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A project manager is assigned to lead a hybrid innovation project. During a meeting with the sponsor and major stakeholders, the project manager realizes that the requirements are unclear.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
Request that the sponsor meet with the product owner to address the issue.
Help the sponsor and major stakeholders to craft the product vision.
Add this to the risk register and monitor the risk until this becomes an issue.
Review lessons learned to see how sponsors deal with issues about unclear requirements.
During the last two iterations of a project, one of the team members had low performance. The project manager conducted two feedback sessions with the team member and escalated the issue to the resource manager and project sponsor, but there has been no improvement.
What should the project manager do next?
Request a new resource to execute the activities.
Review this obstacle during the daily standup meeting.
Escalate the situation again to the project sponsor.
Provide feedback to the resource at the sprint review.
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?
Review and amend the processes to ensure only value-adding activities are present.
Review the resources allocated to the project and change accordingly.
Update the schedule to account for the unexpected delays in the project tasks.
Update the variation register to account for the extended project time.
A new project manager is initiating a project and realizes the team members are all very rigid, unwilling to change, and constantly state that they have been running projects successfully for years. The project manager realizes that the project will be at risk if the team does not adopt an agile approach.
What should the project manager do?
Realize the team is in the forming stage and that, as the team moves toward the performing stage, it will become agile.
Schedule a meeting with the project sponsor to request that management support the team's adoption of agile.
Recognize the team is historically successful and decide to allow the team to continue as they have for years.
Engage with the team to explain the risks of using the old approach and gain support for the agile process.
The customer wants to show their stakeholders a tangible outcome faster. This requires advancing a milestone.
Which two actions should the project manager do? (Choose two.)
Review the customer's priorities regarding the desired requirements for the milestones.
Convince the customer to keep the requirements as is and not move the milestone.
Discuss which requirements can be delivered faster with the project team.
Inform the customer that moving the milestone has a very high impact on project cost.
Escalate the issue to senior management so they can impose a solution on the customer.
An agile team recently started working on a project for a financial institution. The project sponsor is concerned that an agile approach will not provide enough support for the organization's compliance standards.
In order to mitigate this risk and avoid problems, what should the project manager do?
Ensure that the peer review process also covers compliance requirements, creating a second layer of security for the project.
Meet with the compliance team and make sure that their requirements are covered in the definition of done (DoD) for each story.
Liaison with the compliance group, making them responsible for understanding the requirements and keeping them prioritized in the backlog.
Propose using a compliance review board that will be responsible for approving all product features prior to their release to the public.
The project manager is reviewing the program risks and issues with key stakeholders. One of the stakeholders wants to understand when the risk may potentially become an issue.
What artifact should the project manager share with the stakeholder?
Project management plan
Issue log
Risk management plan
Risk register
A company that is introducing a new product into the market by the end of the year requires a storage and distribution facility to be built. During the monthly stakeholder meeting, it is discovered that the location for implementation is a government-owned area.
What should the project manager do first?
Update the risk register
Update the issue log
Identify an alternative site
Issue a change request
A project manager has been assigned to a new digital product line, which the company hopes will boost their revenue. The product is complex and requires customer feedback to continually refine the product. The project is being handled by a cross-functional agile team.
What should the project manager do to ensure value is delivered quickly?
Ask the project sponsor to provide additional resources to fast track the project
Plan the project to deliver value incrementally with regular releases
Request a budget increase to pay the subject matter experts (SMEs) more overtime
Identify tasks that can run in parallel to deliver the project faster
Hotspot Question A team is experiencing difficulties and has decided to use a spike. Please click on the portion of the burndown chart that corresponds to the spike.
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