Exam 7: Monitoring and Controlling the Project

In Agile, the product backlog and sprint backlog are key scrum artifacts that contain the complete list of the requirements for the product being developed or improved and the requirements to be completed in the current sprint.

Project review meetings are always important.

Which of the following is not an objective mentioned in the text for data gathered from monitoring?

What actions can you take to help avoid the common problems associated with meetings?

Earned value is a measure of overall project progress in terms of performance, budget, and schedule.

State the formula for CPI. Explain what CPI means and its relevance to monitoring and controlling a project.

The accountants of Junis Plex, a textile company, used to calculate the company's taxable income manually. However, the management recently adopted a software program that requires only few inputs from the accountants which automatically calculates the taxes owed by the company. The management releases a report for all its operations managers that provides specific instructions on how to use this software. Which of the following types of reports has Junis Plex used to inform its project managers of the new software program?

Frequent blame is considered a good motivational tool to keep project team members on track.

Explain why project monitoring and control can be thought to be opposite sides of project selection and planning.

The SPI is calculated as…

In order to manage for overall project success, control should be exercised at a very high and aggregated level and not get bogged down with unnecessary details.

List the benefits of reports beyond the purpose of control.

There is no satisfactory way to measure accurately the percent of completion of most tasks.

Renuit Mec, a footwear manufacturing company, produces 10,000 shoes per day. In an average, about 200 shoes have more than one defect. However, the company has found that its newly installed machines are producing more defective products than the older machines. In order to prevent the production of more defective products, Renuit Mec releases a report to its employees asking them to stop using the newly installed machines. In this scenario, Renuit Mec most likely released a(n) _____.

The sprint retrospective is held between the sprint review and the next sprint planning meeting.

What is the best way to estimate percent completion of activities for finding earned value?

There is some optimum amount of resources worth investing in the control process.

Control is one of the project manager's easiest tasks since reports lay out exactly what is out-of-control.

It is often the case with particularly challenging or uncertain projects that the planning-monitoring-controlling effort is minimized so that the "real work" can be done.

Why is control difficult?