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09. Resource Management

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

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A project manager is leading a project to restore a historic building. Preservation and authenticity are critical measures of success on the project. Unlike a typical renovation, this project requires consultation with a historian well versed with buildings of the era. The project also requires specialized equipment along with period correct materials and construction techniques to faithfully reproduce the original construction. Where should the project manager look to find information on the equipment, tools, materials, and supplies that need to be acquired for the project?

Resource requirements

Resource Calendar

Requirements Traceable Matrix

Resource Management Plan

You work with your team to sequence activities on the project you are leading. You are looking for the factors, constraints, and potential dependencies among project activities that can influence the way activities are sequenced, as well as help you understand the relationship between activities and the need for leads and lags. Where could you find this information?

Project Schedule

Asumption Log

Work Breakdown Structure

Basis of Estimate

You are a project manager for a new product development project that is in the planning stages. Your project team has just finished creating the activities list and is now in the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. While meeting with your project team, you notice that a series of activities can be done in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. Your team is debating which type of activity sequencing method to use. What would you tell them?

Precedence diagramming method

Critical path method

Project schedule network diagram

Gantt Chart

The project manager and the team decide that the project will be divided into five-week iterations with two weeks between for retrospectives and iteration planning. Where is this documented?

Schedule network diagrams

Schedule management plan

Sprint Backlog

Sprint Review

Up until now, your project team has allowed the use of flextime where project team members may take time off during regular business hours and make up the time during the evening hours or weekends. Recently, excessive use of flextime has become a roadblock as some team members are not available when needed. The team feels they should set a standard that flextime is only to be used for personal emergencies. How should you handle this situation?

Submit a change request to update the team charter based on the team's inputs

Discuss the issue with the team and update the team charter accordingly

Contact the human resources department to update the corporate policies to prohibit flextime

Conduct Sprint Planning

After eight iterations, the team realizes the mistakes they did in the first iteration. What is the next best action for the project team to do?

Restart the first iteration

Apply the lesson learned to the next iteration

Update the lessons learned repository

Conduct Sprint Planning

Two project team members are conflicted over how to approach a technical detail. The project manager has little experience working with them and limited technical knowledge. What is the best action for the project manager to take?

Avoid being involved in the conflict and decision making

Request the functional managers of the involved parties to step in

Gain a technical understanding of the issue

Request the HR managers of the involved parties to step in

A hydroelectric project is running ahead of schedule and under budget, and the customer is pleased with the progress. Following the resource management plan, you have used the appropriate tools and techniques to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the project team. What should you do next?

Submit a change request to modify the resource management plan

Select topics and develop the agenda for a team development meeting

Utilize individual and team assessment tools and techniques

Assign resources with the appropriate skill

During your project execution, another project that is part of the program to which your project also belongs, submitted a request for a specific engineer who possesses a unique knowledge that your project needs soon. What is your best action?

Escalate the issue to the program manager

Assign another team member to fulfill the role of the engineer

Check Enterprise Environment Factor

Discuss the need with the other project manager

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A staffing company supplying highly specialized subject matter experts has just informed the project manager that a key resource essential to the development of the project’s deliverable will not be available for one month due to unforeseeable circumstances beyond the vendor's control. Of the following, what should the project manager do first?

Check Resource Management Plan

Implement the agreed-upon response that has been developed for this risk

Revise the resource calendar to reflect resource availability

Look at Project Managemement Plan

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An IT contract for a project states that all team members must be certified in IT security. The project manager discovers that one team member presented a fake certificate.What should the project manager do first to handle this situation?

Update the project management plan to include resources to get the team member certified.

Update the issue log and remove the team member from the project.

Ensure the remaining team members have valid certificates.

Investigate why this situation was not discovered earlier.

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A virtual team is midway through a sprint of a complex task and is ahead of schedule. During the daily standup, which often tends to end early, a new team member interrupts and asks everyone to define their role and what they worked on prior to this sprint. How should project manager handle this situation?

Address the situation immediately and make sure the new team member has all the information they need to be successful.

Respectfully inform the team member that this would be best taken care of in another meeting.

Team members are not supposed to interrupt in meetings and project manager can ask them to keep quiet.

Allow the new team member to ask the team whatever questions are needed for clarification.

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09. Resource Management

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 9mins

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