Great 5-1

During the sprint planning of a project, the team members have a disagreement about the comparative size of the backlog items and if they would fit into the next sprint. Considering a hybrid approach, what should the project manager do?

• Ask an external technical leader to provide input and plan the sprint.
• Remove the items from the product backlog since the size couldn't be estimated.
• Make the decision about the backlog items based on what makes more sense.
• Facilitate the discussion so that the team members can reach a consensus.

A project with multiple teams recently transitioned from a predictive approach to agile as requested by the product owner. Midway through implementation, a team member noticed there was no technical capability to support the current business requirement; therefore, the project will need to be reworked and the issue needs to be communicated to all stakeholders. What should the agile project lead have done to avoid this situation?

• Assessed the technical and organizational readiness for the project and identified risks at the beginning of the first iteration
• Requested the product owner's approval to add an external expert to define the acceptance criteria
• Defined a clear acceptance criteria at the initiation phase and continued with the project
• Increased the communications between the team member and the product owner

A protect team member is having difficulty delivering assigned tasks for a project that is at risk of being delayed. The mam issue is that the team member does not understand a new system that was recently implemented. What should the project manager do?

• Ask the team member to learn the new system as on-the-job training
• Issue a change request to extend the project schedule
• Escalate the team members performance to the project sponsor
• Assign an experienced resource to support the team member

A predictive project team come across a scenario where they need to use some agile tools and methods. However, they did not feel this was appropriate since their organizational project management processes did not mention this. What should the project manager do in this scenario?

• Ensure the project team follows the organizational project management processes.
• Create a change request to include the agile methods and proceed to implementation,
• Work with the team to determine appropriate project methods and practices and implement them.
• Prepare a summary and escalate this issue to the project's change control board (CCB),

An agile team completes a deliverable that is to be certified by another expert team. The second team does not take the deliverable for many months. What should the servant leader do?

• Review the process and remove the impediment
• Escalate this to the project director for a resolution
• Remove the certification need from the project scope
• Escalate this to the agile lead of the second team

A company has undertaken a large transformation project using agile practices. The project sponsor has asked the project manager to promote the new values identified in the intended transformation to the project team. What should the project manager do?

• Add a user story during sprint planning that gives recognition to behaviors that are aligned with the new values
• Send a standard email to the team prior to every daily standup containing the new values
• Organize a team meeting focusing on the new values associated with the transformation
• Give recognition to team members' behaviors that are aligned with the new values during the sprint retrospectives

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?

• Assign an experienced resource to support the team member
• Escalate the team member's performance to the project sponsor
• Ask the team member to learn the new system as on-the-job training
• Issue a change request to extend the project schedule

A large and complex program in an agile environment has experienced an increase in escalations from the client side. The rates and responsibilities are unclear, and the client does not have any direction regarding the escalation process. What should be done to resolve this issue?

• Invite the client and product owner to all planning, review, and retrospective meetings.
• Accept the escalations and manage them so the working relationship with the client is not impacted.
• Review and clarify roles, responsibilities, and the governance model at the next sprint review meeting.
• Invite the product owner to attend all Scrum meetings and define the governance model and escalation path.

A project manager noticed that the functional manager is not cooperating with staff assignment schedules and is always finding excuses not to release the requested staff. What should the project manager do first?

• Ask the leadership team for help obtaining the needed staff.
• Have a direct talk with the functional manager to understand the reasons behind their attitude.
• Evaluate the impact caused by the delay of forming the team and confront the functional manager.
• Check with human resources (HR) regarding the availability of staff.

A project manager has considered a detailed and expensive training plan for a new technology for all team members. The training is needed several months into the execution phase of a project Surprisingly. many problems still appear that are related to the team members' lack of competence and the training costs are now negatively impacting the budget baseline. What should the project manager do next?

• Select resources who are more experienced with the new technology
• Perform a root-cause analysis to measure how the new training will address the issue
• Include in the risk register a risk of unskilled resources for the new technology
• Elaborate and socialize the team charter as per the resource management plan