it might:

• A. Increase the sprint duration and lead time

• B. Decrease the throughput

• C. Increase the cycle time and cost of the project

• D. Create a bottleneck for the rest of the team.

Answer explanation

Solution : D. Create a bottleneck for the rest of the team.

Reason:

The throughput of a single team member should not affect the project scope, sprint duration or the cost of the project. However, it might create a bottleneck for the rest of the team members due to the difference in individual throughputs.

[Agile Practice Guide, 1st edition, Page 42] (Domain: People, Task 7)

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Team

Domain: People