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WorksheetsPMI SH - Determine Appropriate Project Methodology/methods and P
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
The service provider and their client agree on about 80% of the scope of a project contract they are working on for the delivery of marketing content. The client has a fixed budget and target completion date and wants to get the most business value from the project as possible by increasing the scope based on a best-effort delivery close to the end of the project. What should the project manager do?
Create the contract based on the agreed scope and plan addendum changes.
Ensure that a change control process is documented in the contract.
Propose a dynamic scope contract option and add a fixed number of iterations.
Increase the number of resources in the contract to deliver the requirements.
A project manager is managing an agile project. The project sponsor asks the project manager whether agile supports entering a fixed-price contract with the customer instead of a time-and-materials contract. The customer needs a fixed-price contract to support their concrete business goals.
What should the project manager's response to the sponsor be?
Inform the customer that agile does not support fixed-price contracts, as it favors customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
Inform the customer that agile supports only time-and-materials contracts, as scope is not fixed in agile.
Agree with the customer to move forward with fixed-price contract, as there is no such restriction in agile.
Influence the customer to use a time-and-materials contract, as the cost overrun of this contract lies with the customer.
A project team has been tasked to build a new product. The team builds the demo first and add features to the initial product. This is an example of what technical practice?
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Continuous Delivery
Behavior-Driven Development
Spikes
A project manager is leading an agile project. For iterations one through five, the team’s velocity chart displays 18 story points, 30 story points, 22 story points, 23 story points, and 22 story points.
What does this information demonstrate about the team's performance?
The team is not following agile practices properly.
The team's velocity is stabilizing over time.
The team is lagging behind as per the schedule.
The team needs to change their agile methodology.
A project team lead meets with the project manager before a scheduled kick-off meeting. The team lead is worried that expectations regarding project deliverables might not be realistic.
What should the project manager do?
Review the project business case and the results of the feasibility study.
Facilitate a meeting between the project sponsor and the team lead to discuss the concerns.
Meet with the stakeholders to discuss the concerns and record their conclusions in the stakeholder engagement plan.
Identify the risks and agreed-upon risk responses and modify the risk register accordingly.
A project manager is managing an agile project. A new team member, who has never worked in an agile team, joins the project. The new member asks the project manager to explain why an agile approach is used.
What should the project manager's response be?
To eliminate the risk and increase the predictability and visibility
To deliver value faster and change the scope based on feedback
To reduce the costs and increase the quality of the end deliverables
To eliminate the need for documentation by delivering working products
A project manager is managing a project where requirements are fixed and the workflow is planned for the full development lifecycle. Additionally, the customer involvement is at specific milestones and testing happens post-build.
Which methodology should a project manager use for this project?
Agile
Hybrid
Predictive
Continuous Improvement
A company is venturing into a new business but has no previous experience in that market. The project manager is having trouble visualizing project requirements.
What should the project manager do next?
Consult the project charter.
Reevaluate the business venture's objectives.
Seek potential customer input.
Conduct a feasibility study.
A project manager recently joined a new organization. The project sponsor is a subject matter expert and wants to manage scope by delivering in small increments and changing the scope based on feedback.
Which of the following approaches should be the recommended option?
Scrum
Waterfall
Kanban
Predictive
A project manager is leading an agile project. The product owner complains that the project team is constantly completing less story points than the Scrum team working on another project.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
Ask the team to address this issue as part of the retrospective to improve their velocity in the next sprint.
Tell the product owner that it is incorrect to compare velocity across teams because story points are specific to each team.
Get the approval from the product owner to add a contingency buffer to the sprint, and change the duration to increase velocity.
Take full responsibility of the team’s low performance as compared to the other team and apologize.
A project manager is helping an organization transition from traditional methods to agile. The infrastructure, data warehousing, and enterprise architecture teams operate very differently than the application development teams.
How should the project manager implement agile in this organization?
Ask every team in the organization to implement the same agile methodology so that a one-size-fits-all solution can provide consistency across all teams.
Tailor the implementation by deliberately adapting the approach to make it more suitable for the given environment and work at hand.
Force the top-down transition approach by asking the CEO to provide support for implementing agile in every team in the organization.
Ask one team to implement scrum as a pilot so that all other teams in the organization can also implement scrum by learning from this team.
A project team is writing the lessons learned at the end of the sprint. They explicitly declare their willingness to improve their expertise using the retrospective approach.
Based upon the agile manifesto, what should the team focus on?
Debating
Defending
Conversing
A project manager is helping their organization transition from utilizing predictive methods to agile methods. One team member asks when high-level requirements definition and solution design activities should be done in an agile methodology.
How should the project manager respond?
In agile, these activities must start as soon as the project team is assembled, preferably in sprint one.
In agile, the team should plan to perform some of these activities as part of sprint zero before starting development.
In agile, the team should avoid waste, so these activities must be done as part of development.
In agile, the team follows the last responsible moment strategy and should defer those activities as much as possible.
A project manager is leading an agile project that is in the execution phase. After a couple of sprints, the project manager realizes that the team's estimates are not realistic.
What action should the project manager take to remove this impediment?
Ask the team to address this issue at the next the retrospective to avoid impacting the sprint in progress.
Obtain approval from project sponsor to add a contingency buffer to the sprint, and change the end date.
Ask the team to address this issue at the next standup, and meet the commitment for the sprint in progress.
Organize product backlog refinement sessions to better understand the scope and review estimations.
In an innovative project, the sponsor wants to deliver a creative and large data processing platform to better serve the customers. However, the functionality of the platform cannot be described clearly in the project's requirements. In order to obtain continuous investment, every project output that shows progress will be demonstrated to management.
What kind of project approach should the project manager recommend?
Predictive
Waterfall
Agile
Hybrid
A project manager is helping their organization transition from using predictive methods to agile methods. The leadership team complains to the project manager that less work is being done after the agile approaches were implemented.
How should the project manager respond to the leadership team?
Ask all team leads to explain why less work has been done since the agile implementation began.
Explain a decrease in productivity is expected in the beginning as teams try to understand and adjust to agile approaches.
Enforce 2-week sprints across the organization so all teams deliver at the same agile cadence.
Stop implementing agile if the organization is not making any improvements and people are becoming frustrated.
A project manager is managing a project where requirements are not fully known and high level of uncertainty exists. Which methodology should be used for this project?
Agile
Hybrid
Predictive
Waterfall
An agile coach is counseling a large software organization that has been using waterfall methodology and now plans to start using agile or hybrid methodology.
What would be a project manager's suggestion?
Continue using waterfall, since hybrid does not fit with the organizational structure.
Start with agile and then move to hybrid, although agile takes time to implement.
Start using hybrid methodologies because waterfall knowledge is transferable.
Start using hybrid, the more appropriate methodology for software organizations.
A project manager is managing an agile project. The PMO manager is not familiar with agile delivery.
Which of the following statements describe the agile approach?
Responding to change over following a plan
Customer collaboration over following a plan
Responding to change over processes and tools
Customer collaboration over comprehensive testing
A project manager is managing a project that has a component using agile. The project sponsor asks the project manager to add a new component to this project which is government regulated with new complex tax-rules with enough time provided to implement these rules. The sponsor suggests implementing this new component using predictive non-agile approach due to its complexity.
Which methodology will the project manager use for this new component?
A.Inform the project sponsor that you will manage the new component using agile methodology as agile supports one-size-fits-all.
Use hybrid approach by continuing to manage the existing component using agile, and the new component using predictive.
Manage the existing component as well as the new component using predictive plan-based approach.
Seek guidance from project sponsor for which methodology will suit best for new component.
A project manager is managing an agile project. In order to make sure there is enough funding available for the project, the project sponsor is asking the project manager for an estimate when the project will be completed.
How should the project manager respond to the sponsor?
Inform the sponsor that an estimate is not necessary, as agile supports responding to change over following a plan.
Remind the sponsor that agile projects are not judged based on budget and schedule.
Provide the estimate to the sponsor, as agile supports estimating.
Influence the sponsor to add a contingency buffer to the cost in case of a cost overrun.
