Prep-Cast CAPM Domain#3 : Agile Framework/Methodologies

A new project will require extensive stakeholder involvement and is expected to produce its first deliverable as soon as one month after getting the green light to proceed. The deliverable is anticipated to have a high degree of innovation. The performing organization operates in an industry that has considerable regulatory oversight.

What development approach should the project manager recommend for this project?

• Adaptive

• Predictive

• Hybrid

• D

  Innovative

Match the followingYou are planning a project where requirements cannot be defined upfront. This situation presents various challenges to managing the scope of this project. You know that an agile project management approach may help in addressing some of the challenges.

Match the challenges (on the left) with how they are approached in agile (on the right):

• Grooming and reprioritizing the product

• The inability to define scope upfront

• Demonstrating product increments to stak

• Gap between the initial requirements and real requirements

• Building and reviewing prototypes

• Frequent changes in customer priorities

• Ongoing discovery and refinement of the

• Risk of building a wrong product

An agile project has entered its seventh sprint. Two days before the end of the sprint, the customer informs the product owner that they forgot to include one feature in the sprint. A senior manager overhears the conversation and states that including the feature represents scope creep and should not be allowed.

What is the product owner's best course of action?

• Work with the customer to prioritize the feature in the product backlog

• Request that the customer submit a change request

• Instruct the team to develop the feature in the current sprint

• Reject the feature as instructed by the senior manager

You meet with your team to determine the life cycle for your project. After analyzing the best way to define and manage requirements, develop deliverables, handle changes, control risk and cost, and engage key stakeholders, the decision is made to select a hybrid life cycle.

With the project life cycle selected, how often will the key stakeholders be involved?

• Continuously

• At specific milestones

• Regularly

• Not involved at all

The product owner needs to consider multiple factors when adding items to the product backlog of an agile project.

How should this be done?

• Consider factors such as new features, risks, and defects

• Build the backlog from the work breakdown structure (WBS)

• Consult with the sponsor on how to add items to the backlog

• Let the team decide on what should be added to the backlog

A project manager facilitates an iteration retrospective meeting. The team members acknowledge that they were unable to meet the iteration goal. To gain insights into velocity and see what can be improved going forward, the participants analyze the burndown chart of the iteration, trying to correlate working days with the number of story points completed on those days.

Assuming no scope has been added throughout the iteration, during which period was the gap between the plan and story points remaining the largest?

(On the actual exam, you will be requested to click the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, please select the answer below.)

• A

• B

• C

• D

The latest software released to the customer in the first project phase is full of defects. The customer is angry and demands that the development of the new release, which is planned to be delivered in the second phase, is much more transparent. The customer wants to see the team's results more regularly and without very long development intervals in-between.

Which of the following could the project team introduce in the second phase to better comply with the customer's demand? (Choose four.)

• A cadence with regular timeboxes

• Regular and frequent retrospectives

• Optimization at the level of each individual team member

• Test-driven development practices

• Incremental delivery using a backlog

As a scrum master, you are facilitating a retrospective for a sprint that failed to meet all of its objectives. Members of the development team and the product owner are arguing over who is responsible for the failure. After performing a root cause analysis, you uncover the source of the conflict.

Of the following, what did you most likely discover?

• The product owner determined how many user stories were to be completed during the sprint

• The development team decided how many user stories were to be completed during the sprint

• You, as the scrum master, failed to assign user stories to the development team

• The Gantt chart did not include enough story points

During a sprint review, a stakeholder suggests adding a feature to the product. A quick analysis shows that the proposed functionality would significantly increase the project cost. However, everyone agrees that the value the new feature brings will be notably greater than the cost of developing it.

What should the scrum master do?

• Thank the stakeholder for their input, but reiterate that the proposal would be out of scope

• Instruct the team to develop the feature and cover the costs using the management reserve

• Confer with the relevant authority to seek approval for the additional scope and budget

• Apply the Cynefin framework model to evaluate the actual cost-benefit value of the new feature

A software development company has grown quickly and now employs five scrum masters. To better coordinate activities and shared resources between the projects, the business is transitioning from scrum to SAFe® as an overarching project management framework.

What strategy will most benefit the business in addressing the interdependencies between projects?

• Hiring a program manager to ensure decision making across the projects is centralized

• Applying systems thinking by taking a holistic view of how the projects and their parts interact

• Ensuring that each project operates within a silo led by a dedicated scrum master

• Having the scrum masters remove distractions by limiting communication between project teams