PMI PMP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 123

A major issue about conflicting priorities has been highlighted by the project team with regard to a few stakeholder requirements. What should the project manager do?

An agile project team discovers that they are unable to implement a feature completely in the first iteration. The team believes it may not be able to complete the tasks in the second iteration. The feature is a critical component that the customer has prioritized.

What should the team do?

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 global company hired a project manager for a new implementation at all of its sites. After reviewing the business case and project charter, the project manager notes that the project team has different locations and regions to consider.

What should the project manager do to address this situation?

A project manager is managing a project for a government owned company using an iterative approach. The first useful release to production consisted of three iterations. Each iteration was successfully checked by the client's representatives in the test environment. However, when the team started deploying to the production environment, the security team declined it.

What should the project manager have done to prevent this?

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.

What should the project manager do to manage business concerns and expectations before starting the project?

Some of the more experienced members of a project team have complained about the project manager. The senior project team members feel that the project manager is micromanaging them and preventing them from completing their work.

What should the project manager do when made aware of these issues?

An intern is replacing a critical resource midway through a sprint. To help the intern get up to speed, the project manager assigns a senior engineer in the team as the intern's mentor. Two months later, the project goes into critical status, delaying the release milestone by a month.

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

After meeting with stakeholders, a project manager working at a computer gaming company is creating a project management plan for the company's newest offering. The project manager learns that the company's main competitor is scheduled to release a similar offering leveraging the newest technology. The project manager fears that the competitor's offering is better in multiple ways compared to the project manager's project.

What should the project manager do?