During the implementation phase of a project, functional managers are adding new requirements, which may impact cost and schedule baselines. The project manager notices that some of the team members are communicating with their managers directly to fulfill their requests. This will lead the project to go beyond the agreed baselines. How should the project manager handle this situation?

A sales manager submitted a new feature request to the product owner, and the request was added to the product backlog. During the sprint planning meeting, the team struggles over which algorithm is the most efficient one to use. The team thinks that some development work is needed to decide. What should the project manager do?

During a project status meeting with senior managers, the project manager gives an update about the status of a deliverable. Some of the senior managers claim not to Know about the deliverable. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is leading a hybrid project. The work breakdown structure (WBS) and the schedule were developed, but the project manager is having difficulty assigning specific resources to all of the project tasks.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading three projects in a program focused on starting product commercialization. Once the three projects fareket, the project manager stops attending the recurring team meetings. The program manager asks the project manager to continue attending these meetings to maintain those team touchpoints.

This request does not match the project manager’s expectation, since a program manager is overseeing the remaining work

How should the project manager approach the situation?

A project manager manages multiple information technology (IT) projects in a matrix organization. The project manager schedules a meeting with one of the functional managers to coordinate testing support for two software development projects. Unfortunately, the functional manager is not able to attend the meeting and informs the project manager that there may not be any resources available to test the software.

What should the project manager do?

A hybrid project has just started, which will result in a new technology that could disrupt the market if well accepted by the public. The product requires health and safety approvals from the government. As this is an innovative solution, the sponsor and product owner are unsure if it will be accepted by the public.

What is the appropriate flow for product development?

A defect is identified during user acceptance testing that could significantly impact the system’s performance. The project team has advised that this defect puts the delivery date at risk.

Which risk management process should be performed?

A senior employee with experience relevant to a highly complex project is seeking a promotion to be able to join the project. The employee has made a recommendation regarding the project. The project charter was recently approved.

How should the project manager address the employee’s request?

A project manager notices that the project team is unlikely to complete the development of a system on time before the testing start date, which was based on the technical complexity of the project. What should the project manager do before communicating with the client during the regular project progress meeting?

A project team is performing extremely well when it comes to delivering the value-added features to the customer in each sprint. However, they are missing the documentation portion and the project manager must find a way to make sure the documentation is kept current. Which action should the project manager take?

A project manager has recently moved to an organization to lead a key project. The project manager notices that team performance is below the target, and the tasks assigned are not delivered on time. Team commitment is also not as appropriate as it should be.

What should the project manager do?

A project team member does not submit the project status report on time. The team member is frustrated about being required to complete the report. The team member believes that the report does not reflect the reality of the project, has too many pages, and will not be read by stakeholders.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to an agile project that has an aggressive time line and a fixed budget. Currently, the majority of the items are in the backlog and only a few are in process or completed.

What should the project manager do?

The project manager of a high-risk project is concerned about a delay in the schedule that might force the project to ‘move its go-live date. What should the project manager do next?

A software delivery project began having technical impediments. The issue may cause a delay of the deliverables. The technical service team has been working on the issue, but the issue is unresolved even after 1 week of maintenance.
What should the senior project manager do now?

A human resources (HR) cost report was disclosed, by error, to all members of the project team. This situation generated a conflict between the team members about differences in their salaries.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

An innovation project with a budget of over US$30 million is expected to have a large impact on the technology industry. The business area is concerned if the project will meet stakeholder expectations and raised this concern with the project manager.

A project manager is managing a technical project that requires intensive documentation as part of the key deliverables. Ina project review meeting, a key stakeholder reports that the latest documentation provided by the project manager includes a reference to unrelated products.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to a dental equipment development project that is in the middle of its design phase. After reviewing the project prototype, it is identified that a couple of requirements specifications are missing.

Which action should the project manager take next?

An organization is transitioning to an agile approach. At the project’s first sprint review, the product owner did not accept the result of the sprint and has some concerns.

What should the project manager do?

A junior project manager was recently hired to lead a complex project scheduled to kick off in 2 weeks. The junior project manager was introduced to another project manager for mentoring.

Which two benefits will the junior project manager realize by being assigned to a mentor? (Choose two)

A project manager is leading a project that has been in execution for 1 year. An experienced team member is performing well, but often disagrees with the project manager and refuses to implement their decisions. Part of the team supports the team member’s defiance, while the other team members do not.

What should the project manager do?

During a team meeting, the new agile project manager becomes aware that there are many complaints from the customer regarding project stability and other critical issues.

A team member states that the deliverables were developed by experienced employees who confirmed that the project was stable.

How should the new project manager address these concerns?

A new team member is assigned to a team that consistently delivers each iteration. The new team member is does not understand many of the processes followed and begins to negatively impact the schedule.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager has just taken over a project that is in the requirements gathering phase. A stakeholder indicates that they have not received any progress updates even though reports have been sent on a weekly basis.

What should the project manager do to ensure all stakeholders are receiving proper information about the project?

A project manager is leading a project that will be delivered using a Scrum framework. The organization has an innovative project management office (PMO) that fully supports agile and also has a very friendly procurement team. A new vendor needs to be engaged to provide more developers for a new reporting platform.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is newly assigned to the second phase of an ongoing project. During the implementation, a defect occurred and no one knows how to fix it, as the former engineering team has moved to another project. The customer warns that previously, this defect negatively affected the project schedule.
What should the project manager do first?

A new team member joins an agile team. In a previous role, this team member was a subject matter expert (SME). This team member often directs the team on how to solve problems based on previous experience.

What should the project manager do first?

A CEO of a general contracting company urgently asks the project manager to sign up two project team members to participate in a specific training course. Halfway through the training, both team members complain that the training is too difficult, above their experience level, and that the material does not align with their tasks.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?

During project execution, one of the project tasks is to create an important document for a service vendor. The project manager assigns a senior engineer to clearly detail the service instructions to avoid any redo loops. Two days after the service information document was sent, the service vendor has doubts and needs more clarity on the task. This redo loop will probably cause a delay of one or more days.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is made aware that there are defects in the parts provided by a supplier, which are causing delays in the testing phase. The supplier claims that all parts have been delivered as per the contract. If the defects are not fixed by the supplier within one week, the product release will be impacted.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager in one country is reporting to a lead project manager for a new software development project in another country. The lead project manager constantly requests updates from the project manager, often demanding information via multiple communication channels if the project manager does not respond within a few minutes of a request. Both of them are equal in seniority and both report to the same functional manager. How should the project manager proceed?

A project manager is working on a time and materials (T&M) project using a hybrid approach. The milestones and outcomes are defined for the first 6 months with incremental releases every month. After the first 2 months, the client communicates their dissatisfaction with the results and asks to change the course of the project. The project manager held a face-to-face meeting with the client and now has a better understanding of the newly desired milestones and outcomes. What should the project manager do first?

A geographically distributed project team working on an iterative project adopts a new mode of communication following changes in health protocols. The collocated team members are finding themselves challenged with understanding verbal communication and collaboration methods.

What should the project manager do?

After a project status meeting, the project manager realizes that the project is under budget, quality checks are positive, and the schedule variance is negative. How should the project manager qualify the project status?

A project manager has been assigned as the servant leader for an ongoing project that historically has presented unexpected problems. The main stakeholder is hesitant to continue with the rest of the sprints even though there are no open issues or indications of risks at this stage.

What should the project manager do to address this problem?

A project team member informs the project manager that a stakeholder is contacting the team member to request status updates. The team member is being distracted by these repeated requests, which are interfering with the completion of assigned tasks.

What should the project manager do?

A project is designed to provide local community members with health facilities that will support improved sanitation practices. What should the project manager do to ensure the community members are up to date on project progress?

During a retrospective, one of the team members reports that a functional manager wants to be involved in task allocation. What should the project manager do?

A project team began working on a complex project that involves new technology as a product. The team is new to the technology and the proposed approach. Additionally, the customer is apprehensive about how the product will be received in the market.
What should the project manager do to help the team and the customer?

A project manager is working on a project to build a manufacturing complex. The project will run in three different phases: engineering, procurement, and construction. The procurement phase is in the initiation stage. The project sponsor wants to pursue the project phases as they have been planned, but also wants to accommodate and adjust to new data, input from the customer, and changes during the various phases as the project progresses.
How should the project manager approach this project?

A customer discovered quality issues with the latest deliverables. However, the project team immediately resolved the issues.
Now that the project is back on track, what should the project manager do next?

A project manager just completed the planning phase when a new stakeholder was assigned to the project. The deliverables were discussed with the customer, but the new stakeholder is still concerned about the benefits of two of the deliverables.
What should the project manager do next to address this stakeholder’s concerns?

A multinational company is launching a company-wide digital transformation project that covers all of its regions and business lines. The project is expected to go through five phases and finish in 2 years. The project manager schedules a kick-off meeting.

What should the project manager do next?

An agile team is facing a challenge with the quality of its deliverables. Every time a feature is promoted to production, many defects arise, preventing the customers from properly using the solution.

What should the project manager do to avoid this situation in the future?

A project sponsor has approved the project charter and business case. The project manager has reviewed the artifacts to initiate the project and is unclear if the intended benefits of the project align with the strategic objectives of the business.

What should the project manager do first?

In an organization with good work-life balance, one team was continuously overloaded, thereby delivering the product ft quality. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is nearing completion of an automation project. One of the key stakeholders requests a meeting to discuss some new ideas that would make the project even more appealing to end users. As a result, the stakeholder suggests that the project manager does not close the project.

What should the project manager do first?

In a project steering committee meeting, a few stakeholders raise concerns that the project manager’s report shows that the outcome of the project is already in the market while the project is still in development. The project manager explains that the project is being delivered in sprints and involves different releases.

What should the project manager do to avoid a reoccurrence of this scenario?

A few new team members working on a public housing project are unfamiliar with the system. They do not understand how to evaluate residents applying for a subsidy to build a house, including the rules and criteria for applicant approval.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to a project to develop a mobile app. The sponsor explains that the application should do better than their closest competitor’s app. The sponsor’s expectation is that the team can be put together and start work immediately.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager’s new employer decided to use an agile delivery approach to implement a new accounting system. The chief financial officer (CFO), who is also the project sponsor, is committed to a new way of working but does not have experience as a product owner. The project manager’s background includes a couple of years’ experience as an agile practitioner working as a scrum master. What should the project manager do at the start of the project?

An agile project team is working on an infrastructure product to be delivered incrementally over several iterations. Midway through the third iteration, the whole company is informed that the operating systems supported by the infrastructure will be terminated in the upcoming quarter. Several thousand machines will be impacted by this change.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is in the middle of handling a major upgrade to an existing product. The project manager learns that the resources initially promised as part of the project are being moved to another priority project. What should the project manager do?

A newly assigned project manager is reviewing the project management plan and realizes that the project is running behind schedule. What should the new project manager do to address this situation?

A project manager is assigned to a multiyear enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution project. During planning, the business sponsor emphasizes the importance of demonstrating value along the way, while maintaining the integrity of the final product.

How should the project manager establish the delivery model for this project?

During the execution of a hybrid project, one developer had to be replaced. The new resource is extremely competent in quality assurance tasks, but does not have much experience in development.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager is leading a fast-moving project with strict deadlines and minimal time to deliver each milestone. The project manager discovers that one of the remote team members, who puts a lot of effort into delivering the project, has confided in an on-site team member. The remote team member feels they are not being adequately rewarded and recognized for their job. What should the project manager do?

A project team is globally distributed with team members living and working in different time zones. The project manager is trying to get the team to collaborate effectively.

Which three actions should the project manager take to accomplish this goal? (Choose three)

An agile team wants to maximize the work delivered for the upcoming project that involves considerable product complexity. What should the project manager do to help improve the team’s collaboration approach?

A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project that must receive approval from a government regulator.
During the daily standups, one member reported an impediment that requires collaboration from an expert who is assigned to another project. What should the project manager do first in this situation?

A project manager who is new to a matrix organization has just been assigned to an internal software development project that is intended to reduce conflicts in the company’s internal tracking system. With over 1,000 people in the company who will benefit from the software, the project manager wants to ensure everyone is aware of the great progress the team is making. The project manager meets with the project team to decide upon the most effective way to communicate progress. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a software development project. The project manager and the project team identified the project risks. As the project progressed, one of the risks materialized, and the project manager referred to the risk management plan to determine how to manage the risk. Once the risk management strategy was chosen and implemented, the risk was closed.
At what point did the project manager move the risk from the risk register to the issue log?

A project manager just finished a meeting to identify the main stakeholders of the project. What should the project manager do next?

A company’s project management office (PMO) has started to implement iterative tools. The project manager is starting a new project and has identified an opportunity to use the new tools. There is disagreement among stakeholders about the use of the adaptive tool.

What should the project manager do first?

In an agile project that is about 45% complete, most team members are siloed and lack an understanding of each other’s work. What would have most likely caused this communication breakdown?

Midway into a project, the project manager is concerned with the lack of responsiveness from a vendor. What should the project manager do to ensure the project is delivered successfully?

A project manager implementing a hybrid project is dealing with multiple stakeholders in a rapidly changing business environment. How should the project manager ensure that the needs of stakeholders are consistently met?

At the end of a canceled project, the project manager sent surveys to all stakeholders. The survey also included templates for stakeholders to outline situations, solutions, results, and suggestions.

How should the project manager use the information collected?

An IT company’s office is closed abruptly due to a new government restriction. All employees are now working remotely. Project team A has a critical project delivery due in 2 weeks. The project manager, apprehensive about this sudden change, instantly emails the customer explaining that the project delivery will be delayed. The customer is unhappy with this and has escalated the issue to senior management.

What should the project manager have done differently?

When defining the ground rules for a project team, the project manager observed that only two team members contributed to the discussion. As a result, the team ground rules favor these two team members.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

One of the team members is always late to the daily standup meeting. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is assigned to a project related to taxes, which will be managed using an agile approach. By reviewing lessons learned from a previous project, the project manager discovers that a key stakeholder is an expert on taxes and is willing to help. How should the project manager leverage this information?

During the execution phase of a healthcare IT project, the project manager finds one stakeholder is very difficult to communicate with and obtain feedback from on project deliverables. What should the project manager do?

Within a project, senior management is requesting project information so they can analyze the data to make project decisions. What information should the project manager provide so that senior management can get a broader view of the project?

A project manager is assigned to a project with a long timeline and complex scope. The client requires a high- level, long-term plan as well as something that will work immediately, adding features to the product as the project progresses. How should the project manager plan and deliver this project?

During the execution of a project to develop a prototype, the customer asks the project manager to stop the prototype line and purge a specific component based on recent reliability tests that have deemed the component to be deficient. The project manager checked the quality management plan and there is no reference to this component. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager works in an organization that embraces using different project approaches. The project manager’s current project uses a predictive approach with clear requirements. A few months following the kickoff, the project manager notices that the virtual development teams are not communicating enough, and coordination is becoming an issue. The teams are not aligned on the tasks being done or the current impediments.

What should the project manager do?

A scrum team’s daily meetings are conducted by teleconference between three teams, each located in different countries. The meetings typically last 45 minutes with many misunderstandings due to language barriers. How should the project manager resolve this issue for the next iteration?

A project is about to start. The project manager has found that the client does not have an appropriate knowledge management system and does not have a requirement for it.

What should the project manager do?

During the project planning phase, a project manager is informed that they cannot start one activity before another department implements the required IT system. What should the project manager do?

An agile project manager has started working in a company that builds shopping centers. The project manager wants to implement some agile practices, which are relevant to the project.

What should the project manager do in order to gain buy-in from the different stakeholders?

During the development of a project in a dynamic market environment, new unforeseen legal requirements have come into effect. The project manager is not sure if some of the project deliverables will be fully compliant with the new requirements. What should the project manager do?

In a highly politicized organizational environment, the stakeholders are driven by their own operational or business goals, which results in conflicting interests regarding the project. What should the project manager do to steer the stakeholders toward the collective project goal?

A project manager has been assigned to a project that involves building 100 wells for a small community that is urgently in need of access to water. What should the project manager do next?

In an agile project, some stakeholders are asking to have a meeting with the team every 2 weeks in order to understand project progress. What should the project lead do next?

A project manager is assigned to a new project team that has several stakeholders who can have significant influence over the project outcomes.

The project manager categorized the stakeholders into four different groups and wants to define the communication strategy.

How should the project manager handle communication?

A project manager determines that a critical path activity is going to be delayed. The team proposes a fallback plan that could get the project back on track; however, the plan would require an additional cost to an already tight budget.

What should the project manager do?

A company wants to be a pioneer in its industry and has announced the launch date of a new innovative product.
After the first sprint planning, the team realizes that it is not possible to deliver all the features in the required time. What should the project manager do to ensure success?

A project was initiated due to an external business influence. During the course of the project, some of the business parameters considered at the beginning of the project have changed. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a project with three virtual teams. Team A is in a different time zone than teams B and C. The project was going well, but recently team A has started feeling left out. Information reaches team A late or is sometimes missed, and teams B and C give preference to each other’s problems over team A The project manager has already set project guidelines, but realizes they need to be improved. Which two things should the project manager do to help the teams collaborate better? (Choose two)

A project team member is struggling to deliver an assigned task. In a team meeting, the project manager determines that there are other members on the team who have more experience with similar tasks. What should the project manager do?

A key stakeholder who is frustrated by the lack of transparency of IT projects declines an invitation to participate in the new project meetings.

What should the agile project manager do to engage the stakeholder in the project?

A project manager is facilitating a project steering committee meeting where the prioritization of work items in the backlog is being discussed. The engineering executive wants to prioritize features based on level of effort, completing the smallest items first. The quality executive wants to complete the most complex tasks first to have adequate time to ensure a quality product is delivered. The compliance officer wants to complete items with associated regulatory components as they are essential items. How should the project manager prioritize the work items?

A project manager is working on a product development project. When the product is delivered, there are major issues that require rework and delay new feature development.
Which action should the project manager take to resolve the quality issues?

The testing backlog for a hybrid project has increased significantly and is becoming a bottleneck. The team has researched a tool that could resolve the bottleneck, and the project manager has been informed. What should the project manager do next

A project manager is newly appointed to an ongoing project that will develop a new solution using an affiliate of the company. The deploying resources will come from another entity of the company. When asked to confirm the availability of the deploying team, the deploying manager declined.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager is managing a new development program to automate some technical functions. During project kickoff, the project manager expresses the need for a technical architect to support the project for a moderate amount of time. The project sponsor informs the project manager about an existing technical architect who possesses valuable knowledge but is already assigned at the portfolio level.

What engagement model should the project manager use for the technical architect role to ensure project success?

A risk was identified at the beginning of a project, and a response plan was established. Unforeseen consequences resulted in a higher level of risk. The project manager has an idea that could address the new risk in an efficient way, but the response is different from the original risk mitigation plan.

What should the project manager do?

At a recent steering committee meeting, the project sponsor asked the project team to add a major feature to the final product. After consulting with the project team, it is determined that the change will cause significant impacts to the original project delivery date and budget.

What should the project manager do to assess the priorities and meet the new objective?

A project manager identifies a risk that has a high probability of occurring. How should the project manager manage this risk?

During the daily standup meeting that is assessing progress against the current sprint, a team member reports some delays due to a component managed by an external vendor. How should the project manager address the team member’s concern?

An organization is struggling to start an important project. The project manager has identified that the scope definition is the main item preventing the project from starting. Although most of the scope items are defined and agreed upon among the stakeholders, there are a few items that are hard to grasp and very complex to define at this stage. What should the project manager do?

A key team member has recently gone through some personal issues that has affected their performance. The project manager noticed that the team member’s emotional situation has affected the rest of the team’s performance. How should the project manager handle this situation?

While managing a project using a hybrid approach, the project manager realizes that there is a high level of rework due to quality issues. Because of that, each feature is taking longer than initially estimated. What should the project manager do to address the issue?

An experienced project team member always points out the issues of other team members during meetings. The other team members feel that the experienced team member is deflecting their own issues in meetings. What should the project manager do?

A newly commissioned project has had trouble recruiting team members because the turnover rate is high. The human resource (HR) manager has conducted several exit interviews. Many team members have expressed that the project manager has inadequate relationship management competencies. The project manager explains that the exiting team members were lazy. What should the project manager do to prevent this high turnover rate from continuing?

A project manager is managing an internal project with a tight budget and schedule. While executing the project, the project manager realizes that some stakeholders are working against the success targets of the project.

What should the project manager do to ensure successful project delivery? (Choose two)

A project manager is reviewing the status of a large project with team members in different countries. Through the status review, the project manager notices that one team is consistently behind schedule and their work often needs to be corrected. What should the project manager do to improve the quality of this team’s work?

A project manager was recently assigned to a project that is in the execution phase and is experiencing roadblocks. During a review of the processes and procedures, the project manager notices similarities to a previous project that experienced similar roadblocks. The project manager reviews the task schedule and finds that certain tasks are well behind expectations. In speaking with the project team, the project manager confirms that the team is following the processes exactly. What should the project manager do?

A project team is working on a product that is planned for multiple iterations. They are delivering incremental value.
When should the value be demonstrated?

A project manager who is experienced in predictive and adaptive approaches has been assigned to a new project. Most of the project stakeholders have only worked on predictive projects, and only a few have been exposed to adaptive projects. What should the project manager do?

During an agile team retrospective, a project team member mentions that the code quality is degrading, which might result in future rework that could become unmanageable with time. What should the project manager do?

In the planning phase of a software implementation project, two of the team members disagree on how to approach end-user training. The discussion has intensified and the team members are not able to agree. What should the project manager do next?

An organization is undergoing an agile transformation. The executive leadership team is concerned that they will lose control over the scope of the project.

What should the project manager, who is responsible for this project, do to mitigate this risk?

Just as a team reaches a mutual consensus on a preferred design, a stakeholder submits a request to add new features that enhance the company’s competitive advantage. What should the project manager do?

At a meeting, the project manager for an agile project indicates that the sprint goals were not met. The product owner leaves the meeting early and the team discusses how the meeting went. Team members are confused as there were no defects for the new user stories and no new requirements were discussed.
What should the project manager do in the future to avoid this situation?

A project manager is leading a project that is at 90% completion. One of the key stakeholders requests a certification program to be included as part of the project. Another stakeholder disagrees and informs the project team that there should be no change to the project management plan since the project is nearing completion.

What should the project manager do?

A company changed the product owner on an existing project. The new product owner has less knowledge of the product than everybody else on the team. Due to the product owner’s lack of knowledge, the team does not consider the opinions of the product owner seriously and mostly relies on the project manager’s opinion. What should the project manager do?

The project leader for an agile team has discovered that a certain team member has been struggling with an impediment that is hindering the team’s progress. The project is now at risk of completing later than expected. What should the project leader do?

A project interfaces with other projects that are in the same portfolio but are being developed in international locations. One of the international projects has suggested a tactical change that needs to be implemented in this project.

What should the project manager do next?

In an agile project, the learn planned to complete 40 story points in an iteration, but only completed 30 story points. What is the schedule performance index (SPI)?

A project has come to the closing stage. The work is generally finished, and the project manager wants to commence the closure process for the project. What should the project manager ensure is in place prior to the closing process?

A project manager is assigned to a project that is in the execution phase that has different types of stakeholders.
Some of the stakeholders are very interested in the project, whereas other do not show the same level of interest. What should the project manager do to assure the project finishes correctly?

A project manager is managing a complex project with a high number of artifacts. Some of the stakeholders are having issues accessing the artifacts. How should the project manager address this situation?

A project manager holds meetings every Monday to review the team members’ progress. The project sponsor is insisting on daily updates to ensure improved delivery on products developed by all of the teams, including this one. Some learn members indicate they are on a very light time line and would attend me Monday meeting, but not the daily update meetings.

What should the project manager do to ensure all team members participate in daily meetings?

The first task a project manager needs to complete on a new project is improving stakeholder engagement. How should the project manager complete the power/interest grid based on the following scenario:

* The marketing director is the key stakeholder. as the project will create a new product for the company.

* The finance director is providing funding and does not have much time to follow the tracking of the project.

* The sales representatives assigned to the team provided some negative feedback on the requirements

* The human resources (HR) intern assigned to the team was satisfied with the new product interlace

A project team was hired to perform on-site duties, but there were unexpected circumstances that required the entire team to work remotely some team members returned to their hometowns and they are now requesting reimbursement for operational expenditures

What should the project manager do?

A team is working on a project with three iterations. The project manager is reviewing the burndown chart What is the point where the chart shows that the team is performing below the plan?

A project manager is leading a hybrid project for the development of denial equipment with live team members A dentist, who is also one of the major investors attends a sprint review meeting and raises questions and doubt about the concept and expected performance of the equipment

What should the project manager do?

In the middle of the execution phase for a big project a new stakeholder who was unfamiliar with the project joined the board of directors and is influencing the decisions made in the project. This change is impacting the project’s progress
What should the project manager do first?

A project manager in an automotive company is scheduling activities for a complex project Some of the project requirements are fixed and some are flexible Match the items on the left with the methodology on the right that the project manager is using.

A learn member has a sudden emergency that may last for several days. There are no other team members who can cover their tasks and job duties. What should the project manager do to address this concern?

During an agile project a project manager lost one of the resources, and at the same lime, uncovered new requirements, which were added to the backlog what should the project manager do next?

A project manager has been assigned to a software development project that will undergo several iterations until the customer is satisfied. Match the tool or technique on the left that the project manager should utilize to ensure tasks are efficiently managed to the correct task on the right.

A project manager is managing a project that has a new sponsor who is cutting the budget as a servant leader how should the project manager handle the budget cuts with the team?

The current incremental revenue expected by a project deliverable is not fulfilling the business case requirement the deliverable was already closed and handed over to the operations team

Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)

During a project’s initiation phase a lessons learned sharing session was held with the team from another project Low construction productivity was discussed as a potential delay to project completion

What should the project manager do next?

A project manage is in the middle of an angle project comprised of 100 user stories broken down into five iterations. Each user story is worth U$$50. The actual expenditure is U$$2,00 and 50 user stories have been delivered.

Which statement is true?

A product owner has added new high-priority work to the backlog, A project manager is working with a dedicated agile team that does not specialize in this specific area of work. The team reviewed the work and wants to accept it but acknowledges it may not have the same level of efficiency as another team having specialization in this area.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

A project manager is leading a multiyear project that involves internal and external stakeholders. As the project manager begins to gather requirements, additional business stakeholders express interest in being involved.
Which three actions should the project manager take to ensure proper stakeholder involvement? (Choose three)

A project manager is overseeing a project as part of a program geared toward a major technology disruption. The team is comprised of brilliant young professionals who have worked on different projects for the organization in the past. However, the team complained that they previously experienced a lack of direction during project execution and are a traid of the same issue in this project.

Which two actions should the project manager take to ensure that this issue does not occur in this project? (Choose two)

A key project stakeholder has started to escalate all issues and main requirements to the project sponsor. The project manager is concerned about the team not receiving direct communications from this stakeholder.

Which two actions should the project manager take to improve the relationship with the stakeholder? (Choose two)

During the execution phase of a project, a project manager notices that the project team is not motivated and performance is decreasing. The decision is made to invest in financial rewards for all of the Key team members. After the rewards are distributed, the team is still underperforming.

What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

A project manager is working with several junior engineers on a project. The project manager noticed that when the junior engineers are asked questions, they defer te more senior team members on the team for answers.
Having worked with the junior engineers on another project, the project manager knows they are capable of making these minor decisions correctly.

This uncertainty from the junior engineers is now slowing progress. ‘What should the project manager do?

A project manager for an iterative project noticed that retrospective items indicate that the team is not fully conversant with the principles of iterative development. The team meets to analyze the gaps in the training that recently concluded with a third-party trainer.

What should the project manager do next?

After assigning tasks to a project team, a project manager discovers that some team members are uncomfortable. Same team members are having 4 difficult time understanding their assigned tasks, whereas other team members are challenging the schedule based on that allocation to the project.
Which phase of the Tuckman ladder of team formation is occurring?

A project manager is working with a collocated agile project team that has worked together long enough to be in the performing phase of team development. An unforeseen event has caused the team to be dispersed and they are now unable to collocate.

What should the project manager do to keep the team performing as effectively as possible?

A technology project is delivering new functionality on a new platform. Several team resources are starting to train their teams, but they are asking questions about the training that the project will provide.

What should the project manager’s first action be?

A project manager is working in a company that has several global offices. During resource planning for a new project, the project manager realizes that the company requires projects to include team members from different continents.

What should the project manager do to ensure a successful project execution?

A project manager is working on a project to release a new version of a key product, the product strategy and marketing areas are still working on defining the final details for the products appearance, but the team is clear about the main features. During the last sprint review, the project sponsor expressed concerns about the low quality of the product,
What should the project manager, as a servant leader, do to address this situation?

A project manager is working for an organization in country A and has been tasked with opening the first brick- and-mortar store in country B. The sponsor has identified the city for the store and wants to minimize any potential issues with the local government.

Which action should the project manager take to address the sponsor’s request?

During project planning, a development team is assigned an agreed-upon work package to determine the appropriate pattern for integrating a new service with a legacy system. The lead developer has requested a meeting with the project manager and is looking for direction as to which technology to select.

How should the project manager help guide the lead developer?

A project manager is about to slant the testing phase of a new project. Historical data show there is a high risk of failing the agreed acceptance criteria.

How should the project manager ensure the acceptance criteria are ret?

A project manager has been assigned to manage multiple agile project teams. The project manager wants to empower the teams and make them self-organizing.

What should the project manager do to create a positive environment?

In an agile project, the project owner has repeatedly called for ad hoc meetings with team members. What should the project manager do?

A project manager has been assigned to a new project that is similar to a project that was closed last year. There is no schedule baseline, but the project manager received the activity list and wants to prepare a reasonable schedule.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager receives information in preparation for reporting the project’s monthly performance to the project steering committee,

* Actual progress = 2 units

* Planned progress = 3 units

* Actual cost (AC) = 2 units

* Budgeted cost = 3 units

What statement should the project manager make to the project steering committee?

A proof of concept for a proposed solution was conducted during the project implementation, and it was determined that the current technology cannot support it. What should the project manager do next?

An IT project manager for a project that is 50% complete teams that a critical team member plans to relocate to another country soon. The team member is needed for the remainder of the project.

How should the project manager improve team dynamics?

An agile project to provide a material information system has started. During the kick-off meeting, the team realizes that the stakeholders require a solution in 2 months, but it will take at least 4 months to deliver the entire project.
Who should the project manager contact to help the team accelerate the delivery?

A company is undergoing a digital transformation and is changing its project portfolio to an agile approach. As a result, the leadership is looking to update the performance measuring system for the workforce.

What should the project manager propose?

A project manager has established daily standup meetings with the team during the execution phase of the project. The project manager has been successful in removing 75% of the obstacles reported, but the timeline continues to deviate further each day with no signs of improvement. What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?

A self-organizing team brings an internal problem to the project manager. What should the project manager do as a servant leader?

A project manager has been assigned to handle a company’s newest product. The product is in the conceptual stages and no one is sure about the success or marketability of the product. Management wants to deliver the product in 3 months.

What should the project manager do next?

One of the risks identified during project planning activities is related to a component from a preferred vendor.
The component utilizes new technology, and there is a possibility of incompatibility with other parts of the system that are being developed.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager working on a software development project asked the software development about the status of a task. The developer responded that the task was delivered 1 week ago and mentioned that the delivery was reported via a specific project management software.

What should the project manager do next?

In experienced project manager has never managed an agile project until now. Due to the uncertainty of the project, the project manager is struggling with the definition of the project scope and is taking a long time trying to define it.

What should the project manager do?

A project is almost completed, and both the sponsor and the project management office (PMO) are happy with the project manager’s performance reviews. The project manager is under budget and ahead of schedule.
However, a team member asks to add a feature to the product that will make the product more impressive and acceptable to the end users.
What should the project manager do first?

A project manager works at an organization that intends to use an agile delivery approach, the product owner asks the project manager what the benefit of agile delivery is from a project evaluation perspective.

How should the project manager reply to the product owner?

A company is transitioning from a predictive to an agile approach. During the last two sprint reviews, the product owner complained about the development team, indicating that the increments do not meet the acceptance criteria defined in the user stories. The development team complained about the product owner, who is defining sprint backlog items, because the backlog items cannot be delivered during the 2-week sprints agreed to at the beginning of the project.

How should the project manager resolve this situation in their new role as servant leader?

A customer is meeting with an agile team at regular intervals and keeps changing priorities for the team members. What should the project manager do to remove this impediment?

We architects are unable to agree on how to approach certain components of the development that will be included in the upcoming sprint. After a one-on-one discussion, the architects have decided to each own a particular module of the system, and the team supports the decision.

What should the project manager do?

A company strictly uses an agile approach, and the backlogs are continuously updated. A new project lead is hired and feels uncomfortable sharing some of the product’s vital information with the team and the product owner.
What does the project lead need to do to prevent a risky situation in the next iterations?

A project manager is leading a new project that is in the initiation phase, the project will build a new type of software technology service that has never existed at the organization before and will reengineer the business process for several operations teams. The project manager needs to determine the project management approach to be used, and there are many team members and stakeholders who have contradictory opinions. What should the project manager do?

A project manager is working on a software product that will be installed across all levels of the client’s organization. The client’s executive sponsor insists that only stakeholders at the highest level of the company will be involved in the planning phase.

What should the project manager do?

A global program is being kicked off, and various distributed teams are involved in delivering the initiative. Besides planning and executing the scope for the initiative, team interactions must be considered.
How should the project teams interact in their meetings?

A project is delayed. The project manager added extra resources to some activities and approved overtime for several team members.
What technique is the project manager applying?

A project manager for a software technology project works in a matrixed organization with virtual teams.
Unfortunately, the functional manager informs the project manager that there may not be any resources available to test the software.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is managing an internal software development project that is on schedule to complete in 1 month. The project should begin seeing value once the system is online, yet some stakeholders lack an understanding of how it will provide value to the organization. What should the project manager do next?

During a standup meeting, a team member raises the issue that they have blockers and impediments preventing them from moving on to the next task. How should the project lead handle this situation?

A project manager is evaluating a project and realizes that its earned value (EV) shows the cost spent is higher than the value delivered. The project manager then discovers that the team has been adding small features that are not part of the requirements.

What should the project manager do?

A construction project to build a fish hatchery is in execution. The operations group notified the project manager about a concern that might turn into a potential issue; however, the concern could not be addressed.
In which project document should the project manager record the concern?

A project manager is managing a hybrid project that is using a contractor for a few key deliverables. The contractor has been hired to perform an important delivery, but has not yet confirmed that they can meet the required schedule.

What should the project manager do?

A project engineer in country A is complaining about the sample received from the supplier in country B because the sample is not the correct length. During a telephone conference, the supplier checked the drawings and insisted that the measurement was accurate. What should the project manager do next?

A project manager has been asked for performance feedback regarding one of the team members The project manager would like to gather additional input from the project team because there are no metrics in place for evaluating employee performance.

What should the project manager do next?

A project manager is working on the delivery of a solution that needs to be deployed to the public quickly. The project team is experienced, the stakeholders are supporting the delivery, and the customer is cooperating.

What strategy should the project manager use to ensure on-time delivery of the solution?

Clients are complaining about the delay on a product delivery timeline. It is confirmed that the issue is related to the product inventory and availability.
What should the project manager do to engage the stakeholders?

In an agile project, two key stakeholders disagree about a major new requirement. Recognizing that this could lead to potential issues, what should the project manager do next?