PMI-ACP (10D)

A development team working on a new software product is facilitating product demonstrations every four weeks at the end of each sprint. The company requests more frequent demos.

What should the project manager do?

• Continue demos every four weeks to align with the end of each sprint.

• Have the company participate in agile training to understand the cadence for sprint reviews.

• Work with the team to shorten sprint durations.

• Schedule product mid-sprint retrospectives.

A team finds a flaw in the system architecture. What should the team have done to avoid this?

• Required the business people and developers to work together throughout the project

• Recommended that the architecture be designed and supported by motivated individuals

• Ensured continuous attention to technical and design excellence to enhance agility

• Used self-organizing teams to produce the architecture, requirements, and designs

An experienced technical leader of agile teams must develop a new, complex component for a new project. What should the technical leader do to ensure that the architecture and high-level designs are comprehensive and understood by the team?

• Develop the initial architecture and high-level design then discuss with the team.

• Conduct a brainstorming session with stakeholders and the team and create the deliverables.

• Create a story for the deliverables and assign it to the most senior person on the team.

• Create the architecture and high-level design and train the team.

At the end of an iteration, a stakeholder requests a copy of the team's unit test code coverage and user acceptance test cases. However, the team did not complete them for this iteration.

What should the project leader do for the next iteration?

• Include the acceptance criteria for each story when writing the unit test code coverage and user acceptance test cases.

• Discuss stakeholder expectations at the retrospective, and decide on corrective actions.

• Adapt the team's process to ensure that unit test code coverage and user acceptance test cases are documented.

• Agree upon the definition of done (DoD), and communicate it to all stakeholders and the team.

In what situation should a Scrum team create a spike?

• The team does not have the knowledge to complete a task.

• A firm estimate for a story cannot be established.

• Consultants have been brought in to supplement team resources.

• A new team member is being updated on the project.

Members of a new agile team have no experience working with each other. What should the team do to develop its estimates, besides reaching consensus?

• Agree on a project goal that is focused on decreasing cycle times.

• Create estimates that are done with just enough accuracy

• Use a process that yields milestones at short, regular intervals..

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  Develop a process that adds buffers to resource efforts.

A development team wants to receive better customer feedback during product reviews. What should the team do?

• Ask the customer to operate the product's features during the review, and record the customer's reactions.

• Ask the team's business systems analyst to operate the product's feature for the customer during the review.

• Show the product's feature codes during the review to enable better understanding of coding operations.

• Email detailed image documentation of the product's features to the customer for their independent review.

How should a project lead ensure that stakeholders are aware of a project's progress?

• Present stakeholders with relevant data compiled in graphs.

• Involve the stakeholders at every level of the decision-making process.

• Provide stakeholders with metrics and lessons learned from similar previous projects.

• Showcase specific prioritization techniques to reassure stakeholders that important feature requirements are being implemented.

A stakeholder excited about a new app requests that it be included in the current project. A team member states that this exceeds project scope.

What should the team do next?

• Ask the legal department to renegotiate the contract terms.

• Finish the existing project, and ask the product owner to create a new project to add the app.

• Ask the product owner to add and reprioritize stories.

• Request an evaluation of project documents by the legal department to determine if it can be included.

A company owner attends the development team's sprint review meetings, but fails to understand the agile terminology. What should the project manager do prior to the next sprint review?

• Ask the development team to avoid the use of agile terminology.

• Schedule a series of agile training meetings with the company owner.

• Rework agile processes to align with more established terminology.

• Develop an alternative vocabulary for agile words and phrases.