PMI-ACPPreview

Management decides to set up a new project to exploit an emergent market opportunity. Management suggests using an agile approach that is currently working for another project.

What should the agile leader do next?

As a team completes their 21st sprint, new information reveals that a number of significant system integrations must be made to ensure the project scope is met. How should the project management plan be adjusted?

During a project's last iteration, an agile team struggled with a feature's delivery due to the lack of a required skill. The project has already incurred a five-day delay. A further delay of at least 10 days is anticipated.

What should the agile project leader have done to avoid this situation?

While working on a sprint for a software development project, the team is unsure of how the feature should be designed. The project sponsor recommends developing a prototype of the user interface to discover more about this feature.

Why is the project sponsor making this suggestion?

A team is preparing to demonstrate new product capabilities to a leadership team. The demonstration will show working software and a listing of the projected value of the capabilities.

What should the team do to ensure the demonstration is successful?

Over the last two sprints, a number of potential problems have threatened the team's ability to hit the targeted release date. What should the agile practitioner do?

A team member does not understand what the project risks are or the impact that they could have. How should an agile leader communicate risks in a way that the team will understand?

An agile team is struggling to achieve their goal during the first release due to an unstable environment beyond the authority of the product owner. Close to the end of the current sprint, the release manager resigns and a new person takes over.

What should the scrum master do?

A project team tasked with delivering a solution with extremely aggressive timelines is facing an issue with meeting their sprint velocity targets. To address this issue and bring the project back on track, what action should the team take?

A customer has difficulty explaining how the highest priority feature will work. What should the agile project manager do?

While planning, what prioritization factors need to be considered for a minimally marketable feature (MMF)?

An executive sponsor of a new scrum team actively attends scrum ceremonies.
How does this benefit the team?

During the iteration planning of a newly on boarded agile team, the product owner adds a set of high priority user stories into the iteration backlog.
What should the team do first to define the tasks need to implement the user stories?

Stakeholders are displeased with the latest release of a product's software. While most stakeholders attended every sprint review, they were otherwise largely uninvolved in the project.
What should the agile practitioner have done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction?

A product owner for two highly visible projects spends a great deal of time meeting with and reporting to senior stakeholders. The product owner is overwhelmed because both project teams request clarification on the requirements and the overall priorities.
What should the agile project manager do?

An organization initiates a pilot project to introduce agile methodology for the successful delivery of projects.
What should the project manager do to share this project's knowledge and learning with wider organizational business groups?

During a team meeting, members who are subject matter experts (SMEs) mention that they are continuously working on repetitive tasks, which has lowered motivation.
What should the agile practitioner do?

Midway through a sprint, a team member discovers that the product design fails to adhere to the organization's enterprise architecture standards. Since this required escalation to the architecture team for further analysis and resolution, the team was unable to deliver its sprint goal and the sprint was cancelled.
What should the team have done to avoid this?

A seven-member agile team's composition varies considerably in age, gender, culture, personality type, and professional background.
When planning a team-building event, what type of interpersonal skills should the project leader use?

During a planning session, four out of five team members vote to include eight story points in a particular story, while the fifth member votes for five story points.
How should this be handled?

Why should a project team reduce the work in progress?

An agile project manager is planning the initial scope, schedule, and cost range estimates on a new project. The team will be using Kanban to control work.
What metrics should the team use to measure performance?

What role should a servant leader perform to reduce team distractions and improve progress toward project goals?

A new product owner shares the product vision during the team launch event. The team asks for clarification on the product roadmap and its high-level features.
What should the product owner do?