PMP SG

A project manager is facilitating a sprint retrospective meeting where the team members discuss customer dissatisfaction from the product increment they delivered during the sprint. The discussion reveals some issues with the remote team members who were primarily using email to communicate with the rest of the team.

What was the most likely cause the product increment did not meet customer expectations?

• Failure to respond to changes in scope

• Non colocated team members

• Delivering working software in each sprint

• Demotivated team members

You are leading a project to replace an aging bridge spanning a river in a heavily populated area. The new bridge would include a pedestrian pathway, that is not a feature of the existing bridge. The bridge is well under construction when residents learn the pathway would allow strangers to enter their neighborhood at all times. The residents demand the elimination of the pathway.

What would have been the best course of action to avoid this situation?

• Identify the pathway as a possible point of contention with stakeholders early in the project

• Nothing could have been done differently because the project was authorized per project charter

• Engage a public relations company to handle community outreach once local residents voiced their disapproval

• Reroute the pathway entrance during construction to an old railway train instead of the local street

You are managing a project team that has recently been expanded by new team members working remotely from another country. their roles have been outlined to from a preliminary team charter. Nevertheless, you have noticed a considerable lack of acceptance of cultural differences in the team, resulting in frequent conflicts.

Which of the following techniques could help you in this situation? (Choose three answers)

• Focus groups

• Role definition

• Ground rules

• Ability tests

• Meetings

Customer requirements for the new application to be developed by an agile team limit the technology choices to only two approaches. The team members are not familiar with any of them and ask the scrum master for advice.

Which of the following should the scrum master recommend to select the best approach?

• A risk-based spike

• Exploratory testing

• An architectural spike

• Prototyping

You are leading a project with a critical time constraint and cannot afford any project delays. An argument between two project team members over a report format to document their testing result turns into a shouting match. The team members draw you into their argument. You realize that resolving the conflict would delay the project timeline.

What is your best course of action?

• Tell the team members to figure it out for themselves

• Look for an approach that would completely satisfy both team members

• Request the team members to go back to work to avoid any further delays

• Select the report format that you think is best and make decision

You have been assigned to lead an initiative for which the business case has not been sufficiently made to get approval to initiate a hybrid project. In some of the past project, teams realized too late into project execution that no one in the company had the skills needed to build some of the features, so it was developed by a contractor, resulting in cost overruns.

What would yo do differently in your assignment to avoid cost overruns?

• Start with a proof of concept

• Use burndown charts for reporting

• Developed a project charter

• Encourage team knowledge sharing

You are leading a software development project for a client. Due to unstable requirements, you have elected to use a

change-driven life cycle. You are currently facilitating an iteration planning meeting with the product owner and the development team.

What should you do as part of the meeting?

• Control the scope to prevent scope creep

• Review the product increment and get feedback

• Make sure the scope of the iteration is fixed

• Recommend improvements for the next iteration

You have been assigned to manage an agile project to develop various analytical tools for your company's executive

team. Everyone involved in the project is new to agile methodologies. After the first few tools are released, the executives

are frustrated that the tools they needed the most are still in the pipeline for future development.

What might you have done differently to avoid this issue?

• Provided the product owner with the training on how to prioritize the product backlog

• Trained the development team on pair-programming and code refactoring

• Explained that agile focuses on developing the highest-risk features last to avoid early failure

• Colocated the development team to take advantage of osmotic communication

A project manager is assigned to an agile software development project for a large banking corporation. With the project

just getting underway, the project manager has learned about new hacking tactics that present a potential threat to

regulatory compliance for the project.

What should the project manager do next?

• Review the risks during the project retrospective

• Analyze the consequences of non-compliance

• Submit a change request to update the risk management plan

• Develop a cumulative flow diagram

An organization has established a controlling project management office (PMO). The first task of the PMO is to update

the guidelines for project compliance in the organization.

Which of the following could the PMO enforce? (Choose three.)

• Use of particular project management methodologies

• Adoption of specific templates, forms, and tools

• Adherence to local health regulations

• Conformance to governance frameworks

• Assignment of project managers by the PMO