Blank Quiz 125

A project has a very tight delivery schedule The project is approaching the delivery date and the project sponsor often sends the project manager alerts to avoid any schedule slippage The project team has performed at an acceptable level until now but the project manager wants to ensure the team's performance level is maintained until the end. 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

Five agile teams working together on a product recently performed release planning Midway through the project, each team showed that their progress was on track When all of the teams integrated at the product level, many integration issues were observed The overall product release progress declined with predictions showing the committed content will not be able to be accomplished.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

A key project stakeholder who was a big supporter and motivator for the project team is leaving the organization The project team is experiencing low morale and poor teamwork.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

A software project using an agile approach is facing quality issues with every release,generating many production problems.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

A project manager has just finished initiating a project. While planning the project manager notes that several essential team members do not have the required skills for key tasks later in the project. 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

The steering committee has asked a project manager experienced in agile to provide an indication of the time remaining on a medium-sized project 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

A key project stakeholder showed interest in the beginning of a complex agile project but has become less involved as the sprint has progressed due to additional responsibilities A few sprints later, the key stakeholder rejected a feature deliverable The team is reworking the rejected deliverable for the next sprint 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

A project manager is assigned to a new marketing campaign The sponsor gives the project manager an approved project management plan for review and explains the scope, business requirements, deliverables and stakeholders The project manager asks to see the project charter to gain a better understanding of the project. The sponsor says the project is small and simple so there is no need for a project charter.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

In an industrial plant, the owner has decided to add more capacity to the plant by installing a new machine and updating the software used in production. This capacity enlargement will occur while the plant is still functioning and producing The software update will be accomplished using an agile approach in order to minimize risk The machine procurement, installation, and integration will be accomplished using predictive approaches 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

A company wants to increase the commercial value of one of its products in a highly competitive market In order to do this, the company commissions a project to create a prototype The team constructs the prototype incrementally Which 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