Give explanation in the right context.

At times over a project life cycle, the team must adopt a few agile ceremonies. The aim is to communicate quicker in times of tight deadlines. Unfortunately, team members are not getting the information needed during the ceremonies.

What is the best option to confirm that the information is received and understood?

Validate with the team that the information was captured and facilitate feedback discussions

Spread out the ceremonies over months between each event to ensure comprehension

Mandate that all project team members update the information radiators after each ceremony

Reduce the number of project team members that attend the ceremonies

A project manager is wrapping up the hardware development phase of a product development project. The project will now transition to the software development phase.

How might the project manager's role change with respect to integration management?

Act as a servant leader by determining the relative size of the story points of the items in the product backlog

Delegate the control of the detailed project work planning and product delivery to the project team members

Ensure that the project team members each have specific tasks assigned to them and recorded in a Gantt chart

Strengthen the change management controls to ensure that scoop creep is minimized or entirely eliminated

You are conducting a sprint retrospective in accordance with the communications management plan. The development team members want to try pair programming as they believe it will improve productivity by reducing rework. Even though you are very skeptical, you agree to implement the practice as you want to empower the team to be a self-managing unit.

What should you do next?

During the upcoming sprint, measure velocity and, if it decreases, discontinue pair programming and reprimand the team members

Invite the project sponsor and other key stakeholders to demonstrate the increased collaboration between the project team members

Submit a change request to update the communications management plan with the new agile practice of pair programming

At the end of the upcoming sprint, revise the burndown chart, evaluate the productivity, and update the lessons learned register

A project manager is leading a daily standup meeting with a scrum team as part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process. A developer raises an impediment stating that he is struggling with the software code necessary to authenticate users on the sign-in page. The developer indicates that the impediment could result in a schedule delay to the current sprint.

What is the project manager's best course of action?

Write the software code for the developer since it is the project manager's responsibility to remove impediments

Submit a change request to update the schedule baseline to reflect the delay caused by the impediment

Move the user authentication feature back into the project backlog and ask the product owner to reprioritize it

Recommend that the scrum team members use swarming as a technique to clear the impediment

Collecting requirements for the project and creating the WBS has been a daunting task because stakeholders' needs are vague and are only expressed in the most general terms due to the nature of the project. As a result of this uncertainty, the project manager is concerned about excessive changes, wasted work, and rework anticipated during project execution.

What is the project manager's best course of action?

Develop a project scope statement and decompose it down to the work package level as part of initial project planning

Request that the project team use an iterative and incremental approach to product development with short feedback loops

Implement a robust change control system to only allow for the most important changes to be incorporated into the product

Generate an activity list from what is currently known and use the Kanban board to break the activities down to their tasks

A project manager is implementing the requirements management plan for a software upgrade project that will incorporate some agile elements. The project manager needs to quickly define cross-functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences to build a consensus among the relevant stakeholders.

What is the project manager's best course of action?

Give a questionnaire and send it out to all of the stakeholders to determine the project requirements

Conduct an in-person interview with each of the relevant stakeholders to determine their needs

Facilitate a requirements workshop with all of the relevant stakeholders to develop user stories

Perform a job shadowing exercise with the intended end-users of the existing software

The organizations leadership wants projects to include more agile methodologies.

Before mandating any agile methods to be used in a project, what should be done first?

Pause current projects to align them to the new agile cadence

Ask employees to vote on who wants to take part in agile projects

Assess organizational culture and readiness for the transformation

Provide agile training to those who will be part of the pilot project team

You are establishing the relative priorities of individual risks identified in the project.

Which of the following tasks is the least likely to impact this prioritization?

Reviewing the assumption log

Examining the risk register

Researching the stakeholder register

Creating the risk report

Team members are frequently changing during the long timeline of a multi-phase project. The project manager is questioning whether to include agile practices to accommodate the changes.

What should the project manager do prior to moving to a hybrid approach?

Ensure project finances are secured for the next project phase

Reduce the team size to nine people, plus or minus two

Target a smaller project as a proof of concept to test the feasibility

Evaluate the benefits of incorporating agile practices

Midway into project execution, new cybersecurity laws take an immediate effect and require audits of the system. The project has a well thought out project management plan. The audits may come at any time throughout the system?s development.

What is the best way for the project manager and team to address the risk of audits disrupting the project plans?

Handle the audits as an unplanned spike

Reschedule the audits to the end of the project

Request that the sponsor removes the audits

Inform stakeholders that the project will miss its objectives

A plan-driven project has many deliverables planned to be released at the end of the phase. The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are completed as expected.

Which agile practices can the project manager recommend to the team to make certain that the deliverables are completed and delivered as expected?

Definition of ready and iteration reviews

User stories and confidence votes

Definition of done and demonstrations

Backlog refinement and retrospectives

12. A project manager facilitates a discussion with the team about experimenting with some agile practices in their plan-driven project. A suggestion of incorporating daily standups is on the table. The team members, however, are unsure of what is expected of them.

What can the project manager suggest the project team members do prior to the daily standup?

Make sure their work progress is reflected in the burndown chart

Submit the necessary progress reports to the product owner

Estimate work items that will be developed after the daily standup

Resolve any defects that have been found in the previous day