PMP (Resource Management) Questions

During a sprint planning meeting, the scrum team is arguing over115 story points' worth of user stories that the product owner is pushing to be completed in the upcoming sprint However, the development team's average velocity is only 100 story points.

 Who makes the final decision on how many story points will be targeted for completion during a sprint?

A project manager is in the process of obtaining the necessary equipment, materials,  and supplies for a prototype development project. The project will  require the use of the performing organization's industrial 30 printer, and the project manager has just learned that it is currently committed to another project for the next three days.

 What should the project manager do first?

During your project execution, another project that is part of the program to which your project also belongs, submitted a request for a specific engineer who possesses a unique knowledge that your project needs soon.

 What is your best action?

Two developers are having a heated argument characterized by personal attacks over who should take a particular user story in the Kan ban board. The project manager steps in and settles the dispute by splitting the user story and having each developer work one aspect of the solution. This action resolves the dispute, but a week later, the same two developers get into another shouting match over how to implement an approved change request. The project manager helps again, but similar conflicts recur almost weekly.

 What might the project manager have done differently to avoid these recurring arguments?

A project team comprised of designers, programmers, and testers uses a Kanban board to manage their workflow. While monitoring the project schedule, the project manager reviews the board and notices a bottle neck at the testing column caused by the WIP limit. As a result, some of the programmers are idled, the team's velocity is slowed, and the schedule baseline is at risk.

 What is the best course of action for the project manager?

A project manager is following the resource management plan and needs to gain a better understanding of the team members' preferences and aspirations in order to tailor individual developmental activities.

 What is the best course of action?

Your team has been spending an unusual amount of time arguing in meetings. You have conducted team training to improve meeting discipline and listening skills. Which document should be updated to reflect the new team standards of conduct?

At the beginning of your project, you were authorized to offer incentives to the designers to work in your company's office building for the duration of the project. You secured a temporary workspace to accommodate the entire project design team in a common area. This strategy allows them to work in proximity to one another to enhance their ability to perform as a unified design team.

 What tool or technique did you use in this scenario?

A project has reached a critical point, and a decision must be made immediately to salvage the project from failure. The project manager meets with the projectteam and key stakeholders. The meeting runs for a few hours, but the participants are unable to agree on anything

 What should the project manager do?

During project execution, a major supplier goes bankrupt. After conducting root cause analysis, the project team determines that a shortage of raw materials was the reason for the supplier to go out of business. The team researches and explores various options, and decides to hire another supplier, even though it will  raise costs. After the new supplier delivers on the contract, the team reviews project performance information to determine if the project's resource needs have been met.

 Which of the following best describes the technique being employed in this scenario?

You take over a project that has just been baselined. You review the project management plan and realize that while the development phase of the project will use an adaptive lifecycle, the development team does not have any experience with agile methodologies. The resource management plan does not specify any agile training

 What should you do first?

A company wants to improve the performance of its agile teams.  Most of the team members work remotely for various reasons. The senior management team seeks advice from an agile coach as to the best approach that would have the biggest positive impact on teams' performance. The management says that funds are not an issue and nothing is off-limits.

 What would be the best advice the agile coach can provide to the company's management?

An experienced agile practitioner was explaining the benefits of empowered, self-organizing, and self-directing teams. Some agile team members then complained that their manager is not very agile as demonstrated  by their very directive style of communication.

 How would the agile practitioner most likely respond to this comment?

Mid way into project execution, a team member suggests using a new testing method that, if successful, would save the team time in each consecutive iteration and eventually put the project ahead of schedule.  If the new testing method is unsuccessful,  however, the entire performance measurement baseline might need to be revised.

 What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Asa project manager, you are leading a century-old building renovation project, where theft of equipment,  materials, and supplies has been a problem. You have found that moving anything of value that is portable into a single secured room of the building has significantly reduced the losses with minimal cost.

 What should you do next?