Pocket Prep Flashcards
You are in a meeting with the project team and are reviewing the Agile quality review requirements. Agile methods call for frequent quality review steps to be built in throughout the project lifecycle. Project Quality Management supports continuous process improvement activities as undertaken on behalf of the performing organization.
What are these called?
Recurring retrospectives
You are leading a project that includes a multi-phased approach. The last milestone has been completed for the last phase. When does the project manager arrange for the storage of procurement records and/or drawings?
Close Project or Phase
Rasheed is in a meeting to discuss dependencies on the cost-benefit analysis for his project. The cost-benefit analysis for the business case of a project is best completed by?
A business analyst
A new subcontractor has been hired to perform a portion of the work for an ongoing project. Which of the following best describes a tool to assess whether the subcontractor is adhering to the customer’s requirements and the industry standards?
Quality audit
A project manager has just been reassigned to a new organization working on a very large and complex IT infrastructure project. She is known to have experience managing these types of projects along with her effective communication methods. What communication method is best used for this type of environment?
The pull communication method is best used for large complex information sets that may be found within complex projects. This communication method is best used for large audiences, which requires the individual to access the content at their own time. Pull communication methods include web portals, intranet sites, eLearning, knowledge repositories, or lessons learned databases.
You walk into the office one day and a senior leader from your organization has updated all the project management software on the computers. This new change has drastically improved the efficiency of how your projects are run. This change is best known as?
Technological innovation
Pawel is a seasoned project manager for an IT-based services company. Given his years of experience, he realizes the importance of managing risks. What type of risk analysis should be completed for all projects?
Qualitative risk analysis
You are assigned to a new software development project and meet with the product owner for the first time who states that the project has a clear vision, but there are initial requirements that will be changed often by evaluating the customer’s feedback. What development approach was utilized in this project?
Adaptive approach
A scrum meeting is underway, and a developer mentions an issue that is giving him a hard time completing his tasks. Another developer recognizes the problem and starts talking to him about solutions, which begins to prolong the meeting. As the scrum master, you advise these team members that the daily scrum meeting is not a troubleshooting meeting. What is your next course of action to address this issue?
Advise the team members to have a discussion after the meeting has ended
As the assigned project manager for a construction project, you are estimating costs for the required resources to complete the project. You develop the cost estimates and review them with the project sponsor. Which of the following best describes a cost estimate?
A quantitative assessment of the likely costs for resources required to complete the activity
Your project team has an 8 AM status meeting every Friday to go over the latest project details with all key stakeholders. The company has just hired a new consultant to work remotely because she is based in Hawaii. This means that the weekly status meeting will occur in the middle of the night for the new team member. Right now, the rest of your team has no availability later in the day to push the meeting.
Where should this new development with stakeholder availability be documented?
Issue log
When managing remote teams, it is often challenging to find a time for meetings when all team members can be available during their normal working hours, especially when operating in different time zones. Until a resolution can be found, this is an issue that should be appropriately logged in the issue log.
Logan is an agile coach nearing the end of a 2-week iteration. Iterations will often prompt two types of activities in the end. One of the activities calls for a demonstration. What is the other activity?
Correct answer: Retrospectives
In an agile environment, teams will often plan for iterations that last about 1-2 weeks. The end of the iterations will prompt a demonstration and a retrospective. Retrospectives are important because they allow the team to reflect on what to improve, learn about, and adapt to its process. They help the team learn from previous work to be applied to improve project performance.
Luna is evaluating the project schedule for her project. In a meeting with her project team, she determines that the project is ahead of schedule. If a project is ahead of schedule, which of the following can be true of the float?
Correct answer: It is positive
In the planning stage, the critical path of a project will have zero float. When the project has positive float on the critical path, it means the project is ahead of the planned schedule. Slack time (also called float) is the amount of delay, expressed in units of time, that could be tolerated in the starting time or completion time of a task without causing a delay in the completion of the project. Slack time is a calculated number. It is the difference between the Late Finish and the Early Finish (LF – EF).
You meet with your team to decide on the type of technology that will be utilized for the new project that is about to begin. Toward the end, the project team decides on the type of technology. What decision-making practice was performed in this situation?
Correct answer: Participatory decision making
The project team members participate in the decision-making process with what is called participatory decision making. This type of decision making is based on respect and mutual trust. This is a creative process that delegates decision ownership to the project team members.
