WorksheetsPMI SH - Negotiate Project Agreements
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
A project manager is working on a complex project with many stakeholders and conflicting priorities. Senior management asked the project manager to avoid "noise" specifically for political projects.
Although it is difficult to find resources for the project, what should the project manager do to ensure smooth progress of the project?
Apply "If you do something nice for me I'll do something nice for you."
Be consistent with words and actions to avoid conflicts with the stakeholders.
Utilize compliments to obtain resources, and cooperate toward mutual goals.
Allocate the scarce resources efficiently to meet the needs of the project.
A project manager is working on a complex project with many stakeholders that have conflicting priorities. Senior management asked the project manager to avoid "noise" because this is a highly political project. The project manager opted to use expert opinion from well known industry profiles.
What did the project manager do to satisfy senior management's request?
Responded in a friendly manner to senior management
Appeared to be consistent in the use of words and actions
Cooperated with senior management to achieve mutual goals
Took action based on the senior management's power to act
A project manager is working on an complex project with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. Each stakeholder wants to maximize its share of the allocated resources for the requested functionality.
What should the project manager focus on?
Meeting the personal interests of stakeholders.
Meeting the mutual interests of all stakeholders.
Preserving the relationships and rapport with stakeholders.
Pushing stakeholders to accept the project manager's viewpoint.
A complex project, involving multiple stakeholders with diverse priorities, requires long and challenging negotiations to finalize the project agreement. The project manager must facilitate setting the right priorities for these crucial negotiations.
What should the project manager do first?
Develop a detailed risk register
Organize a brainstorming session with all stakeholders.
Define clear project success criteria.
Conduct individual interviews with key stakeholders.
A project manager is working on a complex, political project with many stakeholders having conflicting priorities. Senior management asked the project manager to ensure that there was no "noise" regarding the project. During a stakeholder meeting, the project manager asked a series of questions to confirm acceptance for each deliverable before asking for acceptance of the whole project.
What did the project manager do to satisfy stakeholders?
Responded to positive actions of the stakeholders to reward actions
Acted in a manner that was consistent in the use of words and actions
Engaged with stakeholders by cooperating toward mutual goals
Acted based on the power authorized by senior management
A company is working on a hybrid project in which the deliverables have quality issues at the end of one of the sprints. Which action should the project manager take?
Review the definition of done (DoD).
Look for a clear set of working agreements.
Apply value stream mapping.
Use a plan-driven approach.
Halfway through a year-long project, a hardware supplier sends a project manager notice of an intent to increase prices due to fluctuating rates of exchange. The project manager is unsure of their negotiating authority.
Which document should the project manager reference?
Risk register
Procurement management plan
Project Charter
Communication strategy
An agile project team is implementing a supporting technology platform across departments. They're planning a readiness review for the delivery.
Who should the project manager propose to conduct the readiness review?
The product owner is responsible for product vision and backlog management.
The quality control (QC) manager is responsible for ensuring delivery quality and efficiency.
The quality assurance (QA) manager is responsible for proposing measures for delivery improvement.
The subject matter expert (SME) is responsible for a deep understanding of the platform and requirements.
A project manager is assigned a complex project with significant legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements. However, these requirements have not yet been defined or finalized. Concerns exist regarding a delay in completing these requirements.
What should the project manager do?
Focus on the project deliverables instead as it is not the project manager's responsibility to fulfill these requirements.
Contact the product owner and highlight the project risks related to the delay in fulfilling these requirements on time.
Meet with the product owner and the legal department to review the project status and the progress in defining these requirements.
Delay the finalization of the legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements until the end of the project, and before the go-live date.
A project manager is working on a complex project that has high interest from senior management. There are many stakeholders with competing priorities, which requires significant negotiation skills to overcome rising conflicts.
Which two principles should the project manager follow when developing the negotiation strategy?
(Choose two).
Separate the people from the problem.
Focus on political issues first.
Focus on management priorities.
Focus on interests, not positions.
Delegate the decisions to the team.
A project manager is working on a complex project that includes many stakeholders with conflicting priorities. What should the project manager do to reduce conflict?
Document and sign off on all deliverables in the project.
Take the lead in all aspects of the negotiations.
Negotiate all aspects with help from the project management office (PMO).
Negotiate all aspects using agile for easy deliveries.
At the beginning of an agile project, the project manager is developing the project charter with the team. They are unable to agree on the team values.
What should the project manager discuss with the team to address the conflict?
Sustainable pace
Definition of done (DoD)
Respecting the timebox
Project ceremonies
A project manager is working in an agile environment on a project that will span a few years. The end user asks for a pilot in the first quarter of the project.
What are the optimal times to conduct a formal readiness review? (Choose two).
Every quarter
Every month
At major handoff points
At the beginning of the pilot
At the end of the pilot
A project manager is working on a complex project.
The project includes many stakeholders with conflicting priorities.
Which two actions should the project manager take to be prepared for negotiations and gain support from all of the stakeholders?
(Choose two)
Allow enough contingency to cope with scope changes.
Develop a good relationship with the project team.
Understand the politics and personal interests of the stakeholders.
Develop a good communications management plan.
Develop a good risk management plan.
A project manager is working on a complex project with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. What should the project manager do with respect to the stakeholders to achieve a better project result?
Identify and seek stakeholder consensus on project objectives and deliverables.
Preserve the relationships and rapport with the stakeholders.
Meet the personal interests of the stakeholders.
Encourage the stakeholders to accept the proposed viewpoint.
Question
A project manager is working with an agile team on project delivery. While planning, what should the team focus on to ensure the project objectives are met?
Organize workshops with business stakeholders and the project team.
Verify that the product owner signs off on all user stories.
Verify that each user story has a definition of done (DoD).
Arrange for a deliverable evaluation as the final quality assurance (QA) checkpoint.
