Which of the following should you contemplate when selecting a life-cycle methodology? (Select three.)

What can you do to achieve support from the executive team?

Provide education and training

Lack of executive buy-in occurs when leaders are accustomed to a predictive mindset and approaches. A new way of working may be difficult to understand without education and training. The Agile Practice Guide also recommends describing Agile terms using lean thinking, such as frequent reviews.

You are using Crystal Red to operate your project. At the beginning of the project, you negotiated with leadership to colocate the team together within a large team for the duration of the project. Your intent is to set up an environment where team members can overhear conversations as they occur within the room to politely eavesdrop and involve in conversations as needed. What is this communication method named?

Osmotic communication

Osmotic communication is a form of polite eavesdropping and is used within the Crystal methodology. It occurs when there are conversations going on in the background but within earshot of the team. Team members overhear conversations and may realize the topic has importance to the project.

You work for a company that writes billing software programs for the communication industry. Your customer is residing in a country that restricts the number of foreigners allowed into the country. You identify this risk in your risk management plan. The critical point during the project is installation and setup. You have assessed the risks and are practicing the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process. Which of the following tools and techniques will you exploit to determine the potential effect on the project objectives (such as time, cost, scope, or quality) and determine the likelihood of the risk happenning?

Risk probability and impact assessment

The risk probability and impact assessment tool and technique is used to determine the likelihood the risk will occur and the potential effects on project objectives. After performing the assessment, you’ll determine risk scores or conditions (red, yellow, green) using the probability and impact matrix.

Who is responsible for comprehending the interests and personal agendas of stakeholders?

Project manager

The project manager is responsible for understanding the interests of stakeholders and getting in front of any potential conflict that may arise as a result of their personal interests.

You are working on an Agile project that is most concerned about offering finished deliverables that the customer may use immediately. Which development life cycle are you most likely to follow?

Incremental

An incremental life cycle focuses on completing deliverables by the end of each iteration so that it may be turned over to the customer for use.

As shifting throughout the project, where does a project manager document the constraints and remains regular updates?

Assumption log

The assumption log contains both assumptions and constraints and is first created during the Develop Project Charter process.

Kristin has recently participated a growing startup company in the medical device industry. While she is contemplating an experienced project manager, the industry is new for her. To be effective, what activity should Kristin perform?

Assess the organization’s culture

When joining a new organization, it is important that a project manager familiarize themselves with the organization’s culture. Understanding how the organization operates, its tolerance level, and its appetite for risk, among other things, will help Kristin tailor her project management approach and better understand the behaviors and norms of the team.

Select the best descriptions of the role of a product owner within an Agile team?

The individual responsible for guiding the direction of the product

There are three common roles used in Agile teams: cross-functional team member, product owner, and team facilitator.

Availability, cost, and ability are instances of what?

Team member selection criteria

When building a team, project managers must take several factors into account. One tool used as part of the decision-making process is multicriteria decision analysis. Availability, cost, and ability are examples of team member selection criteria that a project manager may use. Availability, cost, and ability may be assumptions or constraints captured but are not considered ongoing.

Mike is a seasoned project manager who has been tasked with mentoring Bernard, a junior project manager. During a mentoring session, Mike emphasizes the importance of managing lines of communication and then asks Bernard how many stakeholders are involved in his project. Bernard responds with 15. How many lines of communication must Bernard operate for his project?

105

To calculate lines of communication, use the following formula, where n represents total number of stakeholders: n(n – 1) ÷ 2. Next, plug in 15 in place of the n to get the answer: 15(15 – 1) ÷ 2 = 105.

Select three common sources of conflict? (Select three.)

Scarce resources

Personal work styles

Scheduling priorities

According to the PMBOK® Guide, sources of conflict include scarce resources, scheduling priorities, and personal work styles. Having team ground rules, group norms, and project management practices (i.e., communication planning and role definition) are ways of reducing conflict.

The Big Mouth grocery food chain is planning to modernize their IT department by creating a new bar coding system that will allow them to keep their shelves stocked more efficiently by using the Just in Time strategy. However, during the project chartering phase the project manager explained to them that in order to exploit the Just in Time strategy, a company must have a high level of:

Quality

With the Just in Time strategy, inventory costs are brought in just as they are needed. But to implement this type of strategy, a company must be highly efficient and have a high focus on quality, or the strategy won’t work, and the goods will arrive either too early or too late.

In what activity is the project manager engaged in?

Developing the stakeholder engagement plan

The stakeholder engagement plan captures the strategies used to promote productive involvement of stakeholders throughout the project. While the stakeholder engagement plan is a component of the project management plan, identifying the component itself is a more specific and therefore better answer.

A project manager operating a small project has a total of 45 active stakeholders. How many lines of communication that the manager conduct?

990

The formula for calculating lines of communication is as follows, where n represents the total number of stakeholders (you are already assumed to have been included in the number): n(n – 1) ÷ 2. Plug in the numbers to get the following: 45(45 − 1) ÷ 2 = 990.