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A project is comprised of three highly dependent parts, each being completed by its own project team. The team leader, worried that conflicts might arise when the outputs from the three teams are combined, asks for advice.
What advice should the project manager provide?
An unresolved conflict between a member of a third-party vendor’s team and a member of a project team is causing disruption. The issue is escalated to the project manager.
What is the first thing the project manager should do?
A project is utilizing a third-party contractor. A member of the contractor’s team raises an issue with a member of the project team. The two individuals are NOT able to work out a solution. The project manager is aware of the disagreement.
Which type of communication should the project manager use first when contacting the vendor about this issue?
Three project teams are working on parts of a single project. The parts are highly dependent on each other. The leader of the team indicates that this might create conflicts when the outputs from the three teams are combined.
What guidance should the project manager offer to the team lead?
A planned task in a sprint was nearly NOT completed because of an issue that appeared three (3) days prior but was NOT resolved. The team resolved it in the next daily stand-up meeting, but the project manager wants to prevent this type of situation in the future.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager is working on multiple projects. One project has new team members and is in early stages. The other projects are in various states of execution for the next few weeks.
How can the project manager develop the new project team over the next few weeks?
Leaders of high-performing project teams __________ team membersโ skills and knowledge and keep team members __________ throughout the project.
Fill in the blanks with the correct set of responses.
The project manager receives a progress report showing that the agile project is NOT on track. Since all work was deliberately selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives, the project manager is surprised by the report.
In the future, how can the project manager prevent this type of miscommunication?
Project team members are concerned that a new resource does NOT seem suitable for an assigned task.
How should the project manager respond to this concern?
A project is in the execution stage, and a change in the market pushes stakeholders to make the due date earlier. The project manager rapidly assigns skilled resources to build and establish the team.
Which of the following would NOT be included in the project managerโs next steps?
Project A is experiencing schedule performance issues. After assessing the issues, the project manager determines that project resources have low expertise levels.
Specifically, a few of the senior-level resources perform irrelevant work, and some inexperienced resources take too much time to complete tasks.
The project manager needs to enhance team performance.
Which action should the project manager take?
A project team has been efficiently delivering results. The product upgrade they are working on must be released in three months or else a competitorโs new product will make theirs obsolete. Citing this reason, the product owner makes a sudden request for a feature revision. However, no one on the project team is capable of doing the work. The project sponsor is willing to extend the budget but CANNOT extend the schedule.
What should the project manager do?
Some agile approaches have recently been added to an infrastructure company’s predictive processes. The team is NOT completing the planned story points, and they are becoming passive. The project manager is concerned and wants to improve productivity.
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose TWO.)
Before the next iteration begins, project team B meets about an unexpected challenge which threatens to delay the current phase. The task in the next iteration CANNOT be completed because of this challenge. Another team within the project is depending on timely completion of Task 1 in order to fulfill their work.
How should the project manager resolve this issue?
Project D is working virtually because of a recent natural disaster. Several activities are delayed because a project team member has NOT been working for the past week. This impacts the critical path.
How should the project manager respond to this problem?
A project has a quality management plan in place.
This plan states that project deliverables must be reviewed for quality at least five (5) business days before the deadline. Four deliverables have failed the quality requirement.
What should the project manager do?
A project is started with an approved scope.
As the team implements the project design, a team member states that the product will NOT meet the requirements in certain situations. Correcting the issue increases both scope and costs, and the project will also miss the deadline.
The project sponsors do NOT have additional funding to support the project.
What should the project manager do first?
A project sponsor asks the project manager to change production materials because these materials could cause health problems to consumers.
Which step should the project manager take?
A project manager develops a project management plan and schedule based on an agreed-upon project lifecycle of 16 months. Later, due to changing business requirements, the project sponsor requests completion within nine (9) months.
How should the project manager respond to this proposed change?
A project manager recently joined a new project with the following characteristics:
– Tight deadlines
– Global virtual team
– Fixed budget
During the planning stage, the project manager wants to avoid scope creep and keep the team focused on delivering a product that meets requirements.
How can the project manager achieve this goal?
A large project includes functional groups in four (4) countries, a steering committee, and a project sponsor. As the project approaches completion, the project manager must prepare the closeout documents.
How should the project manager obtain appropriate signoff on the acceptance of project deliverables?
Two (2) users complain during the projectโs user acceptance stage, saying that their expectations were NOT met.
What could the project manager use to avoid this issue in the future?
Company G has a goal of increasing customer satisfaction within four (4) months and initiates a project to meet this goal. The project manager needs to identify best practices.
Which method should the project manager use to accomplish this?
After six (6) iterations, significant variations have occurred to project scope and schedule. These are due to the customer’s technology regulations and security policies, which are regularly reviewed. The project manager suggests taking a new approach to the next iteration to avoid possible delays.
What should the project manager do first?
The team working on Project A has resolved a technical issue, and the project is moving forward. The project manager has been warned that the same issue will probably arise on similar projects in the future.
What should the project manager do first when responding to this warning?
A project manager has completed the following steps:
– Finished a major IT deployment project
– Confirmed with the release manager that all systems are working
– Confirmed that functionality has been verified by the quality assurance team
– Informed the customer
Which next step should the project manager take?
After a project ends, the project manager and project team members are still being asked to do the following:
– Evaluate new requirements
– Make minor modifications
– Solve technical issues
The project manager wants to ensure the product or service developed by the project now has operational support.
What should the project manager do?
A project is delayed because the deliverables are NOT of acceptable quality. A change is required.
First, the project manager issues a formal change request and communicates the change to all stakeholders. The stakeholders are NOT satisfied with this. They want a more detailed report about the nature of the delay.
What should the project manager do next?
The initial draft of a project management plan is completed.
The project manager plans to show the draft to stakeholders for approval. The project manager has limited time to gain approval, the project management plan is lengthy, and stakeholders are located all over the world.
The project manager needs to ensure that the review of the plan is completed on time.
Which action should the project manager take?
A projectโs single sponsor has been replaced by a steering committee due to a significant increase in project size.
How should the project manager approach this change?
A governmental agency becomes a key stakeholder on a complex project due to regulatory changes. In light of the change, the project manager needs to develop an understanding of this new stakeholder and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.
Which two options should the project manager use? (Choose TWO.)
A project team has set up an unofficial online communications platform to enhance communication.
The project manager was NOT aware that this platform existed until recently, after learning that its use has facilitated some activity that a stakeholder finds concerning.
Which action should the project manager take?
An informal and unofficial blog was set up to enhance communication and morale among project team members.
The project manager was NOT previously aware of the blog but has discovered that team members are using it inappropriately. It has caused some offense.
What should the project manager do?
As a result of multiple regulatory changes, a governmental agency is added as a key stakeholder on a complex project. The project manager wants to develop an understanding of this new stakeholder and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.
What should the project manager do?
A project is at the planning stage. The project manager realizes that producing a complex, multi-functional application is NOT feasible with the current number of resources and decides to hire more resources for the production of the application. The project manager identifies and contracts temporary resources.
Which risk response strategy does this scenario exemplify?
Although the sponsor and project team say that the new project has an adequate budget and realistic schedule, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the projectโs success.
What should the project manager do first?
A customer’s end users have NOT completed the required training. The project manager must consider the risk it poses to the timely completion of the project. End user training is a required project deliverable.
Which action should the project manager perform?
A retiring project manager hands over all materials to a new project manager. The project appears to be running smoothly, until a critical component fails during testing.
What is the appropriate first step when responding to this issue?
A team member has taken unplanned leave during the execution of a project, causing the project team to reschedule some tasks. As a result, critical activities are now occurring at the same time.
What is the first thing the project manager should do?
A project sponsor is risk averse and is therefore concerned about negative impacts on the project. To help with this concern, the project team identifies four (4) project risks and then evaluates both the probability of occurrence and the impact of the risk if it occurs. The team uses a 1-5 scale โ (โ1โ is the lowest and โ5โ is the highest).
Risk
Probability
Impact
A
3
5
B
4
2
C
3
3
D
2
2
Based on the table, in what order should the project manager rank these risks for risk management purposes?
After the start of a project, the project manager learns that an expected governmental subsidy may NOT be available.
How should the project manager address this issue?
A project manager realizes that stakeholder interests will conflict on a project and decides to utilize a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.
The matrix pinpoints an influential stakeholder who is resistant to the project. The project manager needs to align this stakeholder’s expectations with the goals of the project.
How can the project manager accomplish this goal?
How can a project manager gain a stakeholder’s approval, if the stakeholder believes a project’s deliverables were NOT achieved?
A project has the following characteristics:
– A functional manager is also a project stakeholder.
– The functional manager has time constraints and delegates project responsibilities
to someone else on the functional team. This person becomes a new stakeholder.
– The new stakeholder is NOT attending meetings.
How should the project manager engage this new stakeholder?
A global organization sponsors a project that involves six (6) different companies. When the project is partially complete, the project manager learns that one stakeholder is ill and needs to decrease their level of involvement.
What should the project manager do?
During work on a government project, stakeholders exert pressure on the project manager to comply with their preferred actions because they have extremely complex regulations and constraints.
The project manager wants to build a successful relationship with these stakeholders because the company hopes to win more contracts with the government.
Which two approaches should the project manager take? (Choose TWO.)
A deliverable on the project’s critical path is behind schedule.
The cost performance index (CPI) is 1.3. The project manager is able to put the project back on schedule.
Which three results are the most likely for this project? (Choose THREE.)
A project that should have been 90% complete by now is only 65% complete. The total project budget is US$120,000 and the actual cost spent to date (AC) is US$80,000.
What is the scheduled performance index (SPI) and cost performance index (CPI) of this project?
A project is 7 months into execution. The project manager determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is .80.
According to a trend analysis, the CPI has a downward trend.
What should the project manager do next?
The project manager learns that one team member needs to complete a critical task that is outside of the project, resulting in a scheduling risk for the project.
How can the project manager eliminate this risk?
A project that should have been 70% complete by now is only 55% complete. The total project budget is US$210,000, and the actual cost spent to date is US$162,000.
What is the scheduled performance index (SPI) and cost performance index (CPI) of this project?
A project that should have been 90% complete by now is only 84% complete. The total project budget is US$110,000 and the actual cost to date is US$82,000.
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) and cost performance index (CPI) for this project?
The project is overseen by a senior project manager. A new project manager joins the project, and the sponsor asks the new project manager to develop the quality management plan.
How should the new project manager proceed?
A medium-sized company is expanding into a new market. However, the company does NOT have previous experience in that market.
A project manager needs to collect requirements.
Which two tools or techniques should the project manager use? (Choose TWO.)
A marketing team is developing a new website for an existing product range. The team reads through some customer comments submitted on the current website:
– โToo much clicking!โ
– โMore and better please.โ
– โMake it easierโ
Which tool or technique should the marketing team use to identify the target audience’s style preferences?
A project has the following characteristics:
– To determine what product should be created, a feasibility study was conducted.
– A change request was approved to develop another product that contradicts the original
requirements.
– Data analysis was conducted before the change request was approved.
Which action should the project manager take?
A new law is expected within the next six (6) months that will affect a businessโ product line. The next product is launching and should be completed within three (3) months. Unfortunately, the new product will NOT meet the requirements of the proposed law.
How should the project manager respond to this potential problem?
A project team learns about a new compliance requirement from an international entity that may impact the baseline business case for the project. They learn this right after the project charter is completed and the project sponsor has signed.
How should the project manager proceed?
A project manager leaves the company and is replaced. The new project manager is excited to start guiding the team toward project success.
What should the new project manager do first?
A project manager receives the following for a new project:
– Assumptions
– Restrictions
– Preliminary scope
After receiving this information, what should the project manager do first?
A week prior to the project kick-off call, a project manager meets with a key project resource to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of the project deliverables.
The resource expresses concern and worry regarding the deliverables.
How can the project manager ensure that the deliverables are realistic?
A key project resource is discussing the complexity of project deliverables with the project manager two (2) weeks before the kick-off call. The resource expresses nervousness and concern regarding the deliverables.
The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are realistic.
What is the appropriate action to take?
During user testing, a client agrees to the final product. One day later, the client indicates that the final product MAY NOT be acceptable.
What should be the project managerโs first step for resolving this issue?
A company is losing market share to competitors with new business models. The agile team is asked to restrict the number of features of a product and release a version more quickly to the market.
How will this request impact the planning?
The Project Management Office wants to offer constant reporting across the dozens of agile projects running concurrently. They want to use information radiators to share progress status and key lessons learned.
How can this best be achieved?
An innovative product fails to satisfy targeted consumers despite significant investments in quality control and marketing campaigns.
Which agile practice would best prevent future failures of this nature?
An agile project is structured without timeboxing. Tasks are grouped by high-level goal but CANNOT be predictably scheduled.
In which three ways can the work be distributed for efficient execution? (Choose THREE.)
Six months into a strategic agile project, company executives are closely monitoring its progress. The COO expresses frustration that the last weekly burn-down charts show the projected completion date significantly moving back and forward several times.
How can the project manager forecast the completion date with more accuracy and certainty?
A start-up company needs to quickly expand its product portfolio to meet market demand. Recently, staff members are working on two or three agile teams, each dedicated to a different product line. Output is dropping and defect rates are rising in all teams.
In which two ways can the project manager help the agile teams improve their work? (Choose TWO.)
An empowered agile team showed impressive progress in the first four iterations, but now the product owner has noticed low output in the latest five iterations without any apparent reason.
What could be the cause of this situation?
The marketing director is displeased that the agile innovation team is producing too many novelty products with too little business value.
Which two approaches should the project manager take to correct the team’s approach? (Choose TWO.)
The agile team will take over from another supplier to maintain a client’s website. The team notices that recent browser changes imply that most of the website’s existing content would now require users to install a plug-in.
How should the agile team move forward?
A project to start building an ecology-focused resort complex is planned, and the contract is ready for signature. The client now asks the prime contractor to suspend planned development work on a parcel of land while the team runs a consumer studyโthe team needs to know what kind of structures to build on the parcel.
What should the prime contractor do to quickly close the deal, given the new client requirements?
A new wildlife reserve project will have a staff of approximately 80 experts, builders, and logistics workers with exposure to various safety risks. The project manager wants a scalable approach combining flexibility and team dynamics with traditional safeguards.
Which option could be used to tailor a hybrid project of this nature?
A hybrid virtual reality project is running an agile software track and a predictive electronics track. Halfway into the project, delays are accumulating due to misaligned deliverable releases between the two tracks.
Which two elements should the project manager combine to produce a common network diagram? (Choose TWO.)
Two (2) months into a Three (3)-year mobile telecom roll-out, the project manager discovers that approximately fifteen percent (15%) of the equipment is prohibited for delivery because of an embargo. The procurement contract does NOT cover the embargo case, but the company could incur severe penalties for incomplete delivery.
What is the appropriate solution for the situation?
A project team is comprised of local and virtual team members. To manage scheduling priority conflicts among team members, the project manager schedules a video conference call.
Which conflict resolution technique does this statement demonstrate?
The project manager schedules an iteration review and learns that a few key stakeholders do NOT approve of the development of a feature.
What should the project manager do first to address this issue?
Certain key stakeholders are dissatisfied with the development of a key feature of a project. They express their dissatisfaction during an iteration review meeting.
What should the project manager do first to resolve this issue?
A project manager needs stakeholder involvement in order to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. Unfortunately, the project manager is finding it hard to obtain consistent input due to lack of participation.
In which two ways can the project manager encourage the stakeholder to participate and collaborate? (Choose TWO.)
A project team is small, and the team members have known each other for a long time. The team’s project is in the execution stage. Recently, a team member told the new project manager that another team member has been complaining about how the project is being managed.
How should this new project manager respond?
A cross-functional team on Project B reports a delay in developing a prototype. The project manager believes that the cause is lack of knowledge in a specific, required skill on the team.
In which three ways can the project manager prevent this situation on future projects? (Choose THREE.)
A project manager notices that team member A seems more unhappy after every team meeting. After looking into the situation, the project manager finds out that team member A is not making progress on a key activity. This has an impact on the critical path. Team member A also feels that they are NOT in the correct role within the project team.
What should the project manager do?
A customer requests a change in the technical approach for a product in development. The project manager learns about this request during a recurring project review.
How should the project manager respond?
A project manager receives complaints from a project sponsor because of a delay in developing a prototype. The project manager consults the resource management plan and responds that the delay was due to a lack of knowledge in a specific skill that was needed by the cross-functional project team.
How can the project manager perform this task better in the future?
Several new members are added to an ongoing project. Although all original team members received basic training on the specifics of the business operation that the project supports, the new members do NOT have the same basic understanding. This lack of understanding results in decreased productivity.
How should the project manager respond to this issue?
During Project Aโs kickoff phase, the project manager provided training for the entire team regarding the specifics of the company operations that the project supports.
A year later, project productivity is suffering because members who were added later in the project do NOT have the same level of understanding.
How should the project manager respond to this challenge?
A project manager is working on a small project that is critical for a larger program milestone. A new resource has been assigned to replace a key resource who had to leave the project. Unfortunately, an outside stakeholder claims that the person who assigned the new resource sent their weakest team member.
How should the project manager approach this rumor?
During a technical project, a well-liked project member is reassigned to a different project. The team has expressed disapproval regarding the reassignment.
What action can help mitigate the team’s disapproval?
A new resource joins a working project team and is assigned to a small project that is critical to a larger program milestone. Unfortunately, the new resource is under-skilled and very nervous. The team dynamic has become awkward, and work has slowed on the small project.
Which are two possible ways for the project manager to handle this situation? (Choose TWO.)
During an iteration, a project team working in country B encounters problems that may cause a delay in completion of task B. Teams in country A need task B to be completed on time in order to meet their schedules. These teams work together virtually.
What can the project manager do to resolve this problem?
A new project manager needs to deliver a high-stakes agile project. The vendor working with the team is in another country. Though this vendor has delivered excellent quality work on time in the past, they are currently behind schedule. The team explains to the project manager that their attempts to get the vendor back on schedule have failed. They have sent emails and phoned, but the vendor only gives vague, noncommittal responses. The project sponsor insists that this vendor is essential to the success of the project and an important partner of the business.
Which action should the project manager take?
A longstanding, key team member in a virtual team has been unmotivated for weeks after the death of a family member. Because of this, several project activities are behind schedule, impacting the projectโs critical path.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
The sales and marketing director at company A reports a 40% drop in revenue and significant increase in returns for Widget version 6.0. Customers are complaining directly to customer service and the social media teams report a high rate of negative feedback.
The project team is already working on Widget version 6.1., which is a small set of upgrades and bug fixes. The director gets in touch with the team, requesting a full disclosure of the version 6.0 and 6.1 requirements.
How should the project manager interact with this stakeholder?
A customer contemplates adding new features to a project deliverable.
Which mandatory step must a project manager take before a project team member can start working on these new features?
A client’s employee asks the project manager for an additional, new product feature during a status meeting.
To which document should the project manager first refer to determine who has the authority to approve this request?
A team was in the execution stage of the project management plan when three (3) necessary changes were brought to their attention. The team members all have differing opinions regarding how to implement the changes.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager needs to ensure that the team delivers business value within the required timelines. The project manager recently learned that key stakeholders are worried that the current release plan will NOT meet urgent business needs.
How can the project manager effectively respond to stakeholder concerns?
A customer indicates that they would like to add a functionality to a product in development. Although this request is made during the execution stage of the project, the project manager determines that the cost for the addition would be small. The additional functionality, if successful, would increase the opportunity for profit.
What should the project manager do next?
The project sponsor requests that an element of a product will be swapped for the equivalent supplied by a local manufacturer in order to have a more sustainable supply chain.
Which action should the project manager take?
A projectโs workload is increasing significantly, and the resource level is NOT sufficient. In response, management outsources some major tasks to keep the project on schedule.
What should the project manager do in this scenario?
A textile development project needs a specialized resource to work for 900 hours. The company has decided to outsource these hours. Because of internal policies, all potential service providers must be given the same information about the requirements.
Which action should the project manager take to ensure this?
Because a deliverable does NOT meet the agreed-upon quality specifications, it is rejected by the customer. Team members find that the deliverable fails to meet expectations because of a problem with vendor-provided parts.
The vendor says that they will NOT correct the problem.
Before deciding on next steps, what should the project manager do?
Near the end of a manufacturing project, several team members are transferred to another project. To complete the work, the project manager needs to acquire additional resource support from a new supplier but is concerned about the cost risk of using a new supplier at this advanced stage of the project.
Now, the project manager needs to work with the procurement team to establish specifications and type of contract to be used.
What should be done?
A deliverable does NOT meet the agreed-upon quality specifications and is rejected by the customer. After investigation, the project team finds a fault with the vendor-provided parts. This fault caused the issue. The vendor says that they CANNOT correct the situation.
What should the project manager review before deciding on next steps?
A project team collected sensitive client data during the early stages of a project to help develop the project management plan. The team is now working on deliverables for the project when the compliance manager discovers a data breach and alerts the team to a compliance issue.
Which document should the project manager review first?
A project manager begins to prepare the project management plan after receiving the project charter.
There is currently NO historical information in the project management office (PMO).
What next step should the project manager take in this scenario?
Project team members are busier than usual. They indicate that they do NOT have the time to update the lessons learned repository because of other project responsibilities.
How should the project manager respond?
Review the following steps.
1. A project has been successfully delivered.
2. The project manager is executing formal closure.
3. ______________________________________.
What is Step 3?
Review the following project characteristics:
– The project is in the initiation phase.
– Due to lack of funding, the project is terminated.
– The project manager must close the project.
What is the first action the project manager should take?
In response to slippage on some scheduled tasks, the project manager reprioritized a number of subsequent tasks to try to fix the problem.
This did NOT work, so the project manager needs to escalate the issue.
Which two (2) items will the project manager need to consult? (Choose TWO.)
Project A is developing a customer service prototype for a companyโs marketing department. The customer stakeholder group includes franchise owners and direct customers of the company. The prototype scores 95% on fulfilment of the functional requirements defined in the scope, which is a passing score in the projectโs agreed quality metrics.
The franchise group is unwilling to approve the prototype since it does NOT fulfill a particular functional requirement, but the direct customer group gives approval.
How can the project manager handle communication with this diverse stakeholder group?
A project is being planned in a remote area with limited access to vehicles and equipment. Additionally, the road to the site goes through a protected area, and the government has required the company to sign a contract that they will protect the environment and road from damage.
The project manager decides the best way to manage this risk is to deliver all heavy equipment themselves, despite the significant added expense.
What type of risk response is the project manager demonstrating?
A project sponsor is risk averse and is therefore concerned about negative impacts on the project. To help with this concern, the project team identifies four project risks and then evaluates both the probability of occurrence and the impact of the risk if it occurs. The team uses a 1-5 scale (1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest).
Risk
Probability
Impact
A 1 5
B 4 4
C 2 5
D 2 2
Based on the table, in what order should the project manager rank these risks for risk management purposes?
Prior to preparing a monthly project status report, a project team brings three risks to the project managerโs attention.
The project manager wants to reference additional information before presenting this as new risk information.
Where can the project manager look to evaluate these risks?
In order to speed the completion of project Z, a project sponsor requisitions a project team that can work a full 24-hour day, in three (3) shifts, in hazardous conditions.
โข Team A: 02:00h โ 10:00h
โข Team B: 10:00h โ 18:00h
โข Team C: 18:00 โ 02:00h
In order to work nighttime hours safely, teams A and C will need to receive overtime pay and the company will need to increase security measures and their insurance coverage.
Where should the project manager document this request in the project charter?
A project manager is working with three (3) key stakeholders. Each has a different vision regarding the project and its goal. They each feel strongly about their opinion.
How should the project manager obtain approval of the project charter?
A project manager is creating an agenda and presentation materials for a kick-off meeting that will involve stakeholders across the globe.
How can the project manager facilitate and optimize stakeholder engagement?
A company is struggling to define the scope of a new project that has multiple phases with a high level of dependency between the phases.
How should the project manager approach this challenge?
A project has the following characteristics:
– US$3 million budget
– Planned value of US$630,000
– Actual cost of US$650,000
– Earned value of US$540,000
Which statement is true about the current status of the project?
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A project manager is uncertain about the duration of a project for a new product and consults several groups of subject matter experts (SMEs). The first group advises that development can be finished in 40 days. The second group identifies some risks that could make the duration up to 60 days. The third group proposes a new development method that can shorten the time to 20 days.
What is the estimated development duration for the new product?
A project manager is uncertain about the duration of a new project and consults several groups of subject matter experts (SMEs). The first group advises that development can be finished in 29 days. The second group identifies some risks that could make the duration up to 46 days. The third group proposes a new development method that can shorten the time to 18 days.
Using the Triangular estimation technique, what is the estimated development duration for the new product?
A project manager is uncertain about the duration of a new product development project and consults several groups of subject matter experts (SMEs). The first group advises that development can be finished in 14 days. The second group identifies some risks that could make the duration up to 32 days. The third group proposes a new development method that can shorten the time to 8 days.
What is the estimated development duration for the new product using the Beta estimation technique?
A project is in the execution stage. Based on the originally approved blueprint, 1,000 products were developed. The project team randomly chooses 100 products to evaluate against the quality plan.
What is the project team undertaking?
A project manager needs to ensure that all data security requirements are covered during a data warehouse development projectโs execution phase. Each of the databases created during different project phases will have a specific data security policy to comply with governmental data security laws.
How should the project manager plan to meet these requirements?
Several items remain in the Kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to address them. The retrospective reveals that all the impediments can be traced back to a particular department head. Previously, the project manager has tried to educate this stakeholder, but they still show resistance.
What should the project manager do next?
The agile team sometimes has idle periods while awaiting a product director to inform the product owner on new goals. The decisions depend on analysis of market research.
Which measure could reconcile the needs of the director and the agile team?
A travel company wants to create smartphone applications for their users. Competitors are racing to do the same. The product owner’s vision describes several versions of the app: Basic, Basic Ad-free, Pro, and Premium.
Which project approach is best suited to the company’s needs?
A security-classified, agile software project requires outside expertise and delivery to add a module based on machine learning. An approved supplier asks the project manager to join the daily meeting with the supplier’s agile team, but the project manager’s schedule is too full with internal meetings.
How could the two teams synchronize interactively but somewhat less frequently?
A consultant has advised an IT director to use a DevOps approach to a migration project. The IT director wants to understand how the necessary speed can be achieved in a safe way.
Which examples could demonstrate how DevOps can reduce incidents and speed up deployment at the same time? {Choose TWO.)
A consultant has advised an IT director to use a development and operations (DevOps) approach to a migration project. The IT director wants to understand how the necessary speed can be achieved in a safe way.
Which two examples could demonstrate how DevOps can reduce incidents and speed up deployment at the same time? {Choose TWO.)
Over the past six months, the cost per story in agile project A has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is no longer supported. The project will exceed the budget increment threshold at the next iteration.
Who should decide if the project should be cancelled?
A project manager is visiting a software supplier’s office. Some of the sights are surprising: two people per workstation, estimations based on a deck of cards, developers forcing their tests to fail, and routines with names such as “traffic cop” and “ringleader”.
What could explain these practices?
An ongoing agile project is measured as follows:
2-week Stories Stories Planned Earned
Sprint Planned Completed Value Value
1 15 10 450K 300K
2 20 18 600K 540K
3 20 25 800K 1000K
4 22 25 1100K 1250K
__________________________________________
Totals 77 78 2950K 3090K
According to the table, which two of the following are the project’s metrics? (Choose TWO.)
The agile team surpassed the planned number of stories in the last three agile iterations.
How can the project manager be sure all the work performed is truly complete?
An agile team is struggling to solve a blocking issue with packaging design. Eventually, they find a solution, but it requires a different product format.
What should the team do before further developing the solution?
The legal team informs the product owner that another company owns a patent for an innovation used in the agile team’s product, which is now 75% complete.
What should the product owner do to determine the appropriate way forward?
A new product development project is to be initiated in a difficult business context. Competition is driving prices down, and supply costs are rising.
Why would an agile incremental project approach be the safest choice in this context?
An agile team needs to decide who should represent them in the Scrum of Scrums.
Which option should be used to select the best-suited team member?
A company is constructing recycling plants in fifteen (15) countries around the world. The lead in the project management office (PMO) wants more timely progress reporting and experience sharing between project managers in each of the geographically distant projects.
Which two agile methods might the PMO use to fulfill this need? (Choose TWO).
A merger of two companies results in combining an agile software project and a predictive electronics project into a single hybrid project. Two months later, requirements have changed in both tracks but NEITHER has a full picture on status or importance of the requirements.
How can the project manager best resolve the problem?
The project sponsor is NOT convinced that an agile track should be used in a new R&D project because the company needs to be certain that specific features will be ready for mass production by a specific date.
Which three agile methods can ensure that the sponsor’s needs can be fulfilled in a hybrid project approach? (Choose THREE.)
The IT integration team has a major setback in a hybrid project. Testing has confirmed that the hardware does NOT support the target operating system. The agile team’s software releases must now run on a later operating system version.
What should the project manager do next?
A new regulation requires consumer warnings on labels, but a company’s product package is too small to fit the additional information. The regulatory specification does NOT provide a solution, so the agile team decides to solve the problem by displaying the information on a fold-out flap. The start of mass production of the new labels, the project’s next milestone, is scheduled to begin in five days.
What should the agile team do next?
An energy infrastructure vendor is delivering a complex solution proof of concept to a new strategic customer. The predictive project should complete in 10 weeks, but there is a long list of outstanding items, and some are dependent on external events with uncertain scheduling.
How should the project manager handle the outstanding items?
A smart grid project combines predictive and agile tracks. The agile team detected a major software defect after its release and began working on a correction. But the defective release was deployed by the predictive track, and this caused a field test to fail.
Which measure would be most effective to prevent similar problems in the future?
A pharmaceutical project includes an agile team of doctors who analyze human tissue scans from drug trial patients. The CEO wants to leverage Machine Learning (ML) technology, because it is proven to be faster and more accurate than doctors in scan analysis.
How should the product owner proceed in response to the CEO’s wish?
A Project Manager joins a project as a replacement on a project team. During initial meetings, the Project Manager realized there are many differing opinions about how to address technical decisions. Team members did not respect each other’s ideas, and the environment was becoming counterproductive. However, now the team has begun to communicate more effectively and develop some processes and procedures for working together.
In what phase of development is the team now?
A project manager joins a project team, replacing a manager who left. During initial meetings, the project manager realized that the team members have differing opinions about how to address technical decisions. Team members did NOT respect each other’s ideas, and the environment was becoming counterproductive. However, now with the new manager’s leadership, the team has begun to communicate more effectively and develop some processes and procedures for working together.
In what phase of development is the team now?
During a challenging stakeholder meeting, one stakeholder indicates that they will reject an iterationโs deliverable.
What should the project manager do?
A project manager has assembled a project team. During initial meetings, the project manager observes that team members are getting to know each other, feeling excited and positive about the project, and have NOT been told the specific details of the project.
In what phase of development is the team?
A project manager with limited experience managing globally distributed team members is appointed to a project with team members who are all from another country and speak a different native language.
To successfully manage this project, the project manager needs to have cultural sensitivity.
What of the following actions should the project manager NOT take?
A new project team is setting early priorities, and they plan to gain the customer’s trust by delivering value as quickly as possible. Team member C mentions that they have worked with the project sponsor on other projects.
How should the project manager connect these two facts and create an advantage for the project team?
A project has the following characteristics:
– Schedule performance issues occur due to low expertise levels of project resources.
– Junior-level resources are NOT completing tasks in a timely manner.
– Highly-experienced resources report that their junior colleagues are performing unnecessary tasks.
In what two ways can the project manager enhance the performance of this team? (Choose TWO.)
A project manager in an organization that uses traditional project management is assigned to an ongoing project. Recently, the organization has started to use agile methodologies for projects. The project manager hears that some team members think key subject matter expertise is missing and that the team does NOT collaborate enough.
How should the project manager respond to these team members’ concerns?
During a meeting, a project manager learns that a business result needs to be delivered in four (4) weeks, although the original schedule stated sixteen (16) weeks. The project manager also hears that there is NO available technical resource. The project manager knows the technical resource manager because they worked together on a previous project.
What is the first thing the project manager should do?
A project manager in a virtual team realizes, during the third iteration of product development, that the team dashboard that shows progress on work is faulty and is NOT showing updates.
Which action should the project manager take?
A project manager is preparing the charter for a project. The project aims to automate 30 percent of the companyโs product testing. The project sponsor advises the project manager to assign senior test engineers to identify the tests that can be automated.
The test department manager, however, is NOT cooperative because they believe that the project will lead to downsizing in their department.
Which two actions are suitable in this scenario? (Choose TWO.)
A customer is NOT satisfied with the delivered product, saying that it was NOT what they expected. The project manager is surprised, because the agile development team delivered the product several iterations early.
What is one way that the project manager could have avoided this result?
A key stakeholder voices a concern during the planning stage about whether the available resources are adequate to meet the objectives of the project. After further discussion about the requirements and the number of resources identified, the project manager is hesitant about the original plan.
Which two steps should the project manager take next? (Choose TWO.)
A contractor has sent an email request for urgent payment of their last invoice on a project that is going through a long execution stage with multiple contractors.
How should the project manager respond to this contractor’s request?
A project manager observes that team members are in a low mood after demos. Feedback from stakeholders is constantly causing concern for the team. As a result, the team rushes through product demos, and the interaction between the team and stakeholders is minimal.
Which action should the project manager take?
A project is 50% completed. An essential project team member requests two (2) months leave for personal matters.
What should the project manager do first?
A project manager for a construction firm meets with stakeholders. All stakeholders agree on a 20-month lifecycle for a project. After work has begun, the project manager learns that stakeholders would like project completion within no more than 16 months.
Which step should the project manager NOT take?
A project involves six different companies, and the project sponsor is a global organization. At the midpoint of the project, the project manager learns that one stakeholder is experiencing difficulties and CANNOT provide their former level of involvement.
The project manager needs to __________ and then __________. (Fill in the blanks with the correct pair of answers.)
A project manager works for a company that is preparing to develop a new product. The new product will require skills that are NOT currently available.
To initiate this project, what should the project manager do?
The project sponsor requires a project team composed of resources that live in four (4) different time zones, working in four (4) different locations. The project sponsor did NOT consider the challenges created by this requirement and believes that the dispersion will provide an ideal project team that will save costs.
Where should the project manager document this in the project charter?
Due to resource challenges, a contractor is late with a critical project deliverable, even though the work is nearly complete. The project must be delivered on time because the next projects depend on on-time completion of this one.
There is a 22% buffer in the project budget for cost overruns, but only three (3) weeks left in the schedule.
How can the project manager resolve this issue?
Project C is a partnership between a major city and a government contractor. Each of these entities have a different risk threshold, so it is the project managerโs role to ensure a risk approach that will satisfy both parties. Project C has a realistic schedule and an adequate budget; however, the project manager worries that unplanned events could threaten the projectโs success and cause the city sponsor to be concerned.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
After missing two (2) consecutive major deadlines because of delayed glass deliveries, a manufacturing company changes its glass supplier to meet production deadlines. Three (3) months later, production reports quality problems with the new glass. The project manager determines that the supplier change caused quality problems.
How should the project manager avoid this issue in the future?
A company is planning to utilize a new product that leverages innovative technologies and processes.
The project manager has verified that the component work packages have been defined, and constraints for each component have been identified.
Which estimating technique should the project manager use to obtain a precise cost estimate of the project?
A skincare company reports growing customer complaints about an underweight product. A project manager needs to determine if something needs to be changed in the production line.
Which tool or technique can the project manager use for this task?
A client brings a project manager into a project during the project’s execution stage.
The project manager reviews the project scope for cost estimating purposes and notices that some deliverables were missed in the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Which step should the project manager take next?
Review the following project characteristics:
– A sponsor approves a project.
– The project manager invites selected team members, key stakeholders, and the sponsor to
a meeting.
– The primary purpose of the meeting is to create a document that will guide the team in
defining the main project deliverables.
What will be the final output of this meeting?
A project has the following characteristics:
– It is in the execution stage.
– A new law requires immediate compliance.
– This law will impact the project’s scope, schedule, and cost.
What are three possible actions to ensure compliance? (Choose THREE.)
Project N is a business merger in a highly regulated industry. The project sponsor and a high-level executive have asked for changes that appear to disregard legal requirements.
What should be the first step in the project manager’s response?
Several items remain in the Kanban blocked column despite the team’s efforts to resolve the issues. The retrospective reveals that all of the impediments relate to mandatory corporate business processes, which introduce wait times.
What should the project manager do next?
At the end of an agile project, all stories are completed on schedule and all tests passed, but the customer does NOT consider the product a success.
Which is the most effective way to prevent this outcome in future projects?
A product owner in an agile project complains of too many meetings in their monthly schedule. There is NOT enough time for project work. They instruct the project manager to prioritize some meetings and decrease the frequency of others.
Which two of the product ownerโs meetings could the project manager deprioritize so that they attend less frequently? (Choose TWO.)
A start-up has grown quickly, and there are now four (4) agile teams working on interrelated products. All teams have begun to experience impediments and gaps related to work in other teams.
How should the project manager address this problem?
During sprint planning, some new backlog items are prioritized but NOT estimated. The product owner requires a new set of tests to verify the unique properties of the items.
What should happen before adding it to the sprint backlog?
A smartphone manufacturer is re-assessing its product development methods in response to a sharp increase in user complaints. Analysis of the complaints indicates that the users try to use some features in ways that designers did NOT anticipate.
Given these findings, which agile practice would most effectively prevent the problem?
User test results for a prototype release are ready. The test users describe the kind of smoother experience they want, the many missing features they desire, and the ways the product could be more visually appealing.
What conclusions can be drawn from the user’s input?
During estimating, the team is discussing an item in the backlog. It becomes clear that the item can be done in different ways, but the best way is NOT obvious.
What should the team do to progress on this item?
An agile innovation team is highly productive. However, the Head of Operations informs the product owner that the company is NOT getting sustainable return on investment from the team’s work.
How should the product owner address the problem?
An ongoing agile project is measured as follows:
2-week Stories Stories Planned Earned
Sprint Planned Completed Value Value
1 15 10 450K 300K
2 20 18 600K 540K
3 20 25 800K 1000K
4 22 25 1100K 1250K
What two conclusions can be drawn from these figures? (Choose TWO.)
The quarterly results show that competitors are driving prices down. The company is losing market share and midway into a product development project, it appears the sponsoring unit is not likely to get return on their investment.
Which two actions should the project manager do adapt the project to these new conditions? (Choose TWO.)
As part of an organizational change program, an experienced project manager with agile experience and certification is hired by a company with a strong predictive culture.
Which two actions can the project manager take to start helping the company adopt agile methodologies? (Choose TWO.)
An emergency vaccine roll-out project should be deployed to vaccination centers as soon as confirmed locations are booked. Factors such as delayed batch shipments, safety protocols, and target age groups may block the deployment at the last minute. However, the deployment process does NOT vary after passing the tollgate to begin setup at a new location.
Which project approach would best support the goal to maximize the number of centers deployed?
The latest software build for a virtual reality headset release did NOT include urgent change requests already implemented by the electronics workstream. The product owner informed the software team about the change during a daily meeting, but NO ONE recorded it.
What should the project manager do to avoid this problem in the future?
A hybrid project combines IT integration and software development tasks. The predictive and agile teams seem to be working in silos, resulting in misaligned deliverable scheduling.
Which two measures would most effectively enable the teams to better synchronize their deliveries? (Choose TWO.)
A medical equipment vendor is running a hybrid project which includes some custom software development by an agile team. The team progress is good, but slow customer approval causes unnecessary delays. The customer insists that approval can only be given after repeating all the test cases in the target environment.
How can the project manager accelerate the approvals and build customer trust at the same time?
Several unforeseen impediments suddenly appear on the Kanban board in a hybrid project. Each team member has reported one or more different problems relating to a regulatory specification issued by the predictive track.
Which parameter is likely to be highest in the risk assessment?
In a hybrid product design project, the team encounters a 3D printer malfunction resulting in costly losses of titanium supplies. When the production team tells the agile programming team about the problem, it becomes clear that mistranslated data sheets created problems for both teams. However, the agile team resolved their problems a month before the malfunction.
What could the agile team have done to prevent the current malfunction?
A multi-year, hybrid pharmaceutical project adds new fixed-date activities for the team to run Machine Learning (ML) processing of medical scans. The output from the ML analysis is used by an agile team of doctors to determine next steps in a patient case.
The project manager has updated the scope statement and schedule.
In which three other documents should the project manager record this new process? (Choose THREE.)
At a weekly project status meeting, a key team member expresses concerns about the overall approach documented within the project management plan. The project manager is surprised because the team is in the process of executing an important component of the project and the concern has NOT been raised before.
What steps should the project manager take?
A product owner repeatedly complains, saying that a function developed by the development team does NOT seem to align with the original design.
What will help to solve this issue?
A team misunderstood one product functionality documented in an earlier stage of the project. During the current iteration, the functionality has NOT yet been developed, but a business representative has mentioned the deficiency.
How should the project manager proceed?
During the execution of a project, a key team member is concerned with the overall approach documented in the project management plan. The member surprises the project manager with negative comments about the approach during a weekly status meeting.
How should the project manager address the team memberโs concerns?
A project team is working with an overseas contractor based in a country that has three official languages, and every contractor on the team is multilingual. Team meetings continue to be held in the commonly shared language, but during project work meetings, contractors speak to each other in a different language.
When the project manager brings this up in the next team meeting, the contractors express regret, but they explain that they work better when they can communicate freely with each other.
How should the project manager respond first?
A project manager went on a vacation and returned to discord. According to two stakeholders, stakeholder C is causing problems. Every day for the last two (2) weeks, stakeholder C sent an email to the team, checking progress and giving new instructions. The team ignored the emails and carried on working, but the other stakeholders are concerned about stakeholder Cโs behavior.
What should the project manager do?
A projectโs daily stand-up meetings are long, often lasting more than two hours. The project team uses the stand-up meetings for extended discussions about solutions to project obstacles.
What should the project manager do to improve the daily stand-up meetings?
A project manager is having difficulty obtaining consistent input from stakeholders and needs their input to identify assumptions and constraints.
How can the project manager improve stakeholder engagement?
A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, some team members have NOT had the appropriate agile training.
How should the project manager respond to the lack of agile training?
An agile approach is required during the final phase in a teamโs project. As the team discusses the phase, some team members disclose that they have NOT worked with agile before. The deadline is approaching soon.
How should the project manager respond?
A technology development project has the following characteristics:
-It requires a highly skilled resource that is unavailable locally.
-The Project Manager has identified a resource who can work on site, but the resource lives in a different country and requires a work visa.
-The work visa process is taking more time than anticipated.
What should the Project Manager do?
A key team member is asked to move to another project during the middle of a technical project. The team believes this is an unwise move and expresses concern.
Which action will help to resolve the issue?
Project manager A identifies three critical risks with probability of a high impact on the schedule and budget of project Aโthis project is producing critical deliverables for the company.
The team meets to devise a solution for the risks and decides that three specific resources will be required to address the risks. However, these resources are already committed to a separate project, which is managed by project manager B.
Which party should the project manager work with first to find a solution?
During one daily stand-up meeting, team members suggest that rework is being caused because there seems to be too much work.
How should the project manager respond to this?
Company Pโs IT transformation project has three (3) deliverables, and they have the following characteristics, according to the project team:
– Deliverable 2 has strictly scheduled milestones, with no expected variation in the timeline.
– Requirements for deliverables 1 and 3 will change quickly during development.
Which project lifecycle should the project manager use for this project?
While reviewing the issue log, the project manager notices that tasks assigned to two (2) team members are quite a bit behind schedule.
What should the project manager do?
Project team members are spending a lot of time helping maintenance and operations staff with a recently commissioned project component.
The project manager needs to validate that the component was signed off and ownership transferred.
Which three (3) documents should the project manager use for this decision?
A project is completed, but the project manager and project team members are being asked to do the following:
– Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
– Evaluate new requirements
– Make minor adjustments
The project manager needs to ensure that the product developed by the project now has operational support.
What should the project manager do?
A complex project with high security protocols has key stakeholders located in the United States, France, and China.
A senior manager requests confidential project information to be shared with a project partner.
Which step should the project manager take next?
After a project delay, the project manager determines that a change is needed to the product deliverables in order to ensure quality. The project manager takes the following steps:
1. Issues a formal change request.
2. Communicates the change to all stakeholders.
3. Receives feedback that the communications approach did NOT meet stakeholders’
expectations.
What should the project manager do next?
A project is being implemented.
The research and development department communicates to the project manager that the product’s requirements have changed. These changes were NOT anticipated, may significantly influence potential sales numbers, and could impact project scope.
Which action should the project manager take?
A company wants to reduce future operating costs by installing solar panels on the facility being built by using a local government subsidy for energy-efficient projects. They have NOT yet applied for the subsidy.
Before the project starts, the project manager is describing project risks.
Which statement best describes the risk to the project if the application is NOT successful?
A project manager implemented an approved change to manage a risk. Three (3) months after the implemented change, the project manager learns that the change did NOT produce the desired result, instead producing negative consequences.
How can the project manager avoid this problem on future projects?
During a conversation with a friend, a project manager hears that union action may occur within the next two (2) weeks. The project manager knows that at this stage of the project, any project delays could cause substantial harm to both budget and schedule, and any union action will affect the project team.
Earlier, the probability of a union action was considered minimal. Thus, it was unanticipated. Also, the project manager has worked successfully in the past with the union.
How should the project manager respond to this issue?
While a project manager is preparing the monthly project status report, four (4) new risks are identified. These four (4) risks could affect key milestones.
What should the project manager do before presenting this new risk information?
A small group of users complains during a projectโs user acceptance stage, stating that their expectations are NOT met.
Which action could help avoid this issue on future projects?
A project has the following characteristics:
– A quality management plan is in place.
– The quality management plan states that project deliverables must be reviewed, at a
minimum, 1.5 weeks before the deadline.
– Four (4) deliverables have missed this quality requirement.
Which step should the project manager take?
The project is overseen by a senior project manager. When a new project manager is added to the project, the sponsor asks the new project manager to develop the quality management plan.
How should the new project manager proceed?
A project manager is working with a customer who repeatedly submits requests for new requirements for an existing software product.
The project manager has already provided the completed scope definition for the product’s next version release to stakeholders.
Which step is appropriate for the project manager to take next?
A project manager is working on a software development project.
Two customers are repeatedly submitting new feature requests. The completed scope definition for the product’s next version release has already been provided to stakeholders.
What should the project manager do next?
A recently formed agile team is exhausted after working 12 hour days to fulfil their sprint commitments.
The product owner’s schedule is very busy, and he wishes to delegate some of his tasks to the experienced agile team.
Which task is suitable to delegate to the agile team?
On an agile team, staff members from various organizational departments rotate in and out, to augment the team.
How can the project manager help shield the permanent team members from disruption?
The IT department of a glassware manufacturer enthusiastically approved the agile team’s mid-project demo of quality checking software for assembly line workers. However, the final product was considered unusable because the workers’ gloves are too thick to press the software’s small buttons.
What should the project manager do to avoid this kind of failure in the future?
The IT department of a glassware manufacturer enthusiastically approved the agile team’s mid-project demo of quality-checking software for assembly line workers. However, the final product was considered UNUSABLE because the workersโ gloves are too thick to press the machineryโs small buttons.
An efficient agile team in a large corporation generated ideas and added innovative features to the backlog. After the additional features are tested and complete, the portfolio owner rejects all of them.
What is the most likely reason this situation happened?
The marketing director wants to be first-to-market, to launch a version of a smartphone shopping application for retired people, and has asked the agile team to develop it.
What should the project manager do to begin the development process?
A trend of stories is INCOMPLETE, and this becomes apparent at the end of iterations. Several team members worked on these stories and NO blockers were identified.
How can the agile team resolve the situation?
Two start-up companies have merged, and now more than 100 developers on eight agile teams are working on a common portfolio.
Which agile practice or method can best ensure release coordination between the teams?
Company B is setting up a new agile innovation team with a mission of placing product quality above all other considerations. The initiative comes after a number of high-profile complaints on social media networks about the brand’s diminished quality.
Which option would be most effective to achieve the team’s goals?
The agile team is building a version of a smartphone shopping application suitable for older people. Marketing has not been able to find any volunteer test users fitting the profile.
Which option would be most effective to ensure the best product value is delivered?
A company is losing market share to disruptive competitors with new business models. A cross-functional agile team has been formed to recommend ways to recover market share.
How can the team increase their chance of producing successful recommendations?
Over the past six months, the development cost per story has risen by more than 250% due to a faulty platform which is NO longer supported. The product vision highlights unique features of the platform as a pre-requisite for the product.
What should the project manager do to determine next steps?
A worldwide product launch will likely be delayed by the lengthy analysis needed to assess the impact of new European Union (EU) regulations. Perishable ingredients and factory bookings are at risk of being lost. The executive committee decides to postpone the launch in the EU but maintain launch dates in all non-EU countries.
How should the project manager re-plan the project to support both launches?
The pandemic has caused delays which will make it very difficult to launch the new product on time. Television ads for the launch date are already purchased, so the CEO has asked the project manager to find a way to launch the product even if some minor features are NOT included.
Which measure would be the most effective step toward a successful and timely product launch?
A Canadian start-up company announces to the press its imminent launch in the European Union (EU) and Latin America. Soon afterward, the compliance team recommends delaying the launch by six (6) months to avoid substantial penalties related to a new set of EU regulations.
Which approach could the project manager take to advance the launch project while preparing the compliance measures?
An organizational change program has met with internal resistance, a risk which was previously identified. A logistics manager is particularly affected, due to reduction of the team size and the rate of change driven by an agile planning of the predictive implementation. The manager’s supervisor formally requests the change program to delay implementation for the logistics team.
What should the project manager do next in response to this request?
A hybrid municipal waste management project combines many brief administrative tasks with small-scale public works. An agile track makes good progress on key objectives, but small tasks are accumulating in the backlog. Most tasks can be done in one day but are dependent on unpredictable triggering events.
Which approach would be most effective to clear out these minor tasks faster?
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May 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21 22, 23, 2025
May 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 2025
June 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 2025
June 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 2025
July 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 2025
July 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 2025
Aug 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 2025
Aug 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 2025
Dec 21, 22, 2024 Jan 4 2025
Dec 21, 27, 2024 Jan 4 2025
Jan 25, 26, Feb 1 2025
Jan 25, 31, Feb 1 2025
Feb 22, 23, March 1, 2, 8 2025
Feb 22, 28, Mar 1, 7, 8 2025
Mar 22, 23, Apr 5, 6, 12 2025
Mar 22, Apr 4, 5, 11, 12 2025
April 26, 27, May 3, 4, 10 2025
April 26, May 2, 3, 9, 10 2025
May 31, June 1, 14 2025
May 31, June 13, 14 2025
June 28, 29 July 5 2025
June 28, July 4, 5 2025
July 19, 20, 26, 27, Aug 2 2025
July 19, 25, 26, Aug 1, 2 2025
Jan 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 2025
Jan 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 2025
Jan 31, Feb 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2025
Jan 31, Feb 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2025
Feb 28, Mar 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2025
Feb 28, Mar 3, 4, 5 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2025
April 28, 29, 30, May 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 2025
April 28, 29, 30, May 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 2025
May 27, 28, 29, 30, Jun 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 2025
May 27, 28, 29, 30, Jun 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 2025
June 30, July 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2025
June 30, July 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 10, 11, 2025
July 30, 31, Aug 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 2025
July 30, 31, Aug 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 2025