A few developers have submitted their resignation after completing their annual review and receiving their annual bonus. The project manager cannot find replacements for all of the developers in time to meet the project's deadline. What should the project manager do?
A. Request additional budget to recruit more developers.
B. Lower the recruitment criteria.
C. Log the issue in the issue log.
D. Analyze the impact and inform the stakeholders.
Due to a recent company merger, a project manager from company B has been assigned to a team that is comprised of team members from company A. At the start of the project, conflicts arise due to a lack of clarity on processes and the project manager's relationship with company B.
What should the project manager do to resolve this conflict?
A. Avoid the conflict as the customer feels comfortable with using processes from company A.
B. Review the historical information and make the decision based on the return on investment (ROI).
C. Ask the team to use company B's processes since they are more familiar with these processes.
D. Work with the team to analyze which processes are suitable to use and define them in the ground rules.
A project manager for a digital transformation project has already received the business needs for the project. When gathering requirements, the project manager discovers that not all of the requirements can be delivered with the available resources, but that some of the requirements will be enough to add business value.
With the project on a fixed budget, what should the project manager do next?
A. Plan the project based on the available resources and submit a change request upon completion.
B. Gather all stakeholders and provide recommendations on a smaller, more feasible project scope.
C. Identify the technical requirements and request that management hire external resources.
D. Document the problem in the issue log and suggest a change request to decrease the scope.
A company is engaged in a transformation journey, and the project manager for this endeavor is new to this project. During one of the project status update meetings, a key stakeholder, the project manager's functional manager, is dissatisfied with the work in progress, and points to the project manager.
What should the project manager do?
A. Schedule a one-on-one meeting with the functional manager to prove the project is on time.
B. Listen carefully and show understanding of the growing needs of the functional manager.
C. Admit that the functional manager is right and promise to rectify the situation immediately.
D. Show the functional manager that the progress is on time based on the schedule.
Which enterprise environmental factors may influence Plan Schedule Management?
A. Cultural views regarding time schedules and professional and ethical behaviors
B. Historical information and change control procedures
C. Risk control procedures and the probability and impact matrix
D. Resource availability and organizational culture and structure
A state-of-the-art product was delivered at the end of a project life cycle. However, the customer claims the product was not designed to specifications. What should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?
A. The customer's requirements should have been captured in order to meet the customer's standards.
B. The iteration review planning meeting should have been planned accordingly.
C. The sprint retrospective meeting should have included necessary stakeholders.
D. The customer's requirements should have been captured and modified to meet the supplier's standards.
A project manager is assigned to a major construction project. The project is critical to the city's population, and especially to the local government official who committed to delivering the project on time as an election promise. A new project sponsor has been assigned and wants to include aspects that the previous project sponsor did not support.
What should the project manager do next?
A. Meet with the new project sponsor to review the current project scope and the requested changes.
B. Rebaseline the project as there is now a new project sponsor, which is presenting an opportunity to review and recalibrate the project objectives.
C. Invite the project sponsor to a briefing with the project team to demonstrate progress and seek further support to meet project-committed deliverables.
D. Inform the new project sponsor that the new aspects will not be included in this project.
The project team is experiencing schedule delays due to issues arising with suppliers. Some of the tasks are on the critical path. What should the project manager do in this situation?
A. Discuss the critical path issues with the purchasing department.
B. Review the critical path with the stakeholders to define next steps.
C. Review the work breakdown structure (WBS) with the suppliers.
D. Escalate the supplier-related issues to the sponsor for resolution.
In the initial project meeting, a stakeholder presents a complaint about the validity of the project. The complaint occurs after the stakeholder discovers that the project will not deliver the objectives they expected and will have a higher cost.
How should the project manager handle the complaint?
A. Highlight the reasons for the project cost increase and negotiate with the providers to reduce the cost.
B. Use management skills to convince the stakeholder in agreeing to the project cost.
C. Delay discussions with the stakeholder and request a revision of the project with the sponsors.
D. Reinforce the importance of the project mission and the overall vision of the work to be performed.
There are two interdependent projects: the first project is in execution, and the second one is about to be deployed. The first project has been delayed, which is now affecting the second project due to the sharing of resources.
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A. Ask for written commitment from the team manager assuring the deployment team can work on only one of the projects.
B. Assess the issue with the deployment resources' availability and define a plan to deploy extra resources to the deployment team.
C. Organize a meeting with the deployment team and explain that, due to a resource shortage, the project will be delayed.
D. Ask the procurement team to solicit offers from external providers in order to replace the internal resources for the deployment.