Quiz7

During the executing phase, a project manager is reviewing the issue log and finds there are outstanding high-priority issues that are still open. Most of the open issues require effort from external domain experts who are not on the project team. What should the project manager do?

• Ask the issue reporter to close the issues, because there are no project team members who have the required domain knowledge.

• Review the open issues with the issue reporter and issue a change request to hire an external domain expert.

• Request that the project team members learn the required domain knowledge and resolve the open issues in a short time.

• Reduce the project scope to ensure that the project team has the knowledge to deliver the system on schedule.

A project manager is defining the sprint goals with the team, A team member who is responsible for acceptance testing starts criticizing the goals and cannot come to an agreement with the other team members. How should the project manager handle this situation?

• Request to meet with the team member and ask that any issues be escalated separately.

• Reprimand the team member and provide immediate coaching on goal alignment.

• Proceed with defining the goals with the team members given the majority approval from the team.

• Approach the team member with empathy and obtain agreement through collaboration.

An agile project has a documented list or requirements prioritized in high, medium, and low categories. The project team has expressed that it is difficult to know what to work on next as so many items are listed as high priority. What should the project manager recommend?

• Ensure the product owner determines the priority based on a product roadmap. release plan, and iteration plan.

• Ask the team to prioritize the high-priority items based on what they feel is a logical sequence to build.

• Ask the team to prioritize the high-priority Items based on the release plan and what allows tor testing most effectively.

• Discard the current categorization of requirements as high, medium, and low and prioritize numerically.

A project manager is working on a project that will transform the organization's operating model. The project manager reviewed the budget allocation for various phases and was informed that upper management will not approve any additional funds. Knowing that there are no additional funds available, how should the project manager proceed?

• Allocate the budget to the phases of the project and meet with upper management to consolidate the final funds.

• Ensure that the budget is enough to cover the internal resources, since external supplies can be covered by procurement.

• Allocate the budget to the deliveries that have higher business value for the organization than those with lower business value.

• Decide to work on the small deliveries, leaving the big deliveries until the end of the project, and track critical expenses.

A company is implementing a project with team members who are located in different countries and lime zones Performance assessments show that team performance is low because the team doesn't have a common understanding about task distribution. What should the project manager do?

• Colocate the team members

• Perform team-building activities

• Review and reassign tasks

• Revisit the communications management plan

A company has a transformation project in progress. During a planning session, several stakeholders are in constant disagreement and often use personal arguments to support their position. Team members are getting frustrated with the situation. What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

• Established ground rules before the discussion had started.

• Asked stakeholders not to voice their opinions during the meeting.

• Invited a high-level sponsor to the meeting to reduce the level of disagreement.

• Reinforced that higher-level management has the decision power.

A company initiated a departmental transformation project improving the processes for the organization using a predictive approach, This is a critical project for the organization and, in the middle of the project, the project manager noticed that one of the deliverables cannot be produced due to a missing technical skill. What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

• Planned all required training for the team during the onboarding process

• Identified all required skills after the kick-off of the project

• Identified all required skills during the planning of the project

• Asked the sponsor to identify all required skills during the planning of the project

A project manager working on a software development project asked the software development about the status of a task. The developer responded that the task was delivered 1 week ago and mentioned that the delivery was reported via a specific project management software. What should the project manager do next?

• Review the stakeholder engagement plan and communicate which technology is available to develop, transmit, and store project artifacts.

• Engage the software developer, let them work with this project management software, and then conduct a train-the-trainer activity to ensure everyone can use it.

• Research the project management software to understand how it works, and establish it as the acceptable software to hold the project artifacts.

• Review the communications management plan and communicate which technology is to be used to develop, transmit, and store project artifacts.

A project manager is leading a project that involves on-site and remote team members One task that was assigned to a team member in another country appears to be behind schedule When the project manager inquires about this, the team member claims that the task was completed and that this was reported to the team lead via a telephone conversation What should the project manager do?

• Communicate the ground rules, principles and reporting methods to the project stakeholders

• Penalize the project team lead for not updating the project documentation properly.

• Review this issue with the team lead for possible ways to resolve this situation

• Issue guidance to the team member about reporting directly to the project manager

In a standup meeting a team member has been providing the same update for five consecutive days. The task which is on the critical path is now at risk tor delaying the schedule. What should the project manager do?

• Reassign the task to another member of the team

• Support the team member by providing one more resource to complete the task immediately

• Ask the team member if there is an impediment and help to remove the blockers

• Keep the project sponsor informed about the delay