During a demo and review meeting, the progress report shows that an agile project is not on track. The project manager is surprised, because all work was purposely selected and sequenced to meet higher-level objectives. What should the project manager have done to prevent this miscommunication?
a) Trained and mentored the team on using the agile approach
b) Created a contingency reserve
c) Engaged the team to record the agile progress reporting system
d) Encouraged the team to self organize and provide buy-in to the project Saving Changes...
I'm not very impressed by the question or any of the answers. The fact that the PM is surprised suggests that the PM hasn't been paying attention but the possible answers suggest that there's a problem with what the team are doing! I guess the expected answer is a.
Another problem with the question is that the purpose of a review should be to communicate with the customer and get their feedback. What the customer thinks of progress is what matters here. Saving Changes...
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Just because a project is not "on track" doesn't mean a major milestone or deadline will be missed. For example, if a team is following Scrum, the sprint backlog represents a forecast and not a commitment so it is possible that there might be some work items left incomplete at the end of a sprint and this could happen for many different reasons.
There's nothing to indicate the team is not educated in agile practices, nor that they were not keeping work boards or other visualization and tracking information radiators updated.
There's also nothing saying the team is not self-organizing or that they don't support the project.
And a contingency reserve is there to protect your financial baseline from the impact of realized risks. Usually the term "buffer" is used if we are referring to schedule reserves.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
In principle, I agree with Kiron‘S feedback but if I am to chose an answer, I would choose D. Saving Changes...
Alexandre CostaScrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologiesLoures, Portugal
Indeed the members insist in put the questions here instead of the appropriate place.
I agree with @Kiron and @Rami all answers are bad, if i had to choose one I would choose D like @Kiron Saving Changes...
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