You are a project manager for SubZero Delights, a company that offers extraordinary experiences to travelers. Your latest project involves the development of a smartphone app that automatically picks up a customer’s GPS coordinates to provide tailored resources and recommendations. You are new to the company and are considering culture in determining how best to manage the project. What can you examine to evaluate culture?
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Culture can be considered by examining organizational bias. This relates to the values and preferences that characterize the organization and its culture. According to the Agile Practice Guide, the biases include exploring versus executing, speed versus stability, quality versus quantity, and flexibility versus predictability.
Question 2 - ID: 893380
Manfrit and Frank are two project managers who have supported one another throughout their careers. During a casual lunch, Frank asks Manfrit for advice, noting that he has been struggling to get his team to embrace eXtreme Programming practices. He notes that, after undergoing a few training sessions, the team doesn’t understand the terminology and finds it confusing. What advice should Manfrit provide in this situation?
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Tailoring is often a way to address obstacles and blockers for teams looking to adopt more Agile practices. When Agile terms and language do not fit the organizational norms, one way to overcome it is by modifying the terms so that team members understand and agree to the activities. To be successful, teams should clearly define terms in order to align with the meaning.
Question 3 - ID: 702870
Which of the following documents identifies 12 principles that are the focus of the Agile approach?
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In 2001, several software developers converged to formalize the Agile approach. They published the manifesto for Agile software development and identified 12 principles that are the focus of any Agile approach.
Question 4 - ID: 723337
You are working on an Agile project that is most concerned about providing finished deliverables that the customer may use immediately. Which development life cycle are you most likely to use?
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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.
Question 5 - ID: 503454
When evaluating whether to adopt a predictive, Agile, or hybrid approach, what three categories can an organization assess suitability against?
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There are various Agile suitability filters and/or models available that help determine whether an organization would benefit from adopting Agile approaches. A broad model presented within the Agile Practice Guide assesses organizations against three categories: culture (i.e., does the environment support the approach?), team (i.e., is the team of a suitable size?), and project (i.e., are there high rates of change?).
Question 6 - ID: 943472
Servant leaders are practicing role models of Agile practices. How do servant leaders approach their work?
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Servant leaders engage the team and take on a selfless view by serving others. They do this by approaching their work in the following order: purpose, people, and process.
Question 7 - ID: 813483
What are three characteristics of an Agile PMO?
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Agile PMOs guide the organization in achieving business value. There are multiple types of PMOs; an Agile PMO is value-driven, invitation-oriented, and multidisciplinary.
Question 8 - ID: 703260
Gabriela is responsible for leading project delivery efforts within her department. Currently, she is managing a project that will add a series of new features to a smartphone application that offers users an interactive “virtual friend.” She is managing the beginning and end of the project using a waterfall approach and executing the work by following Scrum practices. At the onset of the project, Gabriela documents how the project will be executed, monitored, and closed. What document is Gabriela creating?
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The project management plan describes how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. It addresses the various elements of how the project will be managed, including any methodology that will be used.
Question 9 - ID: 352964
A PMO leader is guiding the organization through Agile adoption. What characteristics should she consider when evaluating organizational readiness of Agile approaches?
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When considering Agile approaches, organizational leaders should evaluate the compatibility of those methods to determine whether the organization is ready and can support such change. This includes the willingness to change at the executive management level and at the broader organizational level. There must be a willingness to focus on short-term budgeting and metrics versus long-term goals.
Question 10 - ID: 522800
Change-driven life cycles are also known by what other name?
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Change-driven life cycles are also known as Agile or adaptive life cycles.
Question 11 - ID: 873402
A project manager working within an Agile PMO is using a new approved contractor to fast-track the implementation of cloud-based solutions for her project. As part of overseeing the procurement activities for the project, she conducts a structured review of the work performed by the contractor. Which tool and technique does this question describe?
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Inspection may involve a simple or physical review of the work performed by a contractor. It is structured in nature and is meant to ensure that a mutual understanding exists of the work in progress.
Question 12 - ID: 832745
An agile team’s social contract likely addresses which of the following?
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The team charter, also referred to as a team’s social contract, typically addresses how the team will work together and interact. Examples provided by the Agile Practice Guide include team values, working agreements, ground rules, and group norms. Team assignments are not typically included within this social contract.
Question 13 - ID: 332805
Which of the following represents a benefit of using an Agile approach to manage projects?
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Using an Agile approach, a project team can assess results and adjust processes to meet new or modified requirements.
Question 14 - ID: 273309
A project manager is responsible for a project that consists of Agile team members dispersed across four time zones. The team has experienced communication issues as a result. What can the project manager do to alleviate the communication challenges?
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Teams that are geographically disbursed can still benefit from common virtual workspaces. The Agile Practice Guide provides two examples: creating a fishbowl window through an ongoing videoconferencing link between various locations, which is live through the workday, and setting up remote pairing through virtual conferencing tools that allow for screen, video, and audio sharing capabilities.
Question 15 - ID: 253421
Marysil is an enterprise project manager for Cups on Fire. She is managing the implementation of an enterprise relationship management system using a hybrid of waterfall and Scrum. In preparation for a meeting with the sponsor, Marysil plans to review how much work the team has and whether they will finish on time. Which of the following are useful point-in-time measurements that Marysil may use?
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Burnup charts, burndown charts, lead time, and cycle time provide useful in-the-moment measurements, providing insight into capacity measures and predictability measures. These types of measurements can provide the team with an understanding of how much more work they have and whether they will finish on time.
Question 16 - ID: 173353
To increase communication across ambiguous projects, a project manager using an Agile approach is likely to do what?
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Projects that have high degrees of ambiguity and change require frequent and quick communication. Communicating frequently and transparently is a common characteristic of Agile approaches.
Question 17 - ID: 512937
All of the following are true statements except for which one?
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The purpose of the daily stand-up meetings, one of three key meetings used within Scrum, is not planning. Instead, daily stand-up meetings are used to uncover any obstacles to committed work and as a way to ensure that work is progressing smoothly.
Question 18 - ID: 863283
Sue is leading the transformation of her PMO from a directive PMO to an Agile PMO. What characteristics is Sue likely to highlight when describing the Agile PMO to the company’s leadership team?
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Agile project management offices (PMOs) exist to guide the organization in continuously achieving business value. According to the Agile Practice Guide, an Agile PMO is value-driven, invitation-oriented, and multidisciplinary.
Question 19 - ID: 953323
A project manager is developing a high-level summary timeline of the schedule, based on the product road map, in collaboration with the team. This exercise will determine the number of sprints that are included within the release. Which tool or technique is the project manager and team using to develop the schedule?
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Agile release planning is a tool and technique of the Develop Schedule process. According to the PMBOK® Guide, it provides a high-level summary timeline of the release schedule and helps the team determine the number of iterations or sprints needed to complete the release.
Question 20 - ID: 293069
Which of the following reflect principles listed in the Agile Manifesto?
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The Agile Manifesto for Software Development was published in 2001 by thought leaders in the software industry. The intent was to propose a new way of developing software. It consists of 12 principles and 4 key values.
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