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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? ✔Correct Answer-Agile and Kanban are subsets of Lean
because they are named instances of Lean thinking.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Train the team members in
the fundamentals of the Agile Mindset and principles.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Agile techniques and approaches effectively
manage disruptive technologies, scope changes and project risk.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Show Anu how you have
had success in the past using Agile approaches and why they are better.
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? ✔Correct
Answer-Trying the new techniques on a less risky pilot project.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Frequent retrospection and selecting
improvements.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Using a hybrid model; Agile approaches for the design
phase followed by a predictive approach for the rollout.
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? ✔Correct Answer-Efficient and effective communication.