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During the planning for a long project, the project manager recognized that several members of the team are new to their roles. How should the project manager incorporate this into planning?

• Increase the overall project duration to account for the inexperienced team members on the project.

• Ensure planning has accounted for replacing team members in new project roles who do not deliver on project goals.

• Assess the training requirements and ensure time for professional development training by senior members.

• Revisit the project resource allocation to remove the inexperienced team members assigned to the project.

An agile team has started a new project. When should the project manager organize their first team retrospective?

• When the team completes a release of a monumental increment

• When the team reaches a major milestone

• When more than a few weeks have passed

• When the work is progressing well through the team

The change control board (CCB) has approved a change request to add a new component within a product. The operations manager discovers the change after its approval and complains that the implementation of the change will cause significant disruption to the production line. What should the project manager do first?

• Escalate the issue to the project sponsor, as the decision to add the component brings many benefits even though it will be disruptive to the production line.

• Lead a root cause analysis workshop with the design team to identify the failures that led to the decision to add a component that was not compatible with the production line.

• Meet with the operations manager to explain the background for the change and understand the operation manager's concerns about the change.

• Formally acknowledge the operation manager's concerns and raise a new risk that the project may deliver late and over budget due to manufacturing difficulties.

A developer who has almost completed a required product feature for a prototype leaves the company in the middle of an iteration. What should the project manager do?

• Review the backlog to reschedule the deliverable for a later iteration.

• Engage with stakeholders directly to review the iteration process.

• Determine whether other cross-functional team members are able to take over the work.

• Go to management and ask to hire a new external developer.

An agile project manager has just been given a sizeable software development project to implement. Early in the initiation stage, the project sponsor requests an indication of time lines for delivery of the initial release. What tools should the agile project manager use to do these estimates?

• Product backlog, budget, resource management plan

• Budget, minimum viable product (MVP), retrospective notes

• Resource management plan, retrospective notes, backlog grooming

• Backlog grooming, product backlog, minimum viable product (MVP)

A project manager is asked to implement a hybrid approach that will replace a predictive approach on an upcoming project. How should the project manager adjust their responsibilities accordingly?

• Become a servant leader by supporting team collaboration and removing impediments

• Delegate coordination activities to the product owner so the project manager can locus on managing collaboration

• Request a scrum master to focus on the collaboration while the project manager focuses on the coordination

• Introduce new communication tools to the project team members

During a network upgrade for a company, the client informs the project manager that a government representative notified the client about a separate project that will affect the network upgrade. Any change in the upgrade will impact the project's cost and schedule. What should the project manager do first?

• Perform an impact analysis with subject matter experts (SMEs).

• Inform the government representative about the impact of the separate project.

• Implement a change request to increase the budget and schedule.

• Consult and update the risk register with the project stakeholders.

A company is moving to a hybrid approach and conducted capacity activities for all of the project managers. During these capacity-building activities, the focus was on agile approaches and team facilitation skills. When starting the implementation phase, the project managers faced issues motivating the newly hired agile staff. Why are the project managers having issues motivating the agile staff?

• The capacity building activities missed the servant leadership concept transfer.

• Transitional periods normally cause this type of problem.

• The agile staff is not used to being led by a project manager.

• Project managers are expected to become coaches in agile teams.

A project to implement a new online landing platform has started. After the first sprint, the project sponsor requested a change. What should the project manager do next?

• Escalate the change request to the sponsor

• Validate the work completed

• Inform the stakeholders of the change

• Facilitate the update of the product backlog

An organization started the process of a digital transformation and is trying to change its culture from a predictive to a more agile approach. The project manager leading the change management process identified some knowledge gaps of key team members, which could prevent the transformation from happening as planned. What should the project manager do?

• Provide mentoring for the key team members on agile practices and support the team with training and encouragement.

• Create an agile conduct guideline and ensure that all team members follow the rules stated in the document.

• Replace the key team members with new resources who are already aware of the agile mindset.

• Provide directions to the team members on how to accelerate the company's transformation, bringing the project back on track.