WorksheetsPMI SH - Address and Remove Impediments, Obstacles, and Blockers
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
A project integrates with several systems developed by various vendors and one of these vendors has gone out of business. What should the project manager do first?
Meet with this vendor to identify a replacement.
Review the risk register and update the issue log.
Calculate the delay and notify the project sponsor of the new timeline.
Negotiate with another vendor to produce the deliverable.
A project manager working on an agile project discovers that the allocated budget and resources are insufficient to cover the estimated total cost. The PMO recommended the development of requirements prioritization model.
What should the project manager take into consideration in the model?
Cost, associated risk, and company culture.
Associated risk and company culture.
Cost and associated risk.
Associated cost impediments.
As part of a temporary assignment, a project manager is leading a business project. During a daily status meeting, it was discovered that the development team had not completed a critical task. This issue is delaying the current iteration. The ability to take the actions needed to address this issue is beyond the authority of the project team.
What should the project manager do?
Delay the current iteration and inform the stakeholders of the issue.
Invite the project team to a swarming session to define a solution.
Adjust the project timeline to accommodate the development delay.
Escalate the issue to the project sponsor to define the next steps.
An organization decides to implement the Scrum delivery framework. The project manager is using an impediment board with the Scrum team to identify and raise impediments.
What should happen after the impediments are recorded?
Address the highest priority impediments from the log and ensure that it is removed so that the team can continue to reach the sprint’s objective.
Prioritize impediments based on their levels of importance and in relation to those that are already on the log.
Publish and post the impediments log and make it visible to everyone.
Communicate that the impediment is removed to the involved parties and update the impediments log.
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A project team's performance has declined for the last three iterations. Some of the team members are disappointed, and raise their concerns during the retrospective meeting.
What should the project manager do?
Identify potential failure points based on the iteration workload.
Motivate the team to perform better.
Focus on remediation, not merely on correcting symptoms.
Compare the team's performance against other project teams.
A project manager is working on the development of a business case to secure funding and resources. What is needed to ensure that the right priority is assigned to the project?
Developing the most efficient delivery plan
Developing a clear and detailed project schedule
Aligning the project with company’s goals and objectives
Aligning the project with company’s roadmap
A goal has been set at four months for a project team to distribute a product. Unfortunately, it will be difficult to adhere to that time frame due to team members having individual tasks to complete.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
Encourage members of the team to alter their tasks in order to not impede with meeting the project deadline.
Aid team members in prioritizing their personal tasks against the project's goals.
Postpone the delivery date of the project to a later time so the team can complete their personal tasks.
Request a delay to the teams’ individual tasks and offer assistance finding alternative times to complete tasks outside of work hours.
A project has the following characteristics:
The project manager is being asked to deliver a business result in a compressed timeline; the original timeline was one month, but the new requested timeline is two weeks.
In the resource planning activity, the project manager heard from another team member that no technical resources are available to join the team; however, the project manager knows the technical resource manager from a previous project.
What is the first action the project manager should take?
Ensure the product owner knows that there is an issue with acquiring a technical resource.
Escalate the technical resource issue to upper management.
Verify the availability of resources by meeting with the previously known technical resource manager.
Contact a third-party vendor to obtain a technical resource.
A project manager learns that the project team will miss a milestone because team member A has not completed the task requirements needed by team member B. When meeting with team member A, what should the project manager do?
Direct team member A to turn over the responsibilities for completing the task requirements to team member B.
Identify any obstacles to meeting the task requirements and determine if team member A needs help completing them.
Ask team member A to work directly with team member B to complete the requirements in order to meet the milestone.
Ask team member A to recommend a replacement who can complete the task requirements.
The change control board (CCB) has evaluated and approved several change requests in a timely manner in the last several weeks. However, implementation of the changes is taking more time than anticipated.
What should the project manager do?
Revise the change control system to allow only critical changes to be raised.
Acquire additional resources to ensure the project milestones are met.
Perform a detailed risk analysis to determine the impact of the time required to implement the changes on the success of the project.
Monitor implementation of the changes to ensure that change management procedures are being followed.
A product owner presented the backlog to the team, and the team raised concerns over implementing some of the features due to various impediments. What should the project manager suggest that the product owner do next?
Estimate the financial impact of the impediments and request additional funding.
Capture the impediments and inform management that their assistance is needed in resolving the impediments.
Ensure that the impediments are captured and prioritized based upon the highest valued features.
Begin to remove the impediments, starting with the easiest ones first, to foster team accomplishment.
An agile team is receiving multiple unplanned requests for product enhancements in an iteration. This impediment is causing the team to miss scheduled tasks.
How should the project manager address this?
Tell the team to increase their efforts to accommodate the requests.
Ask the product owner to include requested enhancements in the current iteration.
Request that the project team reprioritizes all of the committed activities.
Ask the product owner to add the enhancement requests to the product backlog.
A project manager in an organization selects an agile delivery for a cutting-edge technology project. The project manager develops a professional network and wants the product owner to join this network.
Which two benefits will the project manager use to encourage the product owner to join and participate in the network? (Choose two).
Access to global knowledge and workforce
Lower risk and cost
Opportunity to engage with resources
Formal professional network
A project manager working in a global organization decides to build an intra-organizational social media platform. The platform would be used to exchange information, knowledge, and experience within the organization.
Which three challenges should the project manager be prepared to deal with? (Choose three)
Lack of physical interaction
Time differences
Competing priorities
Lack of funding
Cultural differences
The project manager for a complex project discovers that a certain team member has missed several targets. What should the project manager do?
Determine if the team member has been assigned to a concurrent project.
Impose a penalty for each day the team member misses a target.
Ask the team member's functional manager to address the issue.
Discuss the issue with the team member and offer any needed assistance.
During a complex project, a stakeholder informs the project manager about a requirement and proposes to call a meeting to inform team members mid-sprint.
What should the project manager do first?
Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder and a team member.
Ask the stakeholder to explain and implement the requirements immediately.
Host a meeting with all team members to discuss the requirements.
Request the product owner add to the product backlog to be treated in the next iteration.
A project manager is managing a hybrid project. A stakeholder has directly contacted a team member and has requested a change. Due to the request, the team member was distracted from their work, which caused a loss in productivity.
What should the team member do?
Inform the stakeholder that the correct procedure for new requirements is to provide it directly to the project manager.
Inform the stakeholder that the correct procedure for new requirements is to provide it directly to the change control board (CCB).
Inform the scrum master regarding the stakeholder's request for a change and the impact this has had on productivity.
Inform the scrum master so that the change can be discussed directly with the stakeholder.
During a team meeting, team members asked the project manager to advise them on project dependencies. What should the project manager ask the team to do for internal dependencies?
Become familiar with the latest organizational changes.
Read about the merger with a competing organization.
Check the changes related to the work-from-home policy.
Become familiar with the upgrade of the Internet provider.
A functional manager has been making changes to a project outside of the established management plan. The functional manager recently went straight to the project sponsor to request another change.
What should that project manager do?
Determine if the change control board (CCB) needs to review the changes.
Tell the functional manager that all changes must go through the change control process.
Modify the project management plan to allow flexibility in the change control procedures.
Meet with the project sponsor to discuss details about the requested changes.
A project manager is using an agile delivery approach for a project. The team members and business stakeholders are unfamiliar with formal requirements prioritization methods and are inexperienced with agile delivery approaches. The project manager wants to ensure that the critical business requirements will be planned and delivered.
What prioritization technique should the project manager use?
Get the opinion of all team members and business stakeholders.
Use a mathematical model defined by the team members and stakeholders.
Collect the needs of the team members and business stakeholders.
Reach a common understanding with the team members and stakeholders.
A project manager works for a company involved in complex turnkey projects. During a team assessment, the project manager finds that overall performance is negatively impacted because the team has trouble adjusting to ffrequent changes in project requirements and status.
What should the project manager do to ensure the team is better equipped to adjust to change?
Request that the sponsor communicate directly with the project team.
Communicate with stakeholders regularly to avoid frequent changes.
Provide one-on-one guidance to each team member on a consistent basis.
Establish clear and consistent communication channels and protocols.
During a hybrid project, a project manager reviews the project team's performance and realizes that the team's velocity is not fast enough to meet the next review gate goal.
What should the project manager do?
Prioritize the contents of the backlog and remove some stories.
Increase the sprint duration to allow the team more time.
Use the standup meeting to assess impediments and problems.
Create a change request to modify the review gate goals.
During week two of a two-week sprint, one of the core team members has an emergency and is unable to work on the project for the rest of the sprint.
What should the project manager do first?
Request that the product manager increase the project timeline.
Identify tasks that can be reassigned to other team members.
Extend the sprint to offset the loss of the core team member.
Get additional resources from other teams to complete the sprint.
An events company is planning a new event for a client that holds biannual conferences. The project is being managed by a new project manager who has reviewed the lessons learned log from the last event and is concerned that a past issue may reoccur.
How should the project manager proceed?
Identify the root cause and consult with stakeholders.
Handle the issue if it arises during the event planning.
Recommend rescheduling the upcoming conference.
Implement the same strategies used in the last event.
A project manager is working with a team to develop work packages. The project manager noticed a gap in the requirements gathering where important points were missing, which would impact the project timeline.
What should the project manager do?
Meet with the project sponsor to discuss canceling the project.
Meet with the project sponsor and stakeholders to request a budget increase.
Meet with the product manager to create a backlog with the missing requirements.
Evaluate the impact, update the risk register, and present it to the stakeholders.
A project manager for a small company is assigned to a project with a scope that is complex and new. The program manager recommends creating a team with individuals that can offer complementary expertise.
What are the characteristics of the network that should be built?
Central coordination, team members with internal and external stakeholders, all participants abiding to the work agreement and set of rules
Self-organized, team members with internal and external stakeholders, all participants abiding to the work agreement and set of rules
Self-organized, team members with internal stakeholders, all participants abiding to the work agreement and set of rules
Central coordination, team members with internal stakeholders, all participants abiding to the work agreement and set of rules
A project team working on a high-priority, change-driven project has repeatedly missed release deadlines. The project manager identifies that this is due to the fact that an experienced team member is assigned to multiple projects and has limited bandwidth.
What should the project manager do?
Report the issue to the project sponsor.
Adjust the schedule and issue a change request.
Discuss this issue with the project team immediately.
Evaluate the workload of the experienced team member.
A key deadline is approaching specialized team member has suddenly received news that they must leave the office for two weeks. They have approximately three workdays until they leave and they will be unavailable through any communication channels.
What should the agile project manager do?
Adjust the project plan and timeline to accommodate the absence.
Identify critical tasks and dependencies that may be affected.
Introduce a replacement resource for the leaving team member.
Ask the team member to quickly complete as much as they can.
