PMP Question #1181: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

An agile team wants to maximize the work delivered for the upcoming project that involves considerable product complexity. What should the project manager do to help improve the team's collaboration approach?

Options

• AFocus on the team's engagement during the next retrospective meeting.
• BMeet with the human resources (HR) department to ask for team support.
• CFollow the process of the most successful team in the organization.
• DCompare the team's velocity with other teams in the organization.

Explanation

To improve an agile team's collaboration and maximize work delivery for a complex project, the project manager should focus on team engagement during retrospective meetings to identify and implement continuous improvements.

Common mistakes.

• B. Involving HR for "team support" is too vague and doesn't directly address improving collaboration within the agile framework; retrospectives are the primary mechanism.
• C. While learning from other successful teams can be beneficial, blindly following another team's process without adapting it to the current team's specific context and complexity may not improve collaboration effectively.
• D. Comparing velocity with other teams can be misleading and demotivating as each team has unique contexts and complexities; it doesn't directly improve collaboration but rather focuses on an external metric.

Concept tested. Agile retrospectives and continuous improvement

Reference. https://www.scrum.org/resources/scrum-guide#sprint-retrospective

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