During a retrospective review, project team members say they are not completing tasks during the iterations due to interruptions and requests for help from other teams. As a team facilitator, what should the project manager do to avoid this?
A project manager has been assigned to a new project. The project schedule is extremely short. During an iteration review meeting, the key stakeholder mentions that they are experiencing some inefficiencies in their work processes. What should the project manager do?
A struggling company is executing a critical project. However, due to external environmental changes, there is not enough funding to complete the project. What should the project manager do first?
A project team member identified a procurement risk and sent an email to the project sponsor highlighting the risk. The sponsor forwarded the email to the project manager asking for further details. After speaking with the sponsor, the project manager decided to take preventive action. What document should the project manager review with their team?
A project is halfway through its execution phase. The quality specifications for the project deliverables are formally accepted. However, a key stakeholder is dissatisfied, stating that the deliverables do not meet the quality specifications. What should the project manager do in this situation?
A client has asked the project manager for the program status report. The project manager sent the report and then realizes that they accidentally included another manager from the client’s organization on the email. Which approach should the project manager take?
The project manager has observed that two team members have been arguing with each other openly at meetings. To push their ideas through, each team member individually spoke with the sponsor directly and made decisions without informing the project manager or other team members. What two actions should the project manager take?
A project manager is working on a software development project. A team member complains that since the tasks are very simple, there is no reason to perform quality control. The project manager understands that removing the quality management plan from the project will also help to save money, which is important to the customer. What should the project manager do?
A project team is working on the design of a solution for a complex project. Due to a lack of clarity of the customer’s requirements, daily meetings were agreed upon between the team and the customer. There are a few external contractors in the project who do not agree with this idea as they feel it is a waste of time. What should the project manager do?
A project manager works with a global virtual team. The team is facing difficulty in communicating with each other and often misses important messages. This difficulty leads to missed deadlines. What should the project manager do to enhance project team effectiveness?
A company is working on a project to develop an integration of their existing systems. There are known issues in production. What should the project manager do?
One of the key stakeholders on the project team reaches out with an additional requirement that may impact the overall schedule. A discussion with another stakeholder suggests that this might just be a small task. What should the project manager do?
A project engineer in country A is complaining about the sample received from the supplier in country B because the sample is not the correct length. During a telephone conference, the supplier checked the drawings and insisted that the measurement was accurate. What should the project manager do next?
A project in the execution phase is behind schedule and is missing some materials. The contractor submits an offer to supply the missing materials and reimburse the cost since the internal procurement process will cause more delay. The project manager doesn’t agree with the costs submitted by the contractor for the missing materials. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager who takes over halfway through a project determines that the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.65. A detailed audit identifies that the project cost was analogously estimated, and the audit team thinks that something was missing in the way the estimates were done. What should have been done to avoid this problem?
During the early phase of a project, the requirements documentation was not approved. It was identified that the leader of a user party was not included in any of the requirements collection communications. Which of the documents was likely missed or outdated?
A project team member identified a defect in the initial solution design for a project. The stakeholders are not sure whether to deploy the system or not. What should the project manager do?
A project manager noticed that a team member has been struggling with some tasks, which may ultimately impact the completion date. Team morale is low because they will get the expected bonus if they do not finish on time. What should the project manager do?
A major national company known for quality products has just selected a small subcontracting firm to assist with a project. The project manager from the subcontracting firm is meeting with the project team to ensure that the project is delivered according to the customer’s standards. In order to ensure this, what should the project manager define and document?
During the third iteration of a project, the main sponsor retired from the company, and a new sponsor was appointed. The new sponsor is not familiar with the agile approach for project delivery, which leads them to request more control over the project team. What should the project manager do?
A key stakeholder for a construction project has been spending a lot of time at the site and interrupting the team’s efforts while carrying out their daily work. How should the project manager handle this issue?
A project presently in the testing stage is nearing the closing phase, which will transition the complete project to the company’s operations support team. However, many new members have just been added to the operations support team who are not familiar with the project and the project’s acceptance is now at risk. What should the project manager do to mitigate this transition risk?
A client has asked the project manager for the program status report. The project manager send the report and then realizes that they accidentally included another manager from the client’s organization on the email. Which approach should the project manager do?
A senior project manager has included a junior project manager as part of the project team. During a coaching session, the junior project manager asks the senior project manager how to be efficient and reduce rework. What should the senior project manager respond?
A project manager is managing a project with a hybrid approach and has requested a senior team member to perform a quantitative risk analysis. The team member responds that they do not have the knowledge to perform such an analysis. What should the project manager do?
A project manager has team members around the world in many different time zones. Project work frequently stalls because people in one office need to wait until another office is awake to have questions answere What should the project manager have done to avoid this?
A company has transitioned to hybrid approach instead of predictive approach. The distributed project team’s agile knowledge is not consistent and varies from one team member to another. The project manager feels like this new methodology will impact the timely delivery of the project. What should the project manager do?
A project sponsor asked the product owner to deliver a functionality that provides highest return on investment (ROI) asap. Which artifact should the project lead use to track benefits?
A project manager is part of a team that is launching a series of features to comply with a new regulation. The team has only 6 weeks to release the features to the legacy applications. During the standup meeting, a software engineer indicated that the development of an important feature is on hold until the assigned designer completes a specific task. This delay is a serious road block to meeting the release date. What should the project manager do?
An agile team is working on a two-week sprint to deliver business value. About one week after the sprint starts, the product owner realizes that a regulatory compliance requirement was missed. The product owner reminds the team that this requirement must be completed in the current sprint or the organization will face a penalty. What should the project manager do to mitigate this risk?
A project team is struggling to understand key technical requirements, as information was not initially provided by the customer, although it is critical for the current iteration to clarify how tasks need to be carried out. How should the project manager approach this situation?
A project manager is working on an agile project. The organization decided to implement the scrum framework. The project manager organized a workshop to explain the differences between traditional project artifacts and the scrum approach. The most frequent question raised is what artifact will replace the project schedule. What should be the project manager’s response?
An agile project is running its 5th iteration out of 10. After the last retrospective, the team members realize that they had to work extra hours to deliver the committed work. What should the project lead do?
At the start of a project, the sponsor declares that demonstrating benefits from the product will be extremely important. The project sponsor calls a meeting with the project manager and the project leadership team to discuss the best approach because the project has a high degree of uncertainty and many changes are expected. What should the project propose?
A project sponsor plans to fund the development of a software that has 30 features to be used in 10 different countries. The team feels overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done. What should the project manager do?
In a project that will deliver a new product using new technology, the project team frequently discusses difficulties that may arise and possible strategies to address them. One team member sets up a meeting with the project manager to discuss their list of challenges and presents an extensive list of items that require continuous attention. How should the project manager use this event to maximize the benefits to the stakeholders?
Several components of an expensive manufacturing project have been returned by the customer. The customer is complaining that the quality of the components is poor and is concerned that, as a result, their products will be returned due to quality issues. The project manager is certain that quality has been maintained. What should the project manager communicate with the customer to help assure them that the project has produced quality products?
On your project you handle known risks by performing the Plan Risk Responses process.
Which of the following would you use when you encounter unknown risks?
During an inspection, the production phase was stopped because the inspector claimed that regulatory labels were missing. What should the project manager do?
Several components of an expensive manufacturing project have been returned by the customer. The customer is complaining that the quality of the components is poor and is concerned that, as a result, their products will be returned due to quality issues. The project manager is certain that quality has been maintaine What should the project manager communicate with the customer to help assure them that the project has produced quality products?
A company has decided to initiate a project to eliminate a sales channel that has been unprofitable for the past three years. Some members of the project team are pessimistic about the project. How should the project manager do in this situation?
During a project, the project manager’s immediate director is communicating directly with the client to approve changes without the project manager’s knowledge. This is causing confusion in the project team where the scope is changing in the backgroun As a team facilitator, what should the project manager do to avoid this?
A project manager is leading a large-scale project that involves 70 stakeholders. The project manager has heard various comments and expectations from the customers, some of which are contradictory. Consequently, some requirements are not clear. What should the project manager do to build consensus regarding the requirements?
A project manager is working on a software developmentcontract. The project is halfway through a3-yearcontractwhen thereisachangein thepolitical landscape and 20% of the stakeholders are replaced. Almost immediately decisions become delayed, invoices go unpaid, and meetings become unmanageable.
What tool would assist the project manager to better understand the new project landscape?
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?
You are performing the Plan Risk Responses process for your manufacturing project when encounter a critical risk that may have a high impact on the project completion. All the following are valid responses, except?
As a supplier, who was tasked with providing an important component for a project, is unable to deliver the materials due to a large-scale labor problem. What document should the project manager use to update the details and communicate to relevant stakeholders?
A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses; the project manager will take over the project once the supplier has been source What should the project manager do before the project starts?
In a complex project with several subcontractors, one subcontractor reports a likely delay in the schedule. This could affect the other subcontractors and impact their ability to deliver on time. What should the project manager do first?
You are working on a web development project. You looked on the internet for some off-the-shelf software to support the project. Your internet search may lead to better products but which of the following problems are associated with those products?