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An IT team has reached out to the project manager for guidance on which communication method to use when system downtime will impact the resources working on the project.
Which two communication methods should the project manager recommend? (Choose 2)
A project manager has just been designated to lead an approved project with a virtual team. The team members are from several countries and have never met before.
In order to promote team engagement and introduce the project team, what should the project manager do?
A project manager is developing the project schedule with the project team. The team members estimate that an optimistic duration is 5 days, the pessimistic duration is 20 days, and the most likely duration is 11 days.
What duration should the project manager use?
An experienced team member has recently started performing at a slower pace and is no longer engaged in various team conversations. What should the project manager do?
A strategic project using international funds for a government agency is going through the execution phase. The government transition will take place in 1 month, and authorities will change. There is a risk that the project will be suspended or team members will be removed. The project manager wants to ensure that the project will continue despite these changes.
Which action should the project manager take to address this situation?
The scope of a construction project that is being planned by a multinational company requires that services are procured via contract from an external provider. When considering communication channels, what should the project manager do to help maximize delivery success with this provider?
During a business review meeting, a key stakeholder raised a concern on the quality of deliverables and has now escalated the concern.
What should the project manager do first?
A project's planning process is finished, and all resources were budgeted for and approved by senior management. Just before the kickoff meeting, a member of the production department realizes that the plan does not meet the requirements for their area.
What should the project manager have done during the planning process?
A project manager is quantifying risk for their project. The project manager needs an expert opinion in this process, but experts are spread over different geographic locations and time zones.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager with agile experience is part of an organization that is transitioning to agile. The project manager was assigned to the first agile project by the project management office (PMO). The PMO manager asked the project manager if an existing governance from a previous project would be suitable to use in the current agile project.
How should the project manager respond?
A project manager is working on an ongoing construction project. The designer notifies the project manager about materials that were not included in the budget due to a technical mistake.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
During a meeting with the customer, it was observed that the features delivered during the last few iterations were not meeting the planned expectations.
What should the project manager do?
A scrum master noticed that one of the team members is afraid to ask questions, does not like to collaborate with other team members, and avoids taking responsibility for their actions. What is the likely reason that would cause a team member to behave that way?
Due to an anticipated expansion, a company procured new technology. The project team responsible for using this technology does not have experience with it.
What should the project manager do?
Two experienced team members in a hybrid project are having a conflict about a technical solution. The project manager has already spoken individually to the two team members without successfully resolving the conflict.
What should the project manager do next?
A project was recently flagged as being noncompliant during an inspection. Several options were suggested on how to address the noncompliance, but each may have different impacts on the budget, schedule, and quality.
How should the project manager proceed?
After establishing a cost baseline and the appropriate cost management plan for a complex hybrid project, the project is still being challenged with cases of budgetary variations. What should the project manager do?
During project execution, a key stakeholder approaches the project manager and questions the business value of the project. What should the project manager do?
An ongoing project with company A is impacted by the recent acquisition of company B. This could affect the current suppliers for the ongoing project.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager was assigned to lead a global project with a virtual team that is globally dispersed. The project manager has difficulties communicating with the team members and there seems to be frequent misunderstandings and conflicts.
What should the project manager do?
An email arrives shortly after the beginning of a sprint. It is from a key project stakeholder who is unfamiliar with agile approaches and has a serious complaint about future work that has been scheduled. The stakeholder is insisting that a future work package be removed from the backlog entirely, claiming that it is unnecessary.
What should the project manager do?
A project has progressed significantly and is getting close to completion. The project manager observed that team members are no longer focused and have started arriving to work late.
What should the project manager do?
A project steering committee meeting was arranged to approve a milestone of a project within two weeks. The project manager is informed that a new project executive will take over the project.
What should the project manager do first?
A project lead is managing an agile project. The project activities, which have been placed in a backlog, still need to be refined and prioritized.
What should the project lead use for backlog refinement considering the sprints are 2 weeks long?
After the first iteration, a scrum master notices that some of the team members are struggling with testing their developed product. What should the scrum master do next?
A project team consists of several consultants from an external vendor. These consultants often change from month to month.
What should the project manager do to communicate the organizational values?
During a sprint, the team is experiencing conflict because the customer asks for additional features that increase the complexity. The scrum master is trying to resolve the conflict.
Which approach should the scrum master use?
Construction work is preventing the project team members from entering the building where their offices are located.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is leading the development and delivery of a strategic product that must be delivered on time. The project is facing technical issues that could significantly impact the budget and ability to deliver some of the product features.
What should the project manager do first to resolve the issue?
At the first retrospective meeting, a developer in a newly formed team points out that frequent delays in documenting the requirement solution are impacting the workflow. The developer wants to know why the analyst is not doing their job on time. Confronting the analyst causes a conflict that quickly escalates. The analyst is certain that the documentation process is not solely their function.
What should the project manager do to resolve the conflict and prevent future conflicts as the team matures?
A project manager just took over a construction project which was already in its execution phase. Labor union representatives of the construction workers ask to revise the overtime per hour rate, as wage per hour have increased across the industry.
What should the project manager do first?
A project is starting with a team that is located all over the world. None of the team members have worked together before. The project goal is ambitious with an aggressive timeline.
What should the project manager do?
A project team is struggling to meet the project deadline due to a reoccurring conflict between two team members. What should the project manager do?
Developers spend most of the sprint writing code for user stories, leaving little time for testing. As a result, user stories cannot be tested in time and the stories remain unfinished by the end of the iteration, resulting in poor metrics.
What should the scrum master do first in this situation?
A project manager coordinates several projects in one program. Each project concerns a different country, has a different sponsor, and has specific business priorities. The resources are shared among the projects. The project manager anticipates this could result in delays and/or conflicts that will affect the program outcomes.
What should the project manager do to prevent such a situation?
A project team wants to change a delivery approach for a project. Team members explain the need for a review of the information-sharing approach to ensure efficient information exchange during the project.
What should the project manager do?
A product owner has indicated there is strong customer interest in adding a new set of functionalities to a product. Using agile approaches, the project manager evaluates the new functionalities of the product.
What should the project manager do?
Four new teams have been formed to develop a new product. Several team members ask the project manager who will integrate the different work streams into one backlog.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is working with a team that is demotivated and tired, as the project has been changing direction due to budget cuts from the sponsor.
What should the project manager do first?
During a contract renewal meeting, an organization's commercial team and the customer are disagreeing and negotiations are failing. What should the project manager do to reach an agreement that will satisfy all parties?
A project manager is working on a hybrid project and is responsible for ensuring the design, build, and delivery of the software is completed in an agile way. How should the project manager plan the iteration?
A project is continuously overlapping phases. Due to a recent human error, the team, which is made up of senior members, is experiencing distrust issues from other departments and lacking initiative. This is impacting overall performance and putting the project objectives at risk.
What should the project manager do when executing the next sprint?
During a requirements review session with a customer, a team member gets upset when questioned by the customer and responds angrily.
What should the project manager do next?
During a planning session, the development team and the product owner are arguing about the effort needed to deliver a specific feature in a software development project. The product owner says that the feature can be developed in one week, whereas the team estimates that it will take at least two weeks. After several hours of discussion, they have not reached an agreement.
What should the project lead do?
A virtual project team has members located on four continents. The project director is concerned about the declining motivational levels of team members and feelings of noninclusion by other team members. The project director has tasked the project manager with finding a solution.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has been asked by the human resources (HR) review team to share information about how the project team members interact, communicate, and conduct themselves to reduce the risk of conflicts and improve overall team performance.
What should the project manager do next?
A project is 20% complete. The client has accepted a project order amendment that involves a major change. Without this major change, the project result will be useless for the client organization.
What should the project manager do?
During a project planning meeting, a product manager and team are finalizing the project deliverables and notice that a key feature has a dependency from another team. A team member suggests removing the feature from the scope.
What should the project manager do?
A project is starting its first iteration out of six. During one of the daily meetings, the project manager realized that one of the team members does not have experience working in agile environments.
What should the project manager do?
A project has obtained all of the necessary legal requirements and policies from the local government. During the execution phase, the product owner is informed that a new law impacting the project deliverables will be published within two weeks.
What should the project lead do?
