Blank Quiz 124

What action should the project manager take to motivate the project team’s performance?

• Send a formal notice to team members instructing them to maintain performance

• Hire a few temporary team members to help with the additional work

• Award certificates of appreciation to encourage the team

• Inform the team about the delivery pressure from the project sponsor

What should the project manager have done differently?

• Formed a separate quality assurance team to test all items coming from each team at the end of each sprint

• Performed a Scrum of Scrums on a regular basis to help the teams remove impediments

• Ensured frequent and continuous integration of work to obtain early feedback and continuous learning

• Arranged an online session on the integration concept and suggested tools to the teams

What should the project manager do to improve morale?

• Identify the wants and aspirations of the team

• Build team connections and emotional bonds

• Forge consensus through team participation.

• Set goals and push the team to achieve the goals

What should the project manager do to fix the problem and improve the quality?

• Seek extra funding approval with the sponsor to replace junior team members for more experienced ones

• Create a reward system granting incentives to the team members who are able to catch more defects

• Hire an external company to add an additional layer of testing, making sure that the final product is well inspected before releasing.

• Use the retrospective meeting to better understand the root cause of the quality problems and put together a plan with the team to address the problems

What should the project manager do first?

• Develop the resource management plan and ensure adequate training

• Replace the current project team members

• Outsource the task to be completed by a specialized vendor.

• Update the issue log to account for the lack of team member qualifications

What tools can be used to provide this information?

• A release burndown chart

• Analysis of the business requirements document

• Story points for the remaining user stories

• Surrogate measurements

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

• Involved the key stakeholders in the decision-making process

• Customized stakeholder communications based on the stakeholders’ needs

• Analyzed the changes in stakeholder attributes

• Documented the project vision and objectives

What should the project manager do?

• Speak with peers about the need for a project charter

• Develop the project charter and send it for approval

• Explain that a project charter is necessary to ensure agreement on scope and deliverables and to define the project manager's responsibilities

• Agree that the project does not require a project charter, especially since the deliverables and milestones are included in the project management plan

What types of communications will the project manager have to design into the schedule management plan to ensure the project will be on schedule?

• Weekly colocated meetings with the relevant stakeholders

• Biweekly conference calls with the relevant stakeholders

• Weekly one-on-one meetings with each of the relevant stakeholders

• Biweekly written status reports from the relevant stakeholders

What action should the project manager take as a priority?

• Emphasize the use of Kanban methodology.

• Ensure the project sponsor is aware of the go-to market date

• Deliver business value as soon as possible

• Implement a plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle