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A company is transitioning from a predictive approach to an agile approach. A project manager is assigned to the first pilot with an inexperienced team. Due to an unexpected event, the whole team is asked to work remotely. During the second sprint, the project manager starts to notice a lack of commitment from the team members.
What should the project manager do in this situation as a servant leader?
Coach team members to increase their engagement and collaboration.
Request an exception to allow the team to return to work on-site.
Force the team to attend the daily standups to gather the project status.
Allow the team to address the problem as a self-organized team.
An agile team has been assigned to a project that mandates the implementation of changes to key government products. The team has been given 6 months to fulfill this mandate.
What should the team lead do next?
Create the project charter and statement of work (SOW) to estimate the changes and the scope of the change.
Create all of the stories just for the next sprint and skip the epics until the next sprint.
Create all of the stories needed to fulfill this change, document them in the backlog, and prioritize them according to business value.
Create the epics at a high level for the requirements and begin grooming sessions.
A project manager has been assigned to a hybrid project. The project manager needs to ensure all team members are collaborating and are aware of the project's ongoing changes.
What should the project manager do?
Encourage collaboration on a daily basis, facilitating different communication channels.
Distribute a project newsletter that includes any project changes and required project information.
Meet daily with the project team and include a monthly report on the risks and issues.
Send out daily emails with the project status and task lists to all team members.
A project leader is assigned to a new project and is asked to assemble an effective five-member agile team. If the project leader has no restrictions, which team should they choose?
A team whose members have more general aptitudes and can collaborate on different tasks
A team whose members work independently and are the best subject matter experts (SMES)
A team whose members have more general aptitudes but like to work individually
A team whose members have different skill sets and are spread out geographically
A project manager is leading the first agile project for the organization. During the kick-off meeting, the project manager notices that the team does not have the same understanding about agile approaches. The project manager is concerned about the impact of that confusion.
What should the project manager do to address this situation?
Evaluate the possibility of managing this project using a predictive approach.
Mentor the team to explain agile principles and create a shared understanding.
Hire a functional manager who is familiar with agile methodologies.
Submit a change request for a new team that has agile experience.
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.)
Update the communications management plan and encourage the teams to review it promptly and proactively.
Schedule weekly progress meetings with all three teams and have them take turns as key players.
Create a status reporting template and share it with all team members before the day ends.
Plan for team members to temporarily work at each other's locations to better provide a sense of community.
Schedule daily meetings with each team to understand their progress and concerns in detail.
The project manager's firm is executing a construction project. The project is stalled due to reemerging conflicts and misunderstandings among stakeholders.
What should the project manager do to ensure a smooth start and completion of the project?
Invite all the stakeholders to a change control board (CCB) meeting, share feedback and facts, and come to a consensus.
Advise the firm to cancel the project due to misunderstandings among the stakeholders and the associated risks.
Conduct an on-site survey, start the project to avoid any undue delays, and ensure costs are under control.
Determine the root cause of the misunderstandings, get all parties to reach a consensus, and help to implement the outcome.
A project manager has been assigned to take over an existing software project. The project manager inherited a lean team comprised of key stakeholders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and senior developers. While reviewing the project status with the team, the project manager observes that the team seems to lack direction and enthusiasm.
What should the new project manager do?
Encourage participation in decision making and empower the team.
Ensure everyone performs their assigned tasks as planned.
Meet with the project sponsor and propose a corrective action for the project.
Organize frequent team building sessions and update the risk register.
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?
Add more iterative techniques to improve stakeholder learning.
Use iterative life cycles involving stakeholders to enable the team to improve the product end result through successive prototypes.
Identify all the critical stakeholders during project initiation.
Assign one team member to one stakeholder to ensure that the responsible team member is conversant with the needs of the stakeholder.
In an agile environment, a project is running iteration four out of six. A team member leaves the company with no replacement.
What should the project manager do?
Ask the sponsor for an experienced team member in the company to help the project team.
Reduce the scope of the project and inform stakeholders.
Ask the team for extra work to fulfill the project commitment.
Update the issue log and refer to the resource management plan to address the situation.
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