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1. A software vendor has recently hired you to manage some of its key projects. During your orientation at the organization you were told that the organization has recently adopted Agile practices for project management. A chart was then shown to you where Agile and Kanban were shown as subset of Lean. What is your view on this?

The chart is wrong because Agile, Kanban and Lean are three different approaches to project management.
The chart is wrong because Kanban is a subset of Lean while Agile is not.
The chart is wrong because Agile is a subset of Lean while Kanban is not.
Agile and Kanban are subsets of Lean because they are named instances of Lean thinking.

2. You have recently been hired by a major airport operator to head its project management office. The PMO has been following a waterfall-based project management approach consistently across all projects. You want to pilot Agile approaches on a couple of new projects and see how these approaches can benefit the organization. However, the team members are not experienced in the use of Agile approaches. What should you do first?

Train the team members in effectively using the Kanban approach.
Train the team members in effectively using the XP approach.
Train the team members in the fundamentals of the Agile Mindset and principles.
Train the team members in effectively using the Scrum methodology.

3. You have been assigned a new project. The project involves disruptive technologies. The project scope is not clear which has introduced a lot of risk into the project. You have requested to use Agile to manage this project. Why?

Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage disruptive technologies, scope changes and project risk.
Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage project risk.
Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage scope changes.
Agile techniques and approaches effectively manage disruptive technologies.

4. You are an Agile process analyst and are assigned to work for Anu who is leading a complex Student Services Design project for a university. Anu insists that the team create highly detailed project plans before commencing the work. What should you do?

Show Anu how you have had success in the past using Agile approaches and why they are better.
Escalate the issue to the project sponsor.
Brush up your resume and start applying for external jobs.
Put your foot down and don’t compromise on Agile values and principles.

5. When introducing Agile methods to an organization that has historically managed all its project using predictive life cycles, which of the following approaches is more likely to succeed?

Trying the new techniques on high-value projects.
Trying the new techniques on a less risky pilot project.
Trying the new techniques on completed projects.
Trying the new techniques on ongoing projects.

6. A project team is currently building a warehouse management system. Due to the complexity of the project and ambiguous requirements, the team decided to adopt an Agile management approach. If a higher rate of management process improvement is required by the project team, which of the following can help achieve this objective?

Adopting XP for the development phase.
Deferring the development until all requirements have been collected.
Frequent retrospection and selecting improvements.
Using a Kanban board to enable visual management.

7. You are responsible for designing a new handheld gadget followed by a mass rollout to the market. The project has been requested as a result of your organization’s blue ocean strategy, and if successful, will create a market for its own. However there is a high degree of uncertainty around the requirements which can only be uncovered through prototyping. Which of the following approaches is most likely to succeed?

Using a hybrid model; predictive approach for the design phase followed by an Agile approach for the rollout.
Using a hybrid model; Agile approaches for the design phase followed by a predictive approach for the rollout.
Using a predictive approach for both design and rollout.
Using an Agile approach for both design and rollout.

8. Your organization has been awarded a contract to develop and implement a new resource management system for a client based in Asia. Your development team is distributed across Europe. You are also planned to relocate the implementation team to the client location. What would be your biggest challenge in such a setup?

Monitoring project progress.
Efficient and effective communication.
Controlling project costs.
Documenting sprint retrospectives.

9. You are responsible for deploying a new supply chain management system for a client organization. You need to analyze the client organization’s current processes and procedures, design future-state processes in consultation with the subject matter experts at the client organization, and customize the supply chain system to suit these processes. According to the contract, all prototypes presented to the client must accompany user instruction sets. Your team is objecting to this documentation requirements and insist in developing a user manual only at the very end of the project. What should you do?

Negotiate with the team and convince them to develop comprehensive documentation before releasing any prototypes.
Accept the team’s demand; Agile Manifesto values working software over comprehensive documentation.
Negotiate with the client organization and convince them to drop the documentation requirement.
Let the team know that producing the user instruction set with the released prototype is a contractual requirement.

10. You have been hired by an organization to introduce Agile to its project management office. During one of your initial presentations to the team you have been asked a tough question: Is Agile an approach, a method, a practice, a technique, or a framework? What should be your response?

Agile is neither an approach nor a framework, however it contains some methods and techniques.
Agile is a framework that contains methods and techniques.
Any or all of these terms could apply depending on the situation.
Agile is an approach and not a framework, it contains methods and techniques.

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