PMP – Executing

A project manager for an IT implementation is leveraging multiple IT resources. The functional manager of a technical specialist on the project team has pulled the specialist away from the project to deal with a critical customer issue. This delays meeting the project’s scheduled milestone.

What should the project manager do first?

A project manager notices that a team member seems more unhappy after every team meeting. After investigating the situation, the project manager finds out that the team member is not making progress on a key activity, which impacts the critical path. The team member also feels their role on the team is not correct.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager observes that team members are in a low mood after demos. Feedback from stakeholders is constantly causing concern for the team. As a result, the team members rush through product demos, and the interaction between the team and stakeholders is minimal.

Which action should the project manager take?

A startup has proliferated, and four agile teams are now working on related products. All teams have begun to experience impediments and gaps related to work in other teams.

How should the project manager address the problem?

The project manager works on multiple projects. One project has new team members and is in the initial stages. The other projects are in various execution stages for the next few weeks.

How can the project manager develop the new team over the next few weeks?

A new project manager must deliver a high-stakes agile project. The vendor collaborating with the team is in another country. Though this vendor has delivered acceptable quality work on time in the past, they are currently behind schedule. The team explained to the project manager that their attempts to get the vendor back on schedule had failed. They have sent emails and made phone calls, but the vendor only gives vague, noncommittal responses. The project sponsor has collaborated with this vendor previously and is aware that this vendor is essential to the success of the project a vital partner of the business.

Which action should the project manager take/

A project team has an after-hours get-together. One of the team members who was recently hired and new to the team did not receive an invitation to the get-together. At the next few standup session, the new employee is visibly upset and does not participate much during the sessions.
How should the project manager address this situation?

During a periodic review with stakeholders, the project sponsor asks how the project will measure satisfactory completion of the deliverables and how those measurements are applied.
Where can the project manager find this information?

A project team often asks questions about the rationale for their work and how the client perceives their progress and deliverables. What should the project manager do to build trust and engage the team?

A project manager for an important agile project has a key stakeholder who was actively involved at the beginning of the project. Early in the project, the stakeholder received a promotion and significantly reduced their participation. Nearing the end of the project, the stakeholder did not accept a deliverable, resulting in significant rework that threatened the project deadline.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

A project manager went on a vacation and returned to find discord in the project. According to two stakeholders, stakeholder M is causing problems. Every day for the last two weeks, that stakeholder emailed the team, checking progress and giving instructions. The team ignored the emails and continued working, but the other stakeholders were concerned about the stakeholder’s behavior.

What should the project manager do?

The agile team is composed of highly skilled product design engineers. Their reputation for quality and speed has earned them new duties in concept development for new products, but team output in this new role has slowed instead of increasing steeply compared to their design work.

Which two measures are most effective to improve team productivity in this case?

(Choose two)

A project team has established an unofficial online communications platform to enhance communication.

The project manager was unaware that this platform existed until recently, after learning that its use has facilitated some activity that stakeholders find concerning.

Which action should the project manager take?

The project team is small, and the team members have known each other for a long time. The team’s project is in the execution phase. Recently, a team member told the new project manager that another team member had been complaining about how the project was being managed.

How should the new project manager respond?

During the project’s execution, a key team member is concerned with the overall product approach documented in the project management plan. During a weekly status meeting, the member surprises the project manager with negative comments

How should the project manager address the team members’ concerns?

A project manager and team have worked together in a predictive project management environment for five years. The organization has decided to implement agile project management and trains the project manager on this approach. The team begins their next project using agile, but after five sprints the team still is dependent on the project manager to make decisions related to the project.
How can the project manager help the team?

A project is in the execution phase when the project manager finds that information has not been sent to stakeholders in the level of detail they expected.
What is the most likely consequence of poor stakeholder communication during a project’s execution phase?

Which of the following approaches should a team lead take to have a highly motivated and high-performing project team? (Choose three)

A project manager leading an agile project wants to motivate the project team to improve performance.

How should the project manager accomplish this?

A well–liked manager is reassigned to a different project. The team has expressed disapproval regarding the reassignment.

An agile team member solved a problem that had blocked work for several weeks. After the release of the software, it appears that the solution caused the function to fail. The quality director demands an explanation.

In which two ways should the project manager react?

(Choose two)

Project team members are busier than usual. They indicate they do not have the time to update the lessons learned register because of other project responsibilities.

How should the project manager respond?

A governmental agency has been added as a key stakeholder on a complex project due to multiple regulatory changes. The project manager wants to develop an understanding of these new stakeholders and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.

What should the project manager do?

Project Alpha is experiencing schedule performance issues. After assessing the issues, the project manager determines that project resources have low levels of expertise.

Specifically, a few of the senior-level resources perform irrelevant work, and some experienced resources take too long to complete tasks.

The project manager needs to enhance team performance.

Which action should the project manager take?

You are managing a project with team members from several countries. Some are based in United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, United States and Canada. You overheard a discussion among two of the team members with one team member say that people in the UK and Australia drive on the wrong side of the road. This statement by a team member reflects?

A project manager notices schedule performance issues due to the expertise levels of project resources. Some experienced resources check unnecessary details, and some junior-level resources take a long time to complete tasks. What should the project manager do to help the team enhance their performance?

A project manager with a directive behavioral orientation leads a virtual team of software developers. The project manager wants to build a high-performing team that is motivated and productive. The team is working on a complex project with a tight deadline.
How should the project manager lead this team?

A project team is learning how to leverage agile methods in their projects. While meeting performance goals, the team is losing motivation and is visibly bored during the daily standups, so much so that it is becoming a distraction.

What could be done in this scenario?

A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, some team members have not had the appropriate agile training.

How should the project manager respond to the lack of agile training?

During a challenging stakeholder meeting, one stakeholder indicated that they would reject all iterations deliverables.

What should the project manager do?

A frustrated agile team member approaches the project manager to complain that a senior team member is claiming all “interesting” backlog items and leaving a tedious set of activities for everyone else.

How should the project manager address the complaint?

The project manager with limited experience manages a globally distributed team. Team members are appointed from different countries and speak different native languages. To successfully manage his project, the project manager needs cultural sensitivity.

What of the following actions should the project manager not take?

A long-standing key team member on a virtual team has been unmotivated for weeks after the death of a family member. Because of this, several project activities are behind schedule, impacting the project’s critical path.

How should the project manager handle the situation?

At the end of the requirements phase of a project, one stakeholder wants to cancel the project while another stakeholder to continue the project. Which of the following does not reflect the up-to-date view of conflict?

A project manager leads a complex infrastructure project vital for the company’s growth. During the project’s initial stages, the project manager identifies a highly influential stakeholder resistant to the project. This stakeholder’s support is crucial for the project’s success, but they have expressed concerns and reservations. How should the project manager handle this situation?

The project manager is having difficulties persuading stakeholders to adopt new technology.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this resistance?

A project manager notices that a new virtual team member does not respond to emails coherently and does not speak up in team discussions.

What should the project manager do?

The project team works virtually because of a recent natural disaster. Several activities were delayed because a project team member has not worked during the past week. This delay impacts the critical path.

How should the project manager respond to this problem?

Three project teams are working on parts of a single project. The parts are highly dependent on each other. The team lead indicates that this might create conflicts in the outputs from the three teams when combined.

What guidance should the project manager offer to the team lead?

A team member is asked to move to another project during the middle of the technical project. The team believes this is an unwise move and expresses concern.

Which action will help to resolve the issue?

An unresolved conflict between a member of the third-party vendor’s team and a member of the project team is causing a disruption.

The issue is escalated to the project manager.

What is the first thing the project manager should do?

A project manager joins the project team, replacing a manager who left. During initial meetings, the project manager realizes that the team members have differing opinions addressing technical decisions. Team members do not respect each other’s ideas, and the environment has become counterproductive. However, now, with the new manager’s leadership, the team has begun to communicate more effectively and develop processes and procedures for working together.

In what phase of development is the team in now?

You are reviewing the various organizational motivational theories, and you are surprised as to what you see in the Expectancy Theory. Which of the following is not part of this motivational style?

An expert resource avoids assignments that include working with a foreign contractor. How should the project manager resolve the situation?

After success in a particularly challenging project phase, a project manager reassigned a high-performing team member to a more strategic task.

This is an example of what?

A project manager is having difficulty managing stakeholders because the stakeholder register does not distinguish how aware of the project they need to be in order for the project to be successful.

What should the project manager do?

The project team is comprised of local and virtual team members for a project. To manage scheduling priority conflicts among project team members, the project manager schedules a video conference call.

Which conflict resolution technique does this statement demonstrate?

A cross-functional team on a critical project reports a delay in developing a prototype. The project manager believes that the cause is a need for more knowledge in a specific, required area on the team.

How can the project manager prevent the situation on future projects? (Choose three)

The atmosphere is tense in the sprint planning review. The agile team members are visibly unhappy – one kicks the chair and shouts at the product owner. “That just doesn’t make sense”.

Which two actions should the project manager take in this situation? (Choose two)

A project utilizes a third-party contractor.

A member of the contractor’s team raises an issue with a member of the project team. The two individuals are not able to work out a solution.

The project manager is aware of the disagreement.

Which type of communication should the project manager use first when contacting the vendor about this issue?

A project manager is working on a small project critical for a more significant program milestone. A new resource was assigned to replace a key resource who had to leave the project. Unfortunately, an outside stakeholder claims that the person who assigned the new resource sent their weakest team member.

How should the project manager approach this?

You currently have 8 team members and four stakeholders including yourself working on your project. You add there more team members and one more stakeholder. How many additional communication channels did you add?

A project manager is committed to the success of a multinational project with tight deadlines. A new team member is continually late or misses status meetings. In a one-on-one with the project manager, the team member believes working on deliverables is more important than attending status meetings.
What should the project manager do?

A project is researching and exploring a new biomedical technology. The external market conditions are complex and highly regulated. While the team has worked in similar conditions before, the timeline for delivery is aggressive.

How should the project manager motivate this team?

A project manager leads a team that is developing a new software product. The deadline for the product launch is approaching, but the team is significantly behind schedule. The project manager has tried to motivate the team and help them catch up, but they have been unwilling and unsuccessful.
What should the project manager do first?

A global organization sponsors a project that involves six different companies. When the project is partially complete, the project manager learns that one stakeholder is ill and needs to decrease their level of involvement.

What should the project manager do?

Several new members are added to an ongoing project. Although all the original team members receive basic training on the specifics of the business operation that the project supports, the new team members do not have the same basic understanding. This lack of understanding results in decreased productivity.

How should the project manager respond to this issue?

The project manager, experienced in predictive methods, is taking on an agile project for the first time. To help make a successful transition, the project manager lists situations that may arise as a servant leader.

Which three situations would be on this list? (Choose three)

To augment the team, an agile team includes staff members from various organizational departments who rotate in and out.

How can the project manager help shield the permanent team members from disruption?

An efficient, empowered agile innovation team does not understand why required approvals from the legal department are allowed to delay their progress. Eventually, the team confronts the product owner in a heated exchange. The product owner replied that approvals are needed to check for existing patents that would block the product from going to market.

How should the project manager prevent such conflicts?

To handle a change in requirements, a project team needs to be motivated and flexible to re-prioritize tasks.

What leadership style would help the team to perform well in changing and uncertain conditions?

A critical project must be completed on time and exceed all established quality levels. Throughout the project, the project manager takes coffee breaks with the team and asks if they have ideas on how to improve their work style.
Which theory is the project manager’s approach in line with?

A project in a large hospital aims to determine the best schedule to upgrade and automate some of the daily cleaning tasks required by law. The team is using adaptive development loops to test possible schedules. The intensive care unit (ICU) director has been openly resistant to the project, saying the cleaning machines disturb patients and prevent clinicians from working properly. The director wants to continue using the current, nonautomated method.

The project team logged this issue in the issue log, but the director continued to refuse access to the team, escalating the disturbance to leadership.

Which two actions should the project manager take? (Choose 2)

A project team is regularly missing milestones. Stakeholders are concerned that the project will miss the due date for deliverables. The project manager has been aware of team conflict and learns that a team member is missing some skills needed for project completion.

What should the project manager do in this scenario?

A project team is collaborating with an overseas contractor based in a country with three official languages, and every contractor on the team is multilingual. Team meetings continue are held in the commonly shared language, but contractors and subcontractors speak to each other in a different language during project work meetings.

When the project manager mentions this in the next team meeting, the contractors express regret, but they explain that they work better when they can communicate freely.

How should the project manager respond first?

The project is in the execution stage, and market changes push stakeholders to make the due date earlier. The project manager rapidly assigns skilled resources to build and establish the team.

Which of the following would not be included in the project manager’s next steps?

A new resource joins a working project team and is assigned to a small project critical to a more significant program milestone.

Unfortunately, the new resources are under-skilled and very nervous. The team dynamic has become awkward, and work on the small project has slowed down

Which are two ways for the project manager to handle the situation? (Choose two)

An agile approach is required during the final phase of the project.

As the team discussed the phases, some team members disclosed that they had not worked with agile approaches before. The deadline is approaching soon.

How should the project manager respond?

Two users complained during the project user acceptance stage, saying that their expectations were not met.

What should the project manager use to avoid this issue in the future?

A company outsources the execution of a project with a fixed-price contract to a supplier. During execution, the supplier agrees to deliver additional customer requirements not included in the contract. To fulfill the expanded scope, both parties add more resources to keep the project on the planned schedule.
Which technique is being applied in this project?

A project manager in a global organization is responsible for a project involving six different companies. Midway through the project, one stakeholder moves from one company to another.
Which document should the project manager update?

A project team works 24-hour shifts under hazardous conditions to train an operations team at an offshore plant. To ensure safety, one team member personally hands off the notes to the next shift. The system works until team member A complains that they worked more night shifts than everyone else. The project manager checks the rotation for the last three weeks. The scheduler has made an error, and team member A has worked more night shifts than was planned.

Which two actions should the project manager take to resolve the problem? (Choose 2)

A project manager is attempting to engage project stakeholders in a new project and has invited them to daily standup meetings. However, none of the stakeholders have attended any of the project meetings.

What should the project manager do?

The project manager works on multiple projects. One project has new team members and is in the initial stages. The other projects are in various execution stages for the next few weeks.

How can the project manager develop the new team over the next few weeks?

A new project manager must deliver a high-stakes agile project. The vendor collaborating with the team is in another country. Though this vendor has delivered acceptable quality work on time in the past, they are currently behind schedule. The team explained to the project manager that their attempts to get the vendor back on schedule had failed. They have sent emails and made phone calls, but the vendor only gives vague, noncommittal responses. The project sponsor has collaborated with this vendor previously and is aware that this vendor is essential to the success of the project a vital partner of the business.

Which action should the project manager take?

A project manager notices that a team member seems more unhappy after every team meeting. After investigating the situation, the project manager finds out that the team member is not making progress on a key activity, which impacts the critical path. The team member also feels their role on the team is not correct.

What should the project manager do?

A project manager observes that team members are in a low mood after demos. Feedback from stakeholders is constantly causing concern for the team. As a result, the team members rush through product demos, and the interaction between the team and stakeholders is minimal.

Which action should the project manager take?

A startup has proliferated, and four agile teams are now working on related products. All teams have begun to experience impediments and gaps related to work in other teams.

How should the project manager address the problem?

During a project team meeting, the project manager notices a conflict between three key team members with very different personalities.
What should the project manager do first?

A project is in development when a functional manager leaves the company and is no longer involved with the project.
What should the project manager do first?

Under a United Nations (UN) program, several countries will receive funding to establish wind energy generation. In country A, a project team is assigned, and they begin stakeholder engagement. The country A stakeholders list 18 benefits they would like the project to realize. The project team is overwhelmed by the number of benefits requested.

Which two actions should the project team take? (Choose 2)

A project team has established an unofficial online communications platform to enhance communication.

The project manager was unaware that this platform existed until recently, after learning that its use has facilitated some activity that stakeholders find concerning.

Which action should the project manager take?

The project team is small, and the team members have known each other for a long time. The team’s project is in the execution phase. Recently, a team member told the new project manager that another team member had been complaining about how the project was being managed.

How should the new project manager respond?

During the project’s execution, a key team member is concerned with the overall product approach documented in the project management plan. During a weekly status meeting, the member surprises the project manager with negative comments

How should the project manager address the team members’ concerns?

A project manager went on a vacation and returned to find discord in the project. According to two stakeholders, stakeholder M is causing problems. Every day for the last two weeks, that stakeholder emailed the team, checking progress and giving instructions. The team ignored the emails and continued working, but the other stakeholders were concerned about the stakeholder’s behavior.

What should the project manager do?

The agile team is composed of highly skilled product design engineers. Their reputation for quality and speed has earned them new duties in concept development for new products, but team output in this new role has slowed instead of increasing steeply compared to their design work.

Which two measures are most effective to improve team productivity in this case? (Choose two)

A complex project involves the sponsoring company, three other companies, and the primary customer. An issue arises during the current development phase, leading to multiple accusatory and frustrated emails between all parties.

What should the project manager do first?

A construction project is in the execution phase when several new team members from different countries are assigned to the project.
Which document should the project manager update first?

A project manager has difficulty motivating the team to perform a specific task. The team members say the task is repetitive and requires low skill.

Which three options should the project manager consider when designing this team? (Choose 3)

Project team members are busier than usual. They indicate they do not have the time to update the lessons learned repository because of other project responsibilities.

How should the project manager respond?

A governmental agency has been added as a key stakeholder on a complex project due to multiple regulatory changes. The project manager wants to develop an understanding of these new stakeholders and identify any new high-level risks that may result from the change.

What should the project manager do?

Project Alpha is experiencing schedule performance issues. After assessing the issues, the project manager determines that project resources have low levels of expertise.

Specifically, a few of the senior-level resources perform irrelevant work, and some experienced resources take too long to complete tasks.

The project manager needs to enhance team performance.

Which action should the project manager take?

A well–liked manager is reassigned to a different project. The team has expressed disapproval regarding the reassignment.

What action can help mitigate the team’s disapproval?

An agile team member solved a problem that had blocked work for several weeks. After the release of the software, it appears that the solution caused the function to fail. The quality director demands an explanation.

In which two ways should the project manager react? (Choose two)

A customer requested a change to a functionality delivered in the next iteration. The specialist responsible for this functionality was recently assigned to another project.
What should the project manager do first?

In an elevator one day, a company vice president tells a project manager about a risk that may affect the current project. The VP is not involved in the project but is well-respected in the company because of his market knowledge.
The project manager adds the VP to the stakeholder register and alerts the team about the risk. Now, every time the project manager meets the VP in the elevator or in the office kitchen, they give a brief status update on the project and how the team is dealing with the risk that was raised.
Which statement describes the project manager’s action in this scenario?

A functional manager wants to use resources already allocated to a project. What should the project manager do?

During a virtual team meeting with a customer, one team member talks over others, makes inappropriate jokes, and eats on camera. Which approach should the project manager take?

A frustrated agile team member approaches the project manager to complain that a senior team member is claiming all “interesting” backlog items and leaving a tedious set of activities for everyone else.

How should the project manager address the complaint?

The project manager with limited experience manages a globally distributed team. Team members are appointed from different countries and speak different native languages. To successfully manage his project, the project manager needs cultural sensitivity.

What of the following actions should the project manager not take?

A long-standing key team member on a virtual team has been unmotivated for weeks after the death of a family member. Because of this, several project activities are behind schedule, impacting the project’s critical path.

How should the project manager handle the situation?

A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, some team members have not had the appropriate agile training.

How should the project manager respond to the lack of agile training?

During a challenging stakeholder meeting, one stakeholder indicated that they would reject all iterations deliverables.

What should the project manager do?

As a result of a drastic cut to the budget, a project’s steering committee is replaced with a single sponsor.

What should the project manager do?

A stakeholder requests more frequent and detailed project status reports than a previous agreement and expresses interest in becoming more involved with the project.
How should the project manager address this situation?

A highly skilled and valued team member frequently is in trouble with human resources (HR). The issues are confidential, but the situation is impacting other team members in a negative way. However, the team’s performance has not yet been affected.

What should the project manager do?

A team member is asked to move to another project during the middle of the technical project. The team believes this is an unwise move and expresses concern.

Which action will help to resolve the issue?

An unresolved conflict between a member of the third-party vendor’s team and a member of the project team is causing a disruption.

The issue is escalated to the project manager.

What is the first thing the project manager should do?

A project manager joins the project team, replacing a manager who left. During initial meetings, the project manager realizes that the team members have differing opinions addressing technical decisions. Team members do not respect each other’s ideas, and the environment has become counterproductive. However, now, with the new manager’s leadership, the team has begun to communicate more effectively and develop processes and procedures for working together.

In what phase of development is the team in now?

The project team works virtually because of a recent natural disaster. Several activities were delayed because a project team member has not worked during the past week. This delay impacts the critical path.

How should the project manager respond to this problem?

Three project teams are working on parts of a single project. The parts are highly dependent on each other. The team lead indicates that this might create conflicts in the outputs from the three teams when combined.

What guidance should the project manager offer to the team lead?

A global fashion house is planning next season’s product line and initiating a project to create media buzz before Fashion Week. The team launches a social media campaign. One team member publishes one of the top-secret designs on their personal social media feed.

The project manager speaks with the team member about the breach, and the team member apologizes, explaining that they had hoped to generate publicity. However, competitors pounce on the opportunity, and a costly mistake is made.

Which three actions should the project manager take to safeguard the future of the project?

(Choose 3)

A project manager learns that a stakeholder thinks that only specific stakeholders are getting all the project updates and feels left out of the information loop. What should the project manager do?

A project team member reports that environmental issues at the job site are causing emotional and physical distress to residents and businesses in the surrounding community. The team spends a significant amount of time each morning speaking to community members, explaining and rectifying impacts of the site construction.

Which engagement strategy should the project team have used for these stakeholders?

The atmosphere is tense in the sprint planning review. The agile team members are visibly unhappy – one kicks the chair and shouts at the product owner. “That just doesn’t make sense”.

Which two actions should the project manager take in this situation? (Choose two)

A project utilizes a third-party contractor.

A member of the contractor’s team raises an issue with a member of the project team. The two individuals are not able to work out a solution.

The project manager is aware of the disagreement.

Which type of communication should the project manager use first when contacting the vendor about this issue?

A project manager is working on a small project critical for a more significant program milestone. A new resource was assigned to replace a key resource who had to leave the project. Unfortunately, an outside stakeholder claims that the person who assigned the new resource sent their weakest team member.

How should the project manager approach this?

The project team is comprised of local and virtual team members for a project. To manage scheduling priority conflicts among project team members, the project manager schedules a video conference call.

Which conflict resolution technique does this statement demonstrate?

A cross-functional team on a critical project reports a delay in developing a prototype. The project manager believes that the cause is a need for more knowledge in a specific, required area on the team.

How can the project manager prevent the situation on future projects? (Choose three)

The due date for a project’s deliverables is approaching, but one team member’s performance negatively impacts the schedule. What should the project manager do?

During a project status meeting, the project manager discovers that stakeholders have different expectations that are not aligned. None of these expectations have been met, which has created tension in the meeting.
What should the project manager do to keep things moving on the project?

The project manager, experienced in predictive methods, is taking on an agile project for the first time. To help make a successful transition, the project manager lists situations that may arise as a servant leader.

Which three situations would be on this list? (Choose three)

To augment the team, an agile team includes staff members from various organizational departments who rotate in and out.

How can the project manager help shield the permanent team members from disruption?

An efficient, empowered agile innovation team does not understand why required approvals from the legal department are allowed to delay their progress. Eventually, the team confronts the product owner in a heated exchange. The product owner replied that approvals are needed to check for existing patents that would block the product from going to market.

How should the project manager prevent such conflicts?

A global organization sponsors a project that involves six different companies. When the project is partially complete, the project manager learns that one stakeholder is ill and needs to decrease their level of involvement.

What should the project manager do?

Several new members are added to an ongoing project. Although all the original team members receive basic training on the specifics of the business operation that the project supports, the new team members do not have the same basic understanding. This lack of understanding results in decreased productivity.

How should the project manager respond to this issue?

During the execution of a project, the finance team identified that they were not involved in building the business case for the project and would not approve the estimated return on investment (ROI). What should the project manager do?

A complex manufacturing project has multiple stakeholders in multiple locations. It is entering a high-activity phase, and the project manager needs to ensure that all stakeholders are kept informed with timely updates.
What should the project manager do first?

A new resource joins a working project team and is assigned to a small project critical to a more significant program milestone.

Unfortunately, the new resources are under-skilled and very nervous. The team dynamic has become awkward, and work on the small project has slowed down

Which are two ways for the project manager to handle the situation?

(Choose two)

An agile approach is required during the final phase of the project.

As the team discussed the phases, some team members disclosed that they had not worked with agile approaches before. The deadline is approaching soon.

How should the project manager respond?

Two users complained during the project user acceptance stage, saying that their expectations were not met.

What should the project manager use to avoid this issue in the future?

A project team is collaborating with an overseas contractor based in a country with three official languages, and every contractor on the team is multilingual. Team meetings continue are held in the commonly shared language, but contractors and subcontractors speak to each other in a different language during project work meetings.

When the project manager mentions this in the next team meeting, the contractors express regret, but they explain that they work better when they can communicate freely.

How should the project manager respond first?

The project is in the execution stage, and market changes push stakeholders to make the due date earlier. The project manager rapidly assigns skilled resources to build and establish the team.

Which of the following would not be included in the project manager’s next steps?

You discover the product owner is highly protective over who gets access to the backlog. Anyone needing access to specific informaiton in the backlog should speak directly with him. What do you, as the project manager, do?

A project in the execution phase is on track and within budget. A key stakeholder requests a change in communication frequency. They want to discontinue receiving weekly status reports and be notified only if an issue requires their attention.
What should the project manager do?

A project incurs a 4-week delay. If delayed another two weeks or longer, the project will be penalized. To deliver on time, the team is offered appealing financial compensation and two days of vacation.
What theory is being applied?