Quiz950

A project manager is building a team that will be comprised of subject matter experts (SMEs) from two different divisions of the same company. The project team will be virtual and will include members from different countries around the world. What should the project manager do to ensure effective team building occurs?

• Coordinate with team members to define and communicate ways of working, roles and responsibilities, scheduling, time zone, and cultural observance information.

• Explain to the team that since they are all SMEs and know one another, they are expected to immediately collaborate and deliver effectively.

• Update the communications management plan and determine an issue resolution process for when furture conflicts arise.

• Colocate the team members at the beginning of the project to explain the expectations for team interaction, meeting schedules, and overall project governance.

During the development of a product, multiple identified risks have now become issues, which is hindering the team's velocity. What should the project manager do in this situation?

• Document the issues and extend the project delivery timeline.

• Convene the steering committee and inform them of the impact to the project.

• Prioritize the user stories with issues and have the team resolve them

• Update the project management plan and risk management plan.

A protect manager is working with the team lo deliver a project in a company that uses different delivery methods. The project manager is concerned about the communication channels currently suggested by the project management office (PMO) because some information is taking too much time to reach the team members causing negative consequences for delivery. How should the project manager avoid this situation in the future?

• Use the same methods until the end of the current delivery and suggest new ones during the retrospective.

• Refer to the policies and frameworks used at the company enterprise level and inform the project team members.

• Tell the sponsor that the project manager will use their own communication model to ensure on-time delivery.

• Agree with the project team on a suitable collaboration and make sure information is shared at all times

A project team identified a low-cost software product available for purchase that would drastically reduce the scope of development. The development manager has confirmed that this tool would fulfill the business need. What should the project manager do?

• Remind the team that their primary responsibility is software development.

• Add a user story to the product backlog to test the software product.

• Discuss the Option in the next daily standup meeting to finalize the decision.

• Recommend the option to the product owner for consideration.

An agile project is in the seventh iteration with multiple changes being accommodated from the project start due such as regulatory changes technological innovations market competition and other changes What should the project manager do to manage these continuous changes coming into the project?

• Ask the product owner to stop accommodating further changes to the scope

• Leverage the product owner to monitor the external environment

• Accommodate the critical and urgent changes in the current iteration

• Suggest to the product owner to execute the changes in a separate project

A protect is going through its iterative design stage One of the team members has been performing poorly. This is a critical project for the company and execution is about to start What should the project manager do?

• Request action from the functional manager regarding the team members poor performance

• Avoid selecting the team member to the next project that has an iterative design stage

• Provide feedback and coach the team member during the iterative design stage

• Escalate the issue to the human resources manager and request that the team member be replaced

A key stakeholder has recently started in a company and has been assigned to a hybrid project. Although very experienced in their domain, the stakeholder has only been exposed to predictive project approaches. What should the project manager do?

• Inform the stakeholder that they must level their knowledge with other stakeholders.

• Update the risk register with the potential impact and apprise the steering committee.

• Inform the project management office (PMO) that the team will use a predictive approach for this project.

• Allocate time to mentor the stakeholder in the selected project approach.

A project manager is evaluating a project and realizes that its earned value (EV) shows the cost spent is higher than the value delivered. The project manager then discovers that the team has been adding small features that are not part of the requirements. What should the project manager do?

• Ask the team to focus on and deliver only the agreed-upon features.

• Request additional budget because additional features are being added.

• Encourage the team to continue, as this will eventually help the customer.

• Ask the product owner to add the additional features to the requirements.

A client comes to the company asking to copy a project that was executed 2 years ago in the same city, with the expectation that the new project will have the same cost and duration. While finalizing the project management plan, the project manager realizes that the baseline costs are much higher than the original project. What could the project manager have done to avoid this?

• Verified applicable budget inputs related to this project

• Assigned the same project resources to this project

• Estimated a budget for the project's quality management

• Determined a budget reserve for this project

A project manager has decided to stop activities that do not add value to a project that has a risk of running over budget. A functional manager disagrees with this decision, especially when the team is performing product testing for highly sensitive end users. The functional manager escalated the issue to the project sponsor so that the team can resume activities. How should the project manager have handled the situation?

• Collaborated with the functional manager to determine which critical activities could be accommodated by the budget

• Engaged with the project sponsor to ensure support for the project manager's decision

• Conducted a meeting with the functional manager to explain why the activities needed to be stopped

• Convinced the functional manager to stop the activities that will run beyond the budget