PPM CAPM Day 2 Quiz

What is a key advantage of using adaptive project management approach?

• Great predictability in delivery timelines

• Higher flexibility to accommodate changes.

• Requires less collaboration with stakeholders.

• Implements a fixed budget and scope.

The project manager of a new agile project wants to ensure that the required artifact is used.

What artifact should the project manager utilize?

• Daily coordination meeting

• Sprint review

• Sprint retrospective

• Product backlog

A team member walks into a project's meeting space. There are sticky notes on the walls indicating task progression. The walls are not labeled, and the sticky notes do not display a start or end date.

What framework is being used?

• SAFe®

• Kanban

• Scrum

• Extreme Programming (XP)

What contradicts the principles of agile life cycles in project management?

• Requirements are expected to evolve throughout the project.

• The product is delivered incrementally based on stakeholder feedback.

• Changes are strictly controlled, and scope is defined upfront.

• The team collaborates with stakeholders for continuous improvement.

A project manager is leading a product development project for a new wearable health device. The team is uncertain about the feasibility of some advanced biometric sensors and expects potential technical challenges during integration. Additionally, regulatory requirements are still evolving, which may impact the product’s final specifications.

How should the project manager track progress to manage these risks effectively?

• Implement a predictive approach with a rigid plan and assume all risks are manageable.

• Use an adaptive approach with short iterations and continuous reassessment of progress.

• Avoid selecting a specific approach and focus exclusively on the final product delivery.

• Only track project progress when issues arise to save time on unnecessary updates.

You are facilitating a meeting with the customer, team, and key project stakeholders. It becomes evident that requirements are unclear at this point and will frequently change as the project progresses. The customer also mentions that they want the features delivered as the features are completed even if the time between the deliverables will vary from one feature to another.

What life cycle would you recommend for the project?

• Iteration-based agile

• Flow-based agile

• Predictive-based agile

• Any type of agile

A defense contractor has been engaged by the government to develop an anti missile system to intercept missiles launched from neighboring countries. The contractor completed similar projects in the past using an established predictive project methodology. However, due to the new type of missiles used by the attackers, the solution for the anti-missile system is unclear.

A combination of what project management approaches would work best for this project?

• Predictive and traditional

• Traditional and agile

• Agile and incremental

• Incremental and adaptive

You are leading a project to develop a new smartphone. Since you are anticipating many changes in requirements and continuous feedback from stakeholders to adjust the smartphone accordingly, the work will be done iteratively in small increments. However, the camera for the smartphone will be developed by a vendor who refuses to collaborate in an incremental way.

What project management approach is best for you to select for this project

• Predominantly agile with some predictive components

• Predominantly predictive with some agile components

• Predictive during planning and agile during execution

• Agile during planning and predictive during execution

At the end of a sprint, the development team realizes they cannot complete all planned user stories due to underestimated effort. The product owner insists that all committed stories must be delivered before the next sprint begins.

What should you do as the project manager?

• Extend the sprint to allow the team to finish the remaining work

• Explain the importance of time-boxing and prioritize completing the highest-value stories in the current sprint

• Pressure the team to work overtime to meet the commitment

• Cancel the sprint and start over with revised estimates

A company is using Kanban to manage workflow in an adaptive project environment. The team completes the tasks continuously, however, stakeholders are expressing concerns that some of the completed work is not having an impact on key business goals.

What would describe success in this scenario?

• Success is defined solely by completing the highest number of tasks

• Success is achieved if the team avoids changes after work starts.

• Success is achieved by focusing on delivering the most valuable work.

• A.Success means finishing the work exactly as defined, even if priorities shift.