PMP · Question #298
A project manager has been selected to deliver one of an organization's key flagship solutions. Critical success factors include agility, market adaptation, and a quick response to market offerings. W
The correct answer is D. Conduct periodical reviews of the project plans, objectives, and deliverables to ensure all relevant. To ensure success for a flagship solution requiring agility and quick market adaptation, the project manager must regularly review project plans, objectives, and deliverables. This ensures ongoing alignment with evolving market needs and strategic goals.
Question
A project manager has been selected to deliver one of an organization's key flagship solutions. Critical success factors include agility, market adaptation, and a quick response to market offerings. What is one of the key activities that the project manager should undertake to ensure company success?
Options
- ARequest more funding from the project sponsor to hire additional skilled resources and to
- BReview the project objectives with the project sponsor to agree on more realistic and achievable
- CCreate a business case after performing a market review, and then submit it to the sponsor to
- DConduct periodical reviews of the project plans, objectives, and deliverables to ensure all relevant
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A9% (2)
- B5% (1)
- C14% (3)
- D73% (16)
Why each option
To ensure success for a flagship solution requiring agility and quick market adaptation, the project manager must regularly review project plans, objectives, and deliverables. This ensures ongoing alignment with evolving market needs and strategic goals.
Requesting more funding or resources without first confirming the project's ongoing alignment with agile principles and market needs may not address the core requirement for quick adaptation.
Reviewing objectives for "more realistic and achievable" goals might indicate a deviation from the ambitious, market-driven nature of a flagship solution, rather than embracing agility.
Creating a business case is typically done before project charter approval to justify the project, not during execution to ensure ongoing success of an already selected project.
For a project requiring agility, market adaptation, and quick response, conducting periodical reviews of project plans, objectives, and deliverables is crucial. This iterative monitoring allows for continuous validation against market conditions and organizational strategy, enabling rapid adjustments to ensure the solution remains relevant and successful.
Concept tested: Agile project monitoring and control
Source: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp/agile-approach
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Community Discussion
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Viktor S.Apr 24, 2026D. The question is screaming agility and market adaptation, and periodic reviews are exactly how you keep a project aligned with shifting conditions instead of barreling ahead on stale assumptions. A and C are just throwing money or paperwork at the problem, and B sounds like quietly lowering the bar instead of actually adapting.
Orla P.Apr 27, 2026Agreed on D, and to add the logistics angle: if you see a question about review frequency on the exam, pay attention to whether it says periodic versus continuous, because that word choice is what separates a generic good-practice answer from the specific one they want.
Orla P.Apr 11, 2026D is correct here because the question keeps emphasizing market adaptation and quick response, which points straight to ongoing reviews rather than one-time upfront planning. Anyone know if the exam typically frames these periodic reviews as part of integrated change control or more under monitor and control project work?
Luis F.Apr 12, 2026Good catch on D, and in my experience the exam frames these periodic reviews under monitor and control project work since you are tracking progress against the plan, but the trick is they love to blur the line with integrated change control when the review actually triggers a change request.
Luis F.Apr 20, 2026D on exam. C is tempting but you already have a project, no need for a new business case.
Viktor S.Apr 21, 2026Agreed on D, but the real tell is that youre already funded and scoped, so the only question left is whether the proposed work fits what you already committed to deliver.