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Project scenario - Get fit with football!
(Note: The companies and people within the scenario are fictional)
Introduction
A Local Government Authority (LGA) has decided to organize a six-a-side football tournament. The
tournament will contribute towards achieving the targets set by a national initiative to improve the
fitness of children under the age of 16. As part of the LGA's policy of self-funding, this has to be
achieved at zero cost to the LGA (and therefore the local tax payer). The cost of the event will be
covered through fees paid by teams registered to take part in the tournament, sponsorship and
monies raised during the day. Any surplus would be used for the maintenance of local sports centres.
Teams can register under one of several age groups for both boys and girls. In addition, family
members are asked to attend to provide support.
This sports event is designed to be a family day out. The football tournament will have an event
village including a kidz'-zone, catering, car parking, mobile changing rooms and toilets. The
tournament will take place on the LGA-owned football pitches near the centre of the town, although
space is somewhat limited.
Scope
The initial scope of the project includes:
a marketing campaign to promote the event;
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Marketing - Additional information
The marketing campaign has two key areas to promote:
1. The event itself including the football tournament, event village and fundraising activities.
2. The LGA's long term aim to improve the fitness of children under the age of 16.
The Marketing Team has received some initial Scrum training but is unsure how it can be applied to
their marketing work.
The Marketing Team is keen that the project manager provides them with a clear brief for the
campaign before they spend too much time on it.
They have experience of working with a variety of marketing channels, although they are not sure
which channel(s) will work most effectively to promote this type of event, and in particular to
promote the LGA's longer term health aims.
The Marketing Team is not clear on the priority to assign to the two aims for the event.
The Marketing Team will publish advertisements and/or promotional material every week, with
more information in each issue to keep the message up to date.
Nine releases are scheduled at the end of each of the nine week-long timeboxes.
The nine timeboxes within the marketing work stream are scheduled to include:
advertisements:
a radio interview;
production of a hand-out/flyer;
banners and signs to put up around the town and at the event;
the provision of a website and social media content;
promotional posters to be displayed by local businesses.
Using the Project Scenario and Marketing Additional Information, answer the following question:
For which marketing product would a quality method of automated test-driven development be
MOST suited?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Marketing - Additional information
The marketing campaign has two key areas to promote:
1. The event itself including the football tournament, event village and fundraising activities.
2. The LGA's long term aim to improve the fitness of children under the age of 16.
The Marketing Team has received some initial Scrum training but is unsure how it can be applied to
their marketing work.
The Marketing Team is keen that the project manager provides them with a clear brief for the
campaign before they spend too much time on it.
They have experience of working with a variety of marketing channels, although they are not sure
which channel(s) will work most effectively to promote this type of event, and in particular to
promote the LGA's longer term health aims.
The Marketing Team is not clear on the priority to assign to the two aims for the event.
The Marketing Team will publish advertisements and/or promotional material every week, with
more information in each issue to keep the message up to date.
Nine releases are scheduled at the end of each of the nine week-long timeboxes.
The nine timeboxes within the marketing work stream are scheduled to include:
advertisements:
a radio interview;
production of a hand-out/flyer;
banners and signs to put up around the town and at the event;
the provision of a website and social media content;
promotional posters to be displayed by local businesses.
Using the Project Scenario and Marketing Additional Information, answer the following question:
For which marketing product would a quality method of automated test-driven development be
MOST suited?Options
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a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Website - Additional information
A new website will be built for the event. There are five work packages within this product:
1. Initial homepage:
Website showing the event details, competition rules, etc.
2. Team Registration functionality:
team name, player's names and ages;
contact information;
payment;
lunch pack requirements (includes any special dietary needs);
car parking requirements.
3. Social media promoting the event and its aims.
4. Applications (apps) to promote healthy lifestyles including fitness and healthy eating apps.
5. Health Park:
An online knowledge base about healthy lifestyles that includes a discussion forum.
The Website Team have a lot of experience in IT and have been using agile for several years. They are
delivering the website through five two-week timeboxes. The team uses a Scrum Master to facilitate
and the Scrum process and coach people accordingly.
The Website Team are very good at Scrum. They have created a set of tasks to assess more difficult
work and they refer to this as sprint zero.
Using the Project Scenario and Website Additional information, answer the following question:
The following assessment was made initially during the 'starting up a project' process:
'The Website Team is already using Scrum and it is expected that this team will be familiar with agile
techniques. However, the Staff Training Team is less familiar with the agile ways of working.'
Training on agile techniques was given to the Staff Training Team as a result of this assessment.
As part of the 'closing a project" process, the following observation was made:
'The Staff Training Team gained more understanding of what to fix and what to flex as the project
moved into Stage 3.'
Why should this observation appear in the end project report?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Staff Training - Additional information
The event will be supervised primarily by LGA staff volunteers. They will need to be trained in various
skills so that:
A . the event is carried out safely and professionally;
B . staff members are able to give advice on health and fitness.
This is covered by four work packages:
1. Training syllabus:
• High-level design of the manual.
• Content of each module.
2. Course content for safety and professionalism:
• Detailed design of two modules:
• Health and Safety including basic first aid.
• Customer relations to look after people attending the event.
• Piloting the modules with a group of volunteers.
3. Course content tor giving advice on health and fitness:
• Detailed design of two modules:
• Exercise fundamentals including how to warm up and cool down.
• Healthy eating including what types of food are good for you.
• Piloting the modules with a group of volunteers.
4. Training delivery:
• Production of the training manual;
• Delivery of the training to the rest of the volunteers.
The Staff Training Team is staffed by in-house training staff members that have been involved in
several waterfall projects but have not had any exposure to agile.
Using the Project Scenario and Staff Training Additional information, answer the following question:
The Staff Training Team had been working to the following assumption:
'All volunteers will be trained in all training materials.'
Quite late in the project, it has been identified that this assumption is incorrect. As a result, the team
manager produced a chart of who needs to be trained in what modules. This was agreed with a
customer representative and the team manager made the necessary amendments to the
requirements in the backlog within the current timebox.
What BEST explains why the team manager's approach complies with the 'embrace change' target?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Marketing - Additional information
The marketing campaign has two key areas to promote:
1. The event itself including the football tournament, event village and fundraising activities.
2. The LGA's long term aim to improve the fitness of children under the age of 16.
The Marketing Team has received some initial Scrum training but is unsure how it can be applied to
their marketing work.
The Marketing Team is keen that the project manager provides them with a clear brief for the
campaign before they spend too much time on it.
They have experience of working with a variety of marketing channels, although they are not sure
which channel(s) will work most effectively to promote this type of event, and in particular to
promote the LGA's longer term health aims.
The Marketing Team is not clear on the priority to assign to the two aims for the event.
The Marketing Team will publish advertisements and/or promotional material every week, with
more information in each issue to keep the message up to date.
Nine releases are scheduled at the end of each of the nine week-long timeboxes.
The nine timeboxes within the marketing work stream are scheduled to include:
advertisements:
a radio interview;
production of a hand-out/flyer;
banners and signs to put up around the town and at the event;
the provision of a website and social media content;
promotional posters to be displayed by local businesses.
Using the Project Scenario and Marketing Additional information, answer the following question:
Which approach BEST outlines how to apply the 'continued business justification' principle during the
initiation stage?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Marketing - Additional information
The marketing campaign has two key areas to promote:
1. The event itself including the football tournament, event village and fundraising activities.
2. The LGA's long term aim to improve the fitness of children under the age of 16.
The Marketing Team has received some initial Scrum training but is unsure how it can be applied to
their marketing work.
The Marketing Team is keen that the project manager provides them with a clear brief for the
campaign before they spend too much time on it.
They have experience of working with a variety of marketing channels, although they are not sure
which channel(s) will work most effectively to promote this type of event, and in particular to
promote the LGA's longer term health aims.
The Marketing Team is not clear on the priority to assign to the two aims for the event.
The Marketing Team will publish advertisements and/or promotional material every week, with
more information in each issue to keep the message up to date.
Nine releases are scheduled at the end of each of the nine week-long timeboxes.
The nine timeboxes within the marketing work stream are scheduled to include:
advertisements:
a radio interview;
production of a hand-out/flyer;
banners and signs to put up around the town and at the event;
the provision of a website and social media content;
promotional posters to be displayed by local businesses.
Using the Project Scenario and Marketing Additional information, answer the following question:
The Marketing Team have noted in their daily stand-up that they cannot work out the versions and
review status of the information and photos which will appear on the website pages.
Which core practice might be the MOST useful to immediately help with the 'managing product
delivery' process?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Website - Additional information
A new website will be built for the event. There are five work packages within this product:
1. Initial homepage:
Website showing the event details, competition rules, etc.
2. Team Registration functionality:
team name, player's names and ages;
contact information;
payment;
lunch pack requirements (includes any special dietary needs);
car parking requirements.
3. Social media promoting the event and its aims.
4. Applications (apps) to promote healthy lifestyles including fitness and healthy eating apps.
5. Health Park:
An online knowledge base about healthy lifestyles that includes a discussion forum.
The Website Team have a lot of experience in IT and have been using agile for several years. They are
delivering the website through five two-week timeboxes. The team uses a Scrum Master to facilitate
and the Scrum process and coach people accordingly.
The Website Team are very good at Scrum. They have created a set of tasks to assess more difficult
work and they refer to this as sprint zero.
Using the Project Scenario and Website Additional information, answer the following question:
The Apps and Social Media work package includes the following requirements:
1. Fitness app - Must Have
2. Healthy eating app - Should Have
The burn-down chart is showing an ever-increasing negative gap between the ideal rate of progress
and what has actually been delivered. The team manager decided not to deliver the healthy eating
app. However, it is still forecast that requirement 1 cannot be completed within the current timebox.
The team manager escalated the issue to the project manager who instructed the team manager to
immediately remove the burn-down chart from the information radiator.
What BEST explains how this approach applies the 'manage by exception' principle while taking into
account the PRINCE2 Agile behaviours?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Website - Additional information
A new website will be built for the event. There are five work packages within this product:
1. Initial homepage:
Website showing the event details, competition rules, etc.
2. Team Registration functionality:
team name, player's names and ages;
contact information;
payment;
lunch pack requirements (includes any special dietary needs);
car parking requirements.
3. Social media promoting the event and its aims.
4. Applications (apps) to promote healthy lifestyles including fitness and healthy eating apps.
5. Health Park:
An online knowledge base about healthy lifestyles that includes a discussion forum.
The Website Team have a lot of experience in IT and have been using agile for several years. They are
delivering the website through five two-week timeboxes. The team uses a Scrum Master to facilitate
and the Scrum process and coach people accordingly.
The Website Team are very good at Scrum. They have created a set of tasks to assess more difficult
work and they refer to this as sprint zero.
Using the Project Scenario and Website Additional information, answer the following question:
The project manager is creating the stage plan for Stage 3. The project manager is trying to
incorporate the Team Registration work package into the stage plan.
How should the stage plan be produced?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Website - Additional information
A new website will be built for the event. There are five work packages within this product:
1. Initial homepage:
Website showing the event details, competition rules, etc.
2. Team Registration functionality:
team name, player's names and ages;
contact information;
payment;
lunch pack requirements (includes any special dietary needs);
car parking requirements.
3. Social media promoting the event and its aims.
4. Applications (apps) to promote healthy lifestyles including fitness and healthy eating apps.
5. Health Park:
An online knowledge base about healthy lifestyles that includes a discussion forum.
The Website Team have a lot of experience in IT and have been using agile for several years. They are
delivering the website through five two-week timeboxes. The team uses a Scrum Master to facilitate
and the Scrum process and coach people accordingly.
The Website Team are very good at Scrum. They have created a set of tasks to assess more difficult
work and they refer to this as sprint zero.
Using the Project Scenario and Website Additional information, answer the following question:
The project has been set up with multiple teams - one for each area of delivery. Each team has its
own team manager.
The LGA employee who is an expert in health has been appointed to act as customer representative
to all four of the delivery teams.
What BEST explains how this approach tailors the organization theme?
a celebrity to open the event;
a website to provide information about the event and handle applications;
an event village to support the 'family day out';
the training of LGA staff as volunteers to run and support the event;
back-office processes to handle the applications;
fundraising to cover the cost of the event.
The project has been set up with four work streams to deliver this work:
1. Marketing
2. Website
3. Event Village
4. Staff Training
Project Background
The LGA have extensive experience in using PRINCE2 and will run the event as a single project. The
project manager is fully conversant with PRINCE2 Agile. One office in the LGA building in the centre
of town has been given to the project for the entire duration. The office is across the corridor from
the Marketing Department and the project manager has already put a sign on the door that says
'Mission Control'.
Timeline
An initial timeline has been suggested and is shown in the following diagram. The timeline may
evolve due to the agile ways of working. The timeline shows how work streams are broken down into
work packages and/or timeboxes.
Marketing - Additional information
The marketing campaign has two key areas to promote:
1. The event itself including the football tournament, event village and fundraising activities.
2. The LGA's long term aim to improve the fitness of children under the age of 16.
The Marketing Team has received some initial Scrum training but is unsure how it can be applied to
their marketing work.
The Marketing Team is keen that the project manager provides them with a clear brief for the
campaign before they spend too much time on it.
They have experience of working with a variety of marketing channels, although they are not sure
which channel(s) will work most effectively to promote this type of event, and in particular to
promote the LGA's longer term health aims.
The Marketing Team is not clear on the priority to assign to the two aims for the event.
The Marketing Team will publish advertisements and/or promotional material every week, with
more information in each issue to keep the message up to date.
Nine releases are scheduled at the end of each of the nine week-long timeboxes.
The nine timeboxes within the marketing work stream are scheduled to include:
advertisements:
a radio interview;
production of a hand-out/flyer;
banners and signs to put up around the town and at the event;
the provision of a website and social media content;
promotional posters to be displayed by local businesses.
Using the Project Scenario and Marketing Additional information, answer the following question:
The senior user has specified a second charity to which any proceeds should be donated. All
marketing material to be used from now onwards must promote the new charity. Banners promoting
only the first charity have already been produced, delivered and approved in a previous timebox. The
effort to add the new logo to the existing banners is low.
How should the Marketing Team respond to this change with respect to the banners already created?