Is Your Project Management Style 'Agile'?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  You're the Project Manager. You've hired in a £1000 per day developer. Do you:

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  • A.
    Provide a detailed design specification and monitor them hourly to ensure value
  • B.
    Present them with a set of requirements and let them get on
  • C.
    Quickly train up as a developer and buy a Bugatti
• 2.
  You're Project Manager. The Development Team are planning their next chunk of detailed work. Do you:

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  • A.
    Collaboratively help them plan, making the best use of their collective skills 
  • B.
    Liaise with Operations to ensure the production server upgrade is on time for the currently-in-development software increment
  • C.
    Wonder why 'Team-work' stock-art is so cheesy
• 3.
  You're PM: The project is a standard endeavour but the organisation once had a problem on a similar one. Do you:

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  • A.
    Have the Development Team log every decision
  • B.
    Log every Development Team decision yourself to free them up
  • C.
    Recommend that only higher risk tasks have formal logging
• 4.
  The hotel's architect has only specified the number of sockets per room on the drawing, not their position.

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  • A.
    The Hotel Manager should arrange an appointment to have the drawings revised
  • B.
    The Project Manager should organise a planning workshop
  • C.
    The Hotel Manager should attend with the electrician and point out where the sockets should be 
• 5.
  You're in the Development Team. You've decided to work the weekend to keep 100% of the features.

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  • A.
    An empowered team should make their own decision to work overtime
  • B.
    An agile project should fix time and cost, prioritising features as a form of contingency
  • C.
    Working extra hours to achieve goals strengthens a team
• 6.
  You're Project Manager: All the essential features are deployed. Has the project been a success?

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  • A.
    Yes. If the essential features are delivered then the project is a success
  • B.
    Maybe. Its important for the business to measure the actual value gained rather than just that deployment of the essential features has occurred
• 7.
  You're Project Manager. HR has asked you to re-evaluate your current training provider after seeing their cramped facility. Do you:

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  • A.
    Assume that your colleagues can keep their elbows to themselves, keep calm and carry on
  • B.
    Assume that as they are so expensive, they must be good
  • C.
    Worry that you've found the exact same event on the provider's 'other site' at half the price
  • D.
    Look for a provider who understands that training is about value and results rather than just making a vast profit and diverting it to an OFFSHORE ACCOUNT!

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Slow and steady can get you there in the end!

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  Okay, so you didn't do that great. At least you've made a start and while many of the 'agile' ideas are in the end common sense, applying them can take some thought. Hopefully from taking this quiz you'll have sparked your interest in all things agile. Contact us for more information - we're here to help in any way we can.
• 2.
  Practise makes perfect. Put in the effort and your next stop will be Ninja Warrior!

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  Good on you! You're already ahead of the curve with your agile project management insights. Don't stop now! Some organised study and you'll be running rings around the competition!
• 3.
  The Student has become The Master!

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  Excellent! Your agility knows no bounds. If you haven't already done so already then contact us now - gain your rightful certification!