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Question 716

In taking over a failing project you hold a status meeting and find that the IS department and the business operations representatives are avoiding each other. You realize that before moving on you need to do some team building. The type of behavior that the IS and operations people are demonstrating is:

A.Forcing
B.Withdrawal
C.Problem solving
D.Smoothing

Question 717

A project manager is gathering formal project requirements. After conducting stakeholder interviews, the project manager realizes that some objectives are inconsistent with those in the project charter. Based on information learned during the initiation phase, this project must be highly focused to stay within budget limits.
To manage requirements and meet stakeholder expectations, what should the project manager do?

A.Realign the stakeholder's expectations with the objectives in the project charter.
B.Expand the project charter to include the newly identified objectives.
C.Remove objectives in the project charter that are not aligned with the stakeholders' objectives.
D.Disregard stakeholders' objectives that may be outside the scope detailed in the project charter.

Question 718

A Project Manager is in the execution phase of a highly visible project and a major milestone is due in three weeks. The Project Manager has discovered that a vendor's deliverable for this milestone will be five weeks late. What should the Project Manager do?

A.Do not report this problem in the status meeting
B.Meet with the team and brainstorm how to create a workaround for this problem
C.Report the status of the missed milestone
D.Halt all payments to the vendor until the deliverable is received

Question 719

A product owner Goes not regularly attend demonstration ceremonies. As a result, the demonstration ceremonies are constantly rescheduled and the work is impacted in multiple ways. The project manager believes the product owner Is not committed to the project.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?

A.Defined a set of external audits that can expose this situation to the project sponsor
B.Agreed with the product owner on appropriate project governance levels
C.Set a definition of done (DoD) that considers the work as done if not otherwise specified
D.Asked another product owner to attend the demonstrations on behalf of the product owner

Correct Answer: B

According to the PMBOK Guide, project governance is the framework, functions, and processes that guide project management activities in order to create value and meet organizational objectives. Project governance also defines the roles and responsibilities of the project stakeholders, including the product owner, who is the person or group that is responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog and accepting the product increments1.
One of the principles of agile project management, as described in the Agile Practice Guide, is to collaborate with customers and stakeholders frequently and throughout the project. This principle implies that the product owner should be actively involved in the project and provide timely feedback and guidance to the project team. The product owner should also attend the demonstration ceremonies, which are events where the project team showcases the product increments to the product owner and other stakeholders and collects their feedback2.
Therefore, the project manager should have agreed with the product owner on appropriate project governance levels, which means defining the expectations, commitments, and communication channels between the project team and the product owner. This would have helped to avoid the situation where the product owner does not regularly attend the demonstration ceremonies and causes delays and disruptions to the project. By agreeing on the project governance levels, the project manager and the product owner could have established a mutual understanding of the value and importance of the demonstration ceremonies and the product owner's role and responsibility in them.
References:
1: Project Management Institute. (2023). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) - Seventh Edition. Newtown Square, PA: Author.
2: Project Management Institute. (2023). Agile Practice Guide. Newtown Square, PA: Author.

Question 720

An agile project has a broad set of product features intended for different user profiles and usages. It is difficult to define common acceptance criteria that can apply to all the features.
How can the project manager ensure that the appropriate acceptance criteria are applied to the features?

A.Use the broadest set of acceptance criteria to ensure that all features have a common quality baseline and associated functional test cases.
B.Define the acceptance criteria and specific functional test cases only after analyzing the user feedback from testing the early feature release.
C.Integrate the acceptance criteria review into the definition of ready (DoR) for each feature and associated tests into the feature's definition of done (DoD).
D.Integrate the specific tests into the definition of ready (DoR) for each feature and the acceptance criteria into the feature's definition of done (DoD).

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