Project Management Worksheet

You have just concluded a kick-off meeting with all key stakeholders and are ready to execute your project. However, your project team is unhappy with some of the requirements discussed at the meeting, particularly the balance between the scope and the timeline. They believe the timeline is unrealistic given the amount of work required. Nancy, a team member you have worked with before, informs you that some team members are threatening to quit if the project moves forward. What should your next plan of action be?

• Ask the people who are threatening to quit what they would prefer to do on the project

• Crash the schedule to complete the objectives on time

• Request to revert your plan to a command-and-control style of project management

• Meet with the team to discuss a realistic timeline to present to the stakeholders

Which of the following is NOT part of the PMI Talent Triangle?

• Technical Project Management

• Leadership

• Continuing Education

• Strategic and Business Management

Sally is a scrum master for Project X. Midway through a sprint; she overhears two developers on her team having an intense discussion about the best way to test a specific feature. The discussion is serious but not heated. What should Sally do in this situation?

• Speak to the developer who started the argument

• Speak with each developer separately

• Immediately de-escalate the situation

• Do nothing

Alonso is a project manager at Schroeder Enterprises, which is a project-oriented organization. Which of the following best describes Alonso’s role?

• Project facilitator

• Part-time role

• Functional manager

• Full-time role

Scrum includes four structured events within a larger framework. What are they?

• Quality Focus, Limit Work in Progress, Frequent Delivery, Prioritization, within a Value Stream

• Initial Model Development, Feature Listing, Feature Planning, Feature Design, with a Project Lifecycle

• Project Kickoff, Project Planning, Risk Assessment, Stakeholder Review, with a Release Cycle

• Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, within a Sprint

Simon has a fleet of cars that he uses to transport high-profile clients to and from their destinations. One of his clients is extremely polarizing, and fans are known to swarm her vehicle to see her. A recent press in several out-of-town newspapers announces his client’s imminent arrival. Concerned about potential damage to his vehicles, Simon increased his insurance premiums to get better coverage. Which risk management option does this represent?

• Escalate

• Transference

• Mitigate

• Avoid

Which of the following is not a decision-making technique recognized in the PMBOK Guide?

• Voting

• Multi-Criteria Decisions Analysis (MCDA)

• Brainstorming

• Consensus Building

You are the scrum master for a team developing a mobile banking app. Over the past few sprints, the team’s velocity has been gradually decreasing, affecting their ability to meet sprint goals. As you plan the next sprint, how can you help the team set more realistic goals and improve their estimates?

• Encourage the team to increase their story point estimates so they complete more work in the next sprint

• Use the average velocity from the last three sprints to help the team refine their sprint commitments

• Schedule additional meetings to discuss ways to increase the team’s velocity

• Assign fewer tasks to the team to reduce the overhead of a full sprint planning session

The 12th agile principle states “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” This principle is applied in retrospectives. What is the primary reason for conducting retrospectives in agile teams?

• To reduce communication delays between the sponsor and the development team

• To ensure that features are delivered on time within budget

• To help the team reflect on and improve their process over time

• To keep the team focused on delivering the feature with the highest business value

As a project manager, you are validating the scope and products created during the project with the appropriate stakeholders. What is the output called when a project’s deliverables are approved by the end-user or customer?

• Accepted Products

• Accepted Results

• Accepted Deliverables

• Accepted Data