MOCK 4 -NHÓM 1

A project manager is in a cross-functional agile team. The project manager has been assigned a software project with multiple features that will take the team about a year to complete. The CEO is insisting that the solution needs to meet business goals for the year end, which is due in 6 months. What should the project manager do to align stakeholders' needs and expectations?

• Work with the stakeholders to create a prioritized backlog and release a roadmap.
• Modify the requirements to those that can be completed in 6 months.
• Implement fast-tracking and crashing activities to complete the project in 6 months.
• Include all stakeholders in daily scrum meetings to keep them informed.

A project manager is managing a project to deploy new software to 200 end users. During the implementation, there is a missed process that caused some of the users to lose their computer data. What should the project manager do first?

• Meet with the team to discuss the root cause, encourage the team to take note of it and continue to focus on the deployment.
• Record this case until the final lessons learned session is complete to prevent impacting the team's morale during implementation.
• Stop the implementation, and request the team to investigate the root cause of problem as soon as possible.
• Invite a consultant to review the process in order not to repeat the same issue and share the results with the team.

A project manager is assigned to a major construction project. The project is critical to the city's population, and especially to the local government official who committed to delivering the project on time as an election promise. A new project sponsor has been assigned and wants to include aspects that the previous project sponsor did not support. What should the project manager do next?

• Meet with the new project sponsor to review the current project scope and the requested changes.
• Rebaseline the project as there is now a new project sponsor, which is presenting an opportunity to review and recalibrate the project objectives.
• Invite the project sponsor to a briefing with the project team to demonstrate progress and seek further support to meet project-committed deliverables.
• Inform the new project sponsor that the new aspects will not be included in this project.

In an agile team, some of the team members are coming forward to ask for more autonomy on the project. What should the project manager do in this situation?

• Encourage the team lead to make decisions.
• Encourage the team members to make decisions.
• Discourage them as conflicts may be created.
• Discourage this request, as it is for the management team.

A project had scheduling delays, which necessitated the team to work overtime to meet critical milestones. This led to some misunderstandings among team members. The project sponsor has allocated a monetary award. How should the project manager utilize the award?

• Meet with the team members and ask them how to spend the reward.
• Arrange a luncheon for all team members and include team-building sessions.
• Draft a points system to allocate a portion of the money for each resource.
• Allocate the reward to the team leaders to spend on the team as they see fit.

A company is conducting a digital transformation project that has a hard deadline. The marketing team wants to combine this implementation with a new product, and the newly assigned project manager is not aware of all the dependencies. Using a hybrid approach, what should the project manager do to ensure the dependencies are taken into consideration?

• Implement a project newsletter so the different team members can be informed about the progress of each project.
• Make sure that each individual project schedule is aligned with the common deadlines.
• Combine all of the small projects into one big project so the team can collaborate better as one big team.
• Facilitate communication promoting a Scrum of Scrums so the different teams are aware of the dependencies and progress.

During an agile project, a project manager lost one of the resources, and at the same time, uncovered new requirements, which were added to the backlog. What should the project manager do next?

• Reevaluate the backlog priority with the product owner since the velocity has been impacted.
• Reevaluate the scope of the current iteration to keep the same velocity and timeline.
• Reevaluate the velocity as the iteration duration will be impacted by new requirements.
• Reevaluate the project schedule as the velocity will be impacted by the loss of resources.

An agile project will be delivered to a client based on a fixed price in cryptocurrency. Due to the volatility of cryptocurrency, both parties have agreed to adjust the scope to the value of the cryptocurrency at the end of every iteration and halt the project when the agreed price is reached. Which approach should be used in this situation?

• A flow-based approach starting with the smallest stories.
• An iterative approach starting with the highest value epic.
• A predictive approach with short phases.
• An incremental approach with a minimum viable product (MVP).

A project is about to start. The project manager has found that the client does not have an appropriate knowledge management system and does not have a requirement for it. What should the project manager do?

• Provide just-in-time knowledge to the client, upon request.
• Utilize the cloud wiki to collect the necessary knowledge.
• Ask the team to collect the knowledge locally and share it at the end of the project.
• Coordinate with the team and the project stakeholders to collect the knowledge.

A team has individual daily start times for each team member. Sometimes the overlap between team member working hours is short. During those times, the interactions and work as a team are reduced and ineffective. What should the project manager do?

• Inform the team members who are joining late to join early and work together.
• Allocate the overlap time for each team member and ask them to adhere to the schedule.
• Ask the team to define a team charter and agree on core working hours.
• Ask the team to start at the same time to obtain the maximum number of team worki