Quiz 60

Late in a project, a key team member leaves the company. The project manager realizes that he does not have enough team members to meet the hard deadline. At a weekly status meeting, the project manager discusses several options with his project team, including authorizing additional overtime, hiring subcontractors, or bringing in additional resources from another project team within the company. Which resource management technique does the project manager use?

• Cost-benefit analysis

• Alternatives analysis

• Problem solving

• Interpersonal skills

Gold plating had been an issue with your current software development project. However, you found that ever since instituting daily stand-up meetings, no more features or functionalities that the customer did not request have been introduced into the project. What is your best course of action to prevent gold plating for the remainder of the current project and on future projects?

• Bring up the topic during the project retrospective

• Capture the best practice in the lessons learned register

• Gold plating adds customer value and should not be prevented

• Ensure that the scope management plan includes daily stand-up meetings

The deliverables of a two-year-long project have just been accepted. It is four months late, but the customer is pleased to have it. The project manager is glad to be done with the deliverables but is concerned about the cost and schedule overruns. He decides to re-run the initial cost-benefit analysis using the actual project costs. Where should the project manager obtain the initial cost-benefit analysis?

• From the customer

• The project charter

• The business case

• The benefits management plan

A project to develop a critical safety system requires that there are no escaped defects. The system will be developed over the course of several iterations, and the project leader wants defects to be caught proactively and fixed as the code is being written. What is the project leader's best course of action?

• Include a user story for smoke testing in every sprint

• Do not allow changes after the system design is approved

• Employ continuous integration of product increments

• Request that developers work in pairs while creating software

You are leading a software development project, which requires knowledge of several programming languages. During project execution, one of the developers has been pulled out of the project by her functional manager. The manager provided you with another developer instead. What should you do first?

• Provide the new developer with an ability test

• Introduce the new developer to the project sponsor

• Schedule training for the new developer

• Assign the developer the next user story in the backlog