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Which skill should a project manager use when dealing with change and ambiguity?

• Escalating risks

• Effective organizational skills

• Enabling decision-making

• Flexibility

As a project manager, you have a weekly video conference with stakeholders as part of your communication plan. What two additional details should the communication plan include?

• Location

• Goal

• Key dates

• Duration

Tools like Gantt charts and Kanban boards help benefit team members in what three ways?

• They can translate project contracts like the statement of work into number and dollar amounts

• They provide clear context about work project details

• They can illustrate when they need to complete their individual tasks.

• They can demonstrate how their individual tasks connect to other tasks in the project

During a Retrospective, you discover that your team cannot deliver the product on schedule because you set an unrealistic expectation with your stakeholders. What can you do to ensure a healthy roadmap management plan going forward? Select all that apply.

• Promote knowledge sharing between the Product Owner and the Development Team.

• Agree up front about how to handle new ideas and opportunities.

• Simplify the roadmap by scaling back the project scope.

• Hold regular roadmap reviews with the entire team.

Associate the project phase to core tasks in a typical project LC: Create list of individual tasks

• initiating

• planning

• executing

• closing

In which project phase does it help to ask questions such as: “Who are the stakeholders?”, “What skills and resources will the project require?”, and “What are the client’s or customer’s goals?”

• Initiate the project

• Close the project

• Execute the project

• Make a plan

How does tracking and measuring progress benefit a project? Select all that apply.

• Builds confidence that the project will finish on time, in scope, and within budget

• Helps team members and stakeholders stay on top of deadlines and goals

• Disregards new risks so the team can focus on current tasks

• Makes project information transparent

Agile project management works well with projects that take an iterative approach. What does this mean? Select all that apply.

• The team operates within many short blocks of time

• Project processes are repeated many times during the life cycle of the project

• Project deliverables improve continuously based on feedback

• The project will take longer to complete

What can you do to determine if a goal is relevant?

• Ask a project manager on another team.

• Consider if the goal matches the organization’s other needs and priorities.

• Compare it to the project goals of the organization’s three closest competitors.

• Compare it to goals the organization set in previous years.

Fill in the blank: _____ is the method where a project manager reviews all individual tasks and rolls the tasks into manageable chunks that lead to a milestone.

• Top-down scheduling

• Goal scheduling

• Team scheduling

• Bottom-up scheduling