Great Projects
This project built what is currently known as the oldest Wonder of the World and the only one of the seven substantially in existence today.
The Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops)
This PM manages a temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end to create a unique product, service, or result.
Project Manager
This conceptual framework is used to aid decision-making; it offers five decision-making contexts or "domains" from which to analyse behaviour and make decisions.
(500 points question)
Cynefin Framework
This prioritization technique name sounds similar to a well-known Russian city.
MoSCoW Prioritization (MoSCoW Method)
You are a PM in an outsourcing software development company. Your company is starting a new project and has assigned you to manage it. You have just finished working on a stakehloder register.
What should you do next?
Develop project charter. (According to Project Integration Management knowledge area, PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition.)
This project was one of the most-deadly projects in the human history with more than 120,000 deaths during its 11 years of development.
Suez Canal
This PM is sometimes referred to as a CEO of a product.
Product Manager
This lean method is used to manage and improve work across human systems by balancing demand with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks.
Kanban
This causal diagram shows the potential causes of a specific event while looking similar to a fish spine.
Ishikawa Diagram (Fishbone/Herringbone/Cause-and-Effect Diagram, or Fishikawa)
You are a PM on a project to construct an assembly line. The project is nearly complete. You close procurements, share the final project report, update the lessons learned repository, and obtain feedback from the relevant stakeholders.
What should you do next?
Transfer the completed assembly line to operations. (According to Close Project or Phase process, PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition.)
The goal of this program was to prepare and land the first humans on the Moon.
Project Apollo (The Apollo Program)
This PM manages several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance and achieving a strategic objective.
Program Manager
This software development framework is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements by focusing on five values and introducing twelve practices into day-to-day work.
Extreme Programming (XP)
This tool is used in risk management to respond to the “known unknowns”.
Contingency Plan (Contingency Reserve)
You are a PM for a large development project located in Dubai. The project is successful, and now in its closing phase. You are attending a "closing ceremony" on which your customer is giving a speech. At the end of his speech he mentions you and that a brand-new yellow Lamborgini Urus parked next to the venue is yours "as a reward for a great work you did".
What should you do next?
Politely refuse the gift publicly to avoid conflict of interest. (According to PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.)
This construction project took only six years to build the tallest structure in the world.
Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai)
This PM aligns projects, programs and operations with strategic objectives, investing resources in the right work to deliver the expected value.
Portfolio Manager
This is the most popular set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices. (According to 15th Annual State Of Agile Report published by digital.ai.)
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
This tool is used for categorising stakeholders in order to effectively manage them.
Power/Interest Grid (Power/Interest Matrix)
You are a PM on a software development project. While reviewing your project's performance, you discover a significant variance. If the issue is not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled. However, after a further review conducted by the project team, you are glad to hear that bringing the project back on track requires only a minor correction to a configuration element.
What should you do next?
Submit a change request. (According to Change Management approach, PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition.)
This exploratory project was originally estimated at $1-billion but ended up costing around ten times more.
James Webb Space Telescope
What does INVEST stand for?
(600 points total)
“I” ndependent (of all others), “N” egotiable (not a specific contract for features), “V” aluable (or vertical), “E” stimable (to a good approximation), “S” mall (so as to fit within an iteration), “T” estable (in principle, even if there isn’t a test for it yet)
This “barely sufficient” framework seeks to apply the principles and ideals of scrum in a large-scale enterprise context as simply as possible through defined rules and guides.
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
This iterative interrogative technique is used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem by simply asking the same question several times.
Five Whys
You are a PM on an Agile software development project. You are conducting a sprint retrospective in accordance with the communications management plan. The development team members want to try pair programming as they believe it will improve productivity by reducing rework. Even though you are very skeptical, you agree to implement the practice as you want to empower the team to be a self-managing unit.
What should you do next?
At the end of the upcoming sprint, revise the burndown chart, evaluate the productivity, and update the lessons learned register. (According to Continuous improvement concept, or kaizen, in Agile.)