Predictive vs. Adaptive vs. Hybrid
Project Lifecycle Decisions
Agile Thinking and Iterations
Scrum in Action
Choosing the Best Project Strategy
100

A company is constructing a warehouse using approved blueprints, a fixed budget, and a detailed schedule. This project management approach is most appropriate.

What is the Predictive Approach?

100

A team creates a work breakdown structure, estimates costs, assigns resources, and develops the project schedule.

What is the Planning Phase?

100

Instead of waiting until the end of a project, a team regularly shows completed work to the customer and gathers suggestions. This important Agile practice is being used.

What is Continuous Customer Feedback?

100

A Scrum Team needs someone to order product requirements according to their importance and value. This person is responsible.

Who is the Product Owner?

100

A company must follow a fixed sequence of activities, completing one major phase before moving to the next. This approach is most appropriate.

What is the Waterfall Approach?

200

A hospital is building a new facility using a fixed construction plan but developing its patient scheduling software through repeated feedback cycles.

What is the Hybrid Approach?

200

A project has delivered its final product and received customer acceptance. The manager now documents lessons learned, archives records, and releases resources.

What is the Closure Phase?

200

A software team develops a small portion of an application, tests it, and improves it during the next cycle. This repeated cycle is called this.

What is an Iteration?

200

A Scrum Team is having trouble following Scrum practices and needs coaching to improve its effectiveness. This person helps the team.

Who is the Scrum Master?

200

A manufacturer wants to reduce production defects by analyzing data and improving its processes. This methodology would be appropriate.

What is Six Sigma?

300

A team is using a predictive approach, but the client begins requesting frequent changes that make the original plan unreliable. The project manager should consider doing this.

What is Reevaluating the Approach and Considering Adaptive or Hybrid Practices?

300

A team is actively building the project's deliverables according to the approved plan.

What is the Execution Phase?

300

A customer changes their priorities after reviewing the latest product increment. An adaptive team should respond by doing this.

What is Reevaluating and Reprioritizing Future Work?

300

At the beginning of a Sprint, the Scrum Team selects work to pursue and develops a plan for achieving its Sprint Goal. This Scrum event is taking place.

What is Sprint Planning?

300

A project manager wants a leadership approach that focuses on removing obstacles, supporting team members, and helping them succeed.

What is Servant Leadership?

400

A mobile app company expects customer requirements to change frequently and wants to adjust features based on feedback. This approach is most appropriate.

What is the Adaptive Approach?

400

A company evaluates whether a proposed project is worth pursuing and identifies its purpose before authorizing it.

What is the Initiation Phase?

400

A project team delivers small, usable parts of a product throughout development instead of delivering everything at the end. This is known as this.

What is Incremental Delivery?

400

During a Sprint, Developers meet briefly each day to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adjust their plan. This Scrum event is taking place.

What is the Daily Scrum?

400

A project has fixed legal requirements but uncertain customer preferences. The manager chooses structured planning for compliance and iterative development for customer-facing features.

What is the Hybrid Approach?

500

A project manager wants to select an approach based on how well requirements are understood, how likely they are to change, and how frequently customers can provide feedback. This is the process of doing this.

What is Selecting an Appropriate Project Management Approach?

500

A project manager compares actual spending with the budget, evaluates progress, and makes adjustments to address delays.

What is the Monitoring and Control Phase?

500

A project has uncertain requirements, rapidly changing customer expectations, and opportunities for frequent feedback. These conditions make this approach particularly effective.

What is the Adaptive Project Management Approach?

500

At the end of a Sprint, the Scrum Team and stakeholders inspect the product increment and discuss what to do next. This Scrum event is taking place.

What is the Sprint Review?

500

A Scrum Team repeatedly finishes Sprints without producing a usable product increment. To improve, the team should examine whether its selected work can be completed to the required quality standard within each Sprint. This Scrum concept defines that standard.

What is the Definition of Done?