A project manager is leading a meeting with key stakeholders, the project sponsor and the product owner to define the features that will be released after the next iteration. The purpose of the meeting is to review the product backlog prioritization, considering that during the past iteration some deliverables were not completed.
Which two items should be taken into account first to review and update the product backlog priorities during the meeting? (Choose two)
A. Complexity and the cost of development
B. Industry trends and the technical approach
C. Cost of delaying some features against business value
D. Reusing components from another product
E. Length of time each feature has been on the backlog
The project manager started a new project and must ensure that the team members and stakeholders are adequately trained. After an interview with the team, the project manager discovers that all resources have experience in different agile methodologies.
What should the project manager do?
A. Make sure the project team is aware of all agile techniques
B. Skip the training because the team already understands agile
C. Ensure the team has a common understanding of agile
D. Teach one agile methodology fully and completely
A project manager joins a team that is providing a customized enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a client. A potential design problem is identified by the development team. After reviewing this issue with the project owner and team members, all agreed to revise the design to avoid a system defect when deployed. The design is already approved.
What should be the project manager's next steps?
A. Conduct a proof of concept to make sure there are no problems in the revised design
B. Amend the design specifications and pass them to the development team for reprogramming
C. Make a change request and get format approval from the projeci owner
D. Inform the client of the problem and follow the change request process
A team member misses a project meeting without it being approved and has been penalized as defined in the ground rules. This team member, as well as other team members, insist that it is the first time they have seen this rule regarding the project and they do not agree with the penalty.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
A. Ensured the team charter was developed by the team members
B. Ensured the team members are fully supportive of all decisions.
C. Distributed the project charter to all team members.
D. Used a charismatic leadership style
A project manager is leading a project with several stakeholders in other functional areas of the company. One of these stakeholders has just been promoted to lead another functional area, and remains a stakeholder for this project. What should the project manager have the project team update to ensure proper communications to stakeholders?
A. Project management plan
B. Stakeholder engagement plan
C. Stakeholder register
D. Communications management plan
A group has been working together for one month. During daily meetings a team member continues to express issues in completing their tasks. What should the project manager do?
A. Wait for the team to identify and solve the problem independently.
B. Move the team member to another task that is more skill appropriate
C. Have a confidential discussion with the team member to identify the root cause
D. Start a discussion with all team members to help resolve the issues
In a software development project, the product owner and development team agree on a sprint backlog. The highest priority in the backlog is to build a payment module. The team worked on the module during the first half of the sprint, but now two developers want to spend the rest of the sprint focusing on refactoring another feature that might create issues in the future.
What should the project manager do?
A. Let the developers focus on the refactoring work and discuss it in the retrospective
B. Restate to the developers the importance of focusing and meeting the sprint goal.
C. Praise the developers for their proactivity and focus on quality.
D. Escalate the issue to the developers' functional managers
A project manager has received an updated earned value analysis report. The following are the key findings from the report:
Budget at completion = US$1 million Earned value = US$0,7 million Actual cost = US$0,75 million Cost performance index = 0,933
Based on this information, what should the project manager conclude about project performance?
A. The project will be completed exactly as planned
B. The project will be easier to complete than planned
C. The project will be difficult to complete as planned.
D. The project will not be completed as planned
A company is initiating a project to enhance one of its existing products. All of its products are developed internally. What should the project manager do?
A. Ensure the stakeholder engagement plan is accurate and properly documented.
B. Review the lessons learned from the previous project
C. Identify the risk of implementing the new solution and evaluate the impact on the project.
D. Create a lessons learned document for the initiation phase
In a newly formed project team, one experienced team member is overwhelmed by the complexity of the tasks and is not happy with the project team. What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the team member to enter this potential schedule delay in the risk register.
B. Explain that the tasks are unavoidable and ask the team member to find a solution to overcome the challenges
C. Actively listen to the team member and identify ways to support their needs in completing the tasks.
D. Set up team-building activities with the project team members to reduce tension
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