Practice1

A key stakeholder for a construction project has been spending a lot of time at the site and interrupting the team's efforts What should the project manager do in this situation?

• Work to understand the key stakeholder's concerns and provide feedback in regular project status reports

• Arrange an ad hoc meeting to address the key stakeholder's concerns with team members

• Reinforce with the key stakeholder that the project is performing on schedule

• Escalate the situation to the project sponsor because the key stakeholder's behavior is impacting progress

During the implementation of a project the project team discovered a new opportunity After an internal review the project team agreed that the opportunity is outside of the project scope The project manager decided to update the risk register and escalate the opportunity to a higher level.What should the project manager do next with this opportunity?

• Share this opportunity with another project

• Establish a contingency reserve to support the opportunity

• Further monitor the opportunity

• No more action is required

After reviewing the project management plan with key stakeholders, the project manager was told that an 18-month release plan was unacceptable and the product should launch in six months. Based on the new timeline, what should the project manager do?

• Plan for overtime, apply crashing and fast tracking and share the risk of failure with project stakeholders.

• Review the project backlog looking for high-priority items and come up with a minimum viable product (MVP) that fits the expected timeline

• Seek approval with the sponsor to triple the project budget, hiring more people to compensate for the compressed schedule

• Go over the critical path with stakeholders, explaining why it is not possible to deliver all the scope in the expected timeline

During the course of a project the project manager's immediate director is communicating directly with the client to approve changes without the project manager's knowledge This is causing confusion in the project team where the scope is changing in the background, but only being mentioned in project meetings.How should the project manager handle this?

• Communicate directly with the director and inform them of the communications management plan

• Communicate directly with the client stating that any scope changes must go through the project manager

• Review the stakeholder engagement plan and put in place any existing actions accordingly

• Discuss the issues with the project team and let them know that the project manager will handle scope changes

The project manager has observed that two team members have been arguing with each other openly at meetings To push their ideas through, each team member individually spoke with the sponsor directly and made decisions without informing the project manager or other team members.What two actions should project manager take? (Choose two)

• Ask the team members to work it out themselves

• Discuss this situation with other project managers and ask for advice

• Reiterate ground rules at the next meeting and ensure that all team members are clear about these rules.

• Address the behavioral issue with each team member

• Discuss the behavior directly with their managers and request them to correct the behavior.

A product company is transforming the way it develops and releases products in the market Executives believe that this is a high-risk initiative, and this initiative must be successful.What should the project manager do in this scenario?

• Develop a business case with assumptions for the new model

• Develop a communications management plan to inform the employees about the new business model

• Adopt an iterative rollout approach that delivers the highest business value earlier

• Develop a detailed sprint plan with clear deliverables

A project manager is assigned to lead a newly formed agile team. The functional manager has assigned tasks to team members, but the team members do not feel empowered.How can the project manager promote empowerment and accountability among the team?

• Assign the tasks individually based on the role of the team member to ensure expertise on the subject.

• Encourage and assign the team to perform demos of their products or software with the customers

• Give the team autonomy to make their own decisions on how to perform the tasks.

• Encourage the team to keep the product owner involved when choosing ways to resolve the given task

A project manager has been asked to lead a project. The performing organization does not have a project management office (PMO) or formal governance policies procedures, and guidelines for this type of project What should the project manager do first to determine a governance approach for the project?

• Consult a subject matter expert (SME) as to the best governance policies, procedures, and guidelines to be used by the project

• Consult with team members and stakeholders to determine whether the organization has any informal governance policies procedures, and guidelines

• Choose either a predictive or agile framework best suited to the nature of the project, and use this framework as the basis for project governance policies, procedures, and guidelines

• Coach the self-managing team to produce tailored governance policies, procedures and guidelines for the project

In the beginning of project execution, the project manager finds out that a key resource will be unavailable for r two weeks which could cause a delay to the schedule What should the project manager do first?

• Assign the tasks to another resource, and ask the resource to work double shifts

• Update the schedule to reflect the project's changes in duration

• Ask human resources (HR) for a replacement, and update the nsk register

• Update the resource management plan and resource allocation chart accordingly

During a retrospective review, many project team members say they are not completing tasks during the iterations because of interruptions and requests for help from other teams As a team facilitator, what should the project manager do to avoid this?

• Identify the problem's root causes and define the ground rules with all project team members to minimize interferences

• Hire a coach to help all project teams to improve their abilities to solve problems on their own.

• Reunite with the project team members affected and tell them not to reduce the team's capacity

• Recommend to the project team members that they should improve their planning and make their stones smaller