A key resource is switching between projects to obtain more visibility and acclaim. However, project work has grown and become a burden.
What should the agile project leader do?
The correct answer is C --- Ask management to ensure that the resource is available to only one project at a time.
Agile promotes dedicated, stable teams over multitasking. Task-switching reduces productivity and leads to context-switching overhead. If a key resource is overburdened and switching between multiple projects, the best solution is to secure focused commitment by escalating to management for support.
PMI Agile Practice Guide:
''Agile teams should be dedicated and work on one project at a time. Splitting attention across multiple efforts reduces velocity and quality due to context switching.''
(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 6.1 -- Team Composition)
Mike Griffiths highlights:
''Effective agile teams are stable, long-lived, and dedicated. Shared resources create bottlenecks, undermine predictability, and impair team dynamics.''
(PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 4 -- Team Performance)
Incorrect options:
A may solve bandwidth issues but not focus or ownership.
B addresses symptoms, not the core issue of divided focus.
D tolerates a harmful practice that contradicts agile team stability.
Answe r: C
What should the agile project manager do?
Gold-plating---adding extra features not requested or prioritized---is an anti-pattern in agile. Agile emphasizes delivering the highest-priority features first, and product changes should always go through the Product Owner for prioritization and validation.
According to the PMI Agile Practice Guide (Section 5.1: Backlog and Value Delivery) and Mike Griffiths' PMI-ACP Exam Prep Book (Chapter 6: Value-Driven Delivery), when capacity is available, the team should pull more stories from the prioritized backlog, ensuring that all work aligns with stakeholder-defined value.
Option D is correct: confirm backlog priority and use time to deliver customer-prioritized value.
Option A supports scope creep.
Option B is partially correct but doesn't optimize the time to deliver value.
Option C perpetuates gold-plating and undermines value alignment.
The manager of the team is responsible for delivering a specific initiative within the organization. They are preparing for the monthly project review meeting, where they will present the current state of this initiative. The agile project lead sends the manager the following email with the initiative's current status.
Which summaries are correct and will be presented during the monthly project review? (Refer to
the email and exhibits to the Team Manager)
Step 1: Identifying Remaining MVP Story Points
From the backlog, the MVP-related stories that are not started include:



Total remaining MVP story points = 4 + 21 + 5 = 30
Step 2: Projected Sprint Completion



Midway through an iteration, an agile team learns that a team member will be unavailable for the next two iterations. As a high-performance team, what should the team do?
The correct answer is D -- Assume the team member's tasks to meet iteration goals and notify the Product Owner. Agile teams are self-organizing and accountable. High-performing teams take ownership of shared goals and redistribute work as needed to maintain commitment.
From the PMI Agile Practice Guide:
''High-performing agile teams collaborate to deliver sprint goals, adapting to changes such as unavailability of team members. They adjust workload and communicate impacts transparently.''
(PMI Agile Practice Guide, Section 4.3 -- Team Performance and Self-Organization)
Mike Griffiths explains:
''When team composition changes, the team must redistribute work to ensure delivery. Ownership, trust, and flexibility are core traits of high-performing agile teams.''
(Mike Griffiths, PMI-ACP Exam Prep, Chapter 4 -- Team Performance)
Incorrect options:
A signals dysfunction and abdicates team responsibility.
B implies external management of team staffing.
C violates the principle of self-organization.
A product roadmap should contain which of these primary components?
A product roadmap is a strategic plan that outlines the vision for the product, the business objectives that need to be achieved, and the timeframes for delivering key milestones or features. It provides a high-level overview of the product's development, aligning the team and stakeholders on the product's direction and the expected delivery timeline.
Product vision defines what the product aims to achieve and the value it will deliver to customers or the business.
Business objectives outline what the product aims to accomplish in terms of business impact, like increasing revenue or improving customer satisfaction.
Timeframes indicate when key milestones or releases are planned to occur, ensuring that progress can be tracked and expectations set.
This high-level structure is essential for guiding product development and keeping stakeholders aligned, without delving into the specific details of design or project management, which are more suited for other planning documents.
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