A new team member has joined a project team. During the first sprint, the new team member approached the project manager and requested to implement a new way of testing. The team has been resistant to the proposed change.
What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the new team member to focus only on development and not do the testing.
B. Coach the new team member to conduct the testing the way it has always been done for this project.
C. Schedule a meeting with the new team member to learn about the new method of testing.
D. Request that the new team member do the testing the way it has always been done for this project.
A key stakeholder is refusing to participate in a crucial project stage and disagrees with the project team's approach. This situation is affecting the project team's morale. What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the project team to meet and document why the stakeholder's approach is incorrect.
B. Schedule a meeting with the project team and the key stakeholder as soon as possible to discuss and agree on an approach.
C. Discuss the issue with the project team during a project status meeting and request that they change the approach.
D. Ask the project sponsor to meet with the project team and key stakeholder to discuss the approach.
A critical deliverable for the current iteration is giving the team difficulties. Functionality and quality issues are constantly emerging and delaying iteration progress. The project manager listens to the team's concerns and discovered that the work is not being well coordinated among the team members.
Which two actions should the project manager take to handle this situation? (Choose two.)
A. Develop a team performance report to discuss in the next retrospective meeting.
B. Provide dear instructions on how the work should flow among the team members.
C. Schedule an iteration backlog refinement meeting to understand the issues.
D. Set up one-on-one meetings to provide feedback to the team members.
E. Prioritize the issues, focusing on the ones affecting the iteration goal.
After sending an on-site meeting invitation to seven people for the kick-off meeting of a project, a key stakeholder declines because they will be at another location for the rest of the month. What should the project manager do?
A. Change the kick-off meeting to a virtual meeting so all can attend at the same time.
B. Hold the kick-off meeting with the rest of the stakeholders to avoid a delay in the project.
C. Reschedule the kick-off meeting for the following month so all can attend on-site.
D. Make arrangements for the stakeholder to join the kick-off meeting virtually.
A project manager is leading a team that is geographically dispersed. The team needs to collaborate and finalize the monthly reports. Occasionally, meetings occur during the weekends due to the time differences. Team members have expressed that they do not want to work on the weekends.
What should the project manager do?
A. Take over the activity and deliver the reports whenever work is required on a weekend.
B. Avoid reporting during the months that team members would need to work on the weekend.
C. Remind the team members of their governance responsibilities documented in the team charter.
D. Communicate to the project stakeholders that the reports will be delayed certain months of the year.
A project manager is initiating an agile project for which some external components will be delivered by vendors. One of the vendors, however, will be unable to deliver its component in an incremental, collaborative way. How should the project manager handle this situation?
A. Submit a request to the project sponsor to have the vendor replaced with a vendor who can work following an agile approach.
B. Ask the project management office (PMO) to abandon using an agile approach on the project to accommodate the vendor.
C. Have the vendor deliver the component using another approach, then integrate it into the project without changing the overall agile approach.
D. Ask the product owner to move the component to the product backlog to be addressed after the work using an agile approach has been completed.
Project reviews are done regularly in a project. The team has encountered a critical technical issue that will be discussed in the next project review. Who should the project manager invite to the review for an effective decision on the way forward?
A. Internal team
B. Project team
C. Management team
D. End user team
A project manager is assigned to a project that will improve the business operations for a trading firm. The project team has just completed the discovery phase and needs to make a presentation to the business team in 4 weeks to showcase the feasibility of the solution.
How should the project manager advise the team to proceed?
A. Develop a conceptual framework.
B. Develop a request for proposal (RFP).
C. Develop a prototype.
D. Develop a minimum viable product (MVP).
A client mentioned that in the past 2 months, they have not been invoiced for completed work. The client has communicated that they will release the funds for other activities it the invoices are not sent. What should the project manager do next?
A. Work with the client and agree on a schedule to provide them with the invoices
B. Reach out to the billing team and instruct them to issue the invoices immediately
C. Review the previous billing information and prepare a corrective action plan
D. Communicate and inform the client to go ahead and release the funds
A distributed protect team wants to use the common ground principle to ensure that they have a common understanding of the scope. The team asks the protect lead to set up a workshop. What should the project lead do?
A. Ask the senior members of the development team to elaborate on the scope in detail
B. Invite participants to the workshop with sufficient lead time to prepare
C. Reduce the number of participants to ensure that consensus is reached easier
D. Provide the participants with specific instructions and sot the expectations
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