A project manager is assigned midway through a project. The team members are located in different parts of the country and are unable to meet in person often. During a status review meeting, one of the stakeholders highlighted that they were unaware of the status of the project deliverables. What should the project manager do first?
A. Request the project team include the stakeholder's details and make sure the project status reports are shared with the stakeholder.
B. Schedule a meeting with the stakeholder and include the stakeholder's needs in the project management plan.
C. Review the stakeholder management plan and update the stakeholder register for incorporation in the project management plan.
D. Review the communications management plan and verify whether the stakeholder's needs are captured in the project management plan.
A project manager is working on a project with multiple workstreams. One of the workstreams missed its deadline multiple times. Who should the project manager speak to about this situation to ensure it does not happen again?
A. Workstream leader and project sponsor
B. Workstream leader alone
C. Workstream leader and functional manager
D. Workstream leader and project management office (PMO)
A project manager and project team developing a new product are discussing which work methods and tools to use to build the deliverable. What should the result of this discussion be?
A. An agreed-upon work method and tools that should fit the business need and project constraints
B. A detailed mitigation plan on the risks for each work method and the tools used
C. A consensus that everything will run as anticipated once the tools and work methods are identified
D. A technology roadmap for creating similar deliverables in the future with the same tools
A project manager is working with a team that is new to agile. One of the more influential stakeholders struggles with the nature of agile. The project manager knows that this stakeholder is needed as an advocate and wants to do everything possible to make the stakeholder comfortable with the project.
What should the project manager include in the status report to illustrate the project's performance?
A. Results of the MoSCoW assessment
B. Cost-benefit analysis
C. Return on investment (ROI) analysis
D. Earned value analysis (EVA)
A project manager is appointed to manage an infrastructure project that spans across several countries, including different time zones within a subregion. It is likely that most of the project team members will never meet, but they will have to collaborate to ensure deliverables are met.
What should the project manager do to ensure good collaboration between the remote project team members?
A. Discuss the concerns with the project sponsor and modify the project charter to include more budget for interactions.
B. Plan a communication method and allow the project team members to virtually interact.
C. Create a social media group platform for the team to create a supportive environment.
D. Set the ground rules and identify a contingency plan in the risk register.
A supplier is hired to provide information security services for a project. The supplier has decided not to provide this service any longer since they have not been paid on time. Their services are critical and this decision will affect the outcome of the project.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A. Negotiate the payments with the supplier and remind them of their long-term association
B. Penalize the supplier according to the contract's service level agreement (SLA)
C. Hire another information security supplier and incentivize them for speedy delivery
D. inform the relevant stakeholders of this challenge and seek their support
During project execution, a project team member resigned and a new junior member joined the team. To smooth the transition, the project manager assigned a senior project team member to transfer knowledge and support the junior team member. The project manager subsequently received feedback from the senior team member saying that the junior member submitted a poor-quality deliverable and should be removed from the team. However, the project manager checked that deliverable and found it met quality requirements.
Which technique should the project manager use to resolve this issue?
A. Smooth/accommodate
B. Compromise/reconcile
C. Force/direct
D. Collaborate/problem solve
A project manager is working on a large project in another country and realizes that only a few people from the project team are working on all of the releases. What should the project manager do to prevent this in the future?
A. Document the risk register in the project charter.
B. Speak to the customer and add the issue to the issue log.
C. Review user roles and update the team charter.
D. Involve the product owner to rewrite the user stories.
A project manager has been working with the same group of stakeholders for 3 years using a predictive approach. The stakeholders have invested in many projects and are familiar with the approach. Recently, the organization has strongly encouraged all project managers to adopt an agile approach. This was announced 2 weeks before the project manager planned to kick off a large, complex project with the same group of stakeholders.
What should the project manager do?
A. Use the agile approach in the new project and schedule agile training for those stakeholders who are new to this approach.
B. Continue to use the predictive approach in the new project since it is the approach the stakeholders are familiar with using.
C. Share the pros and cons of adopting an agile approach for the new project only with the team and ask them to decide which approach to use.
D. Share and discuss the pros and cons of adopting agile with the stakeholders and choose the approach they prefer for the new project.
A project team has been together for a long time and has been led by three different project managers. Lately, the performance of one of the team members has been declining and has affected the project delivery. What should the current project manager do to ensure that team performance is improved and sustained?
A. Liaise with the functional managers to replace the team member.
B. Engage with the team member and draw up a development plan.
C. Organize quarterly team-building events.
D. Request that a new team member be added to the team
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