Stakeholders in some industries prefer to deal with programmers and system analysts directly, bypassing project managers. This complicates managing resources on projects. How should a project manager solve this issue?
A. Propose implementing a new project management information system (PMIS).
B. Request a meeting with senior management to escalate the situation
C. Promote adoption of the communications management plan with the project team.
D. Host a team-building event to develop team cohesion and improve communication
A project manager works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines. What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?
A. Implement team colocation to improve communication.
B. Identify the root cause of communication issues
C. Initiate daily communication of project progress
D. Schedule a communications control board meeting
A technical manager newly appointed by the client, visits the project site to verify the project deliverables. The technical manager feels that the project manager has not been providing enough information. What should the project manager do first to resolve this situation?
A. Update the issue log and escalate to the project sponsor
B. Identify the lack of information as a risk and update the risk register
C. Schedule more frequent meetings with the technical manager.
D. Review and update the stakeholder engagement plan
A senior business stakeholder with many years of experience is pressuring an agile team to deliver most of the promised functionality to the customer 18 months in the future as opposed to multiple, incremental deliveries over the course of the 18 months.
What should the project lead do next?
A. Schedule meetings with the customer to determine their ability to support multiple incremental deliveries
B. Work with the agile team to schedule the incremental deliveries to enable delivery of business value sooner to the customer.
C. Work with the stakeholder to understand what the concerns are while at the same time conveying the benefits of incremental deliveries
D. Provide details of the concern to the agile team and adjust their goals and release plans to conform to the stakeholder's request.
A project manager receives a voicemail from a business analyst on the project team. The business analyst indicates that an internal stakeholder is upset that they were not included before the project began. The stakeholder is asking for an addition to the requirements traceability matrix.
What should the project manager do to improve the stakeholder relationship?
A. Consult the project scope document to make sure the addition is in scope.
B. Update the stakeholder engagement plan to ensure the stakeholder is included in the project stakeholder list
C. Initiate a project change request so the change control board (CCB) can decide if it is in scope.
D. Engage the stakeholder to solicit more information before responding to the request
A project manager just started managing agile projects. The project manager realizes that due to the lack of a clear definition of project objectives and definition of done (DoD), their colleague's projects have had many difficulties. Sponsors keep asking for more features and the projects have yet to be completed.
What should the project manager do to avoid these issues?
A. Arrange meetings to ensure every necessary task to complete the project is included in the project management plan
B. Convince the project sponsor to incorporate quality experts so the product can be tested and accepted as completed.
C. Convince the product owner to approach the team and look for options to find a solution to the problem
D. Schedule meetings with key stakeholders to build the agile project charter and set clear expectations for the project
The project team follows a hybrid framework for its delivery. During the execution of a project, the team learns of a new compliance requirement that has to be delivered before any other requirements. How should the project manager address this situation?
A. Ask the team to include the compliance requirement in the current sprint and deliver it.
B. Add the new compliance requirement to the backlog as the technical team does not have any capacity.
C. Include the compliance lead in the stakeholders list and wait for the next status meeting
D. Collaborate with the compliance team member to review and prioritize the requirement's delivery
A project manager is m the middle of a project when one of the key project team members needs to take an unexpected and prolonged leave of absence. The project is ahead of schedule and running under budget. Which two actions should the project manager take initially to resolve this problem? (Choose two)
A. Check the risk register for a prepared response to a resource being suddenly unavailable.
B. Check if the team member's activities are sufficiently documented to facilitate handover
C. Check the project's responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) to determine which activities will be affected
D. Reassign responsibilities across the remaining members using the available float for training.
E. Obtain the project sponsors support to replace the team member on leave
The project manager just started leading a project team from which the previous project manager resigned. After a quick evaluation of the project, it is apparent that team morale is low due to continuous disagreement about how to complete tasks. Tasks are taking longer than forecasted and the project is off schedule.
What should the project manager do?
A. Conduct a meeting with the project team to discuss and address the sources of disagreement
B. Inform the stakeholders that the project will be delayed due to previous team management
C. Crash the project timeline to ensure the project is back on schedule
D. Issue a change request to extend the project schedule based on identified delays
The project team finds that the latest delivery from a vendor is missing a critical component, which will likely delay the project in split of corrective measures. What should the project manager do to communicate this message?
A. Ask the vendor to identify the stakeholders affected, create an action plan and determine an implementation date
B. Draft a warning letter to the vendor ask internal stakeholders to comment, and solicit stakeholder support to hold the vendor accountable
C. Identify the worst-case scenario, put it into the project risk register, share the register with all project stakeholders, and raise an alert.
D. Contact department managers who are identified as stakeholders, solicit concern, and provide updates to the situation
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