An agile team is making infrastructure changes to the human resources (HR) application system. Conflicting requirements are being submitted by various stakeholders. What should the project manager do to help move the project forward?
A. Review documents provided by other teams, such as lessons learned and the risk matrix.
B. Attend the Scrum of Scrums to identify roadblocks and manage dependencies.
C. Study the technology to assist the team in decision-making if progress slows.
D. Encourage the stakeholders to collaborate by facilitating meetings and sharing knowledge.
A company has made multiple staff and operational changes over the last several years, significantly improving the company culture. A project manager was recently assigned to report to a new project supervisor. The project manager notices the supervisor's style of leadership is about getting the job done in the shortest possible time regardless of operational and worker impacts. This is causing some complaints from workers.
How should the project manager handle this situation?
A. Discuss the company culture with the supervisor to clarify expectations.
B. Review the overall organizational culture of the company again.
C. Request that the new supervisor be assigned to another project.
D. Explain to the workers that they need to listen to the supervisor.
The portfolio management office wants to cut costs by suspending some ongoing projects that do not directly support the organizational strategy. The project manager has invested too many resources into one of the projects to be suspended, but the portfolio management office has not backed down on their plan.
What should the project manager do to continue the project?
A. Meet with the project team and revise the project goals.
B. Update the project charter to make it align with organizational strategy.
C. Demonstrate the project alignment to the organizational strategy.
D. Escalate the issue with the project sponsor to request support.
A project manager is assigned to a technical research project. The project team has already been assigned, and the main subject matter expert (SME) sends the project manager a list of the technical skills required for the execution of this project.
What should the project manager do next?
A. Send the list to the project team and ask them to get training on the required skills.
B. Ask the functional manager to review the resource pool and recommend the right individuals to join the team.
C. Discuss the list with the project sponsor to confirm that the resources have the required skills.
D. Meet with the project team to understand their skills and identify potential gaps and training requirements.
A project manager is assigned to a strategic communication project that involves subject matter experts (SMEs), interns, and new recruits. The project manager discovers that the project is not gaining much traction due to knowledge gaps from the interns. The budget for training is exhausted and the project needs to be delivered without delay.
Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose two)
A. Identify the sources and specifics of the knowledge gap from the interns and new recruits.
B. Hire more SMEs and inform the human resources manager to lay off the nonperforming interns and new recruits.
C. Initiate a project change request for additional budget to train the interns and new recruits.
D. Ignore the issues with the project and try to deliver the project successfully without asking for training funds.
E. Put the interns and new recruits into groups and assign a SME as a mentor.
A new relevant project stakeholder suggested a change to some of the project parameters midway through execution. What should the project manager do next?
A. Accept the change and use contingency funds to implement this change with minimal schedule impacts
B. Reject the change because it is contrary to what was agreed to during earlier phases of the project
C. Transfer the change to the steering committee for them to evaluate and decide the appropriate next steps
D. Evaluate the proposed change with integrated change controls and discuss the change with the project sponsor
An organization in a regulated industry has decided to switch from a predictive to an agile delivery approach. It has been decided that the ongoing projects will adopt Scrum, and the project manager is still accountable for the project outcomes. During the fourth sprint demo, the customer notices that a feature is not compliant with the regulations.
What should the project manager do?
A. Have the team consult with the compliance officer to update the definition of done (DoD) for the user stories in the past sprint.
B. Have the product owner consult with the change control board (CCB) to have the necessary compliance requirements implemented.
C. Have the scrum master organize a weekly meeting with the compliance officer, the product owner, and the project team.
D. Have the product owner review the user stories in the product backlog with the compliance officer on a regular basis to identify any gaps.
A project manager is leading a product development project that requires high involvement from several stakeholders. What should the project manager do to ensure this involvement?
A. Evaluate the engagement needs of stakeholders.
B. Distribute weekly status emails to stakeholders.
C. Engage the sponsor on the behavior of stakeholders.
D. Conduct weekly update meetings with stakeholders.
A project manager has just taken over a project that is halfway through its schedule. In a brief meeting with the client's key project team, the project manager receives several requests from a specific client team member who was not at the project team meeting. The requests for information seem to be for trivial information that was previously submitted in project documents.
What should the project manager do first?
A. Send an email to the client team member explaining that they have the information already.
B. Review the stakeholder register to gain insight into the expectations of that team member.
C. Inform the client project manager that they are sending too many trivial requests.
D. Update the project risk register to include potential delays in answering these requests.
A project in aerospace design has run into a substantial technical issue, and the project team is uncertain on how to proceed. With whom should the project manager call a meeting to discuss the issue?
A. Project stakeholders and the team
B. External subject matter experts (SMEs) and the team
C. Project sponsor and the team
D. Project sponsor and the external SMEs
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