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Module 1 Challenge :Agile Project Management (Google Project Management Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Agile iterative approach means… (Select all)

✅ Project deliverables improve continuously based on feedback
✅ Project processes are repeated many times during the life cycle
✅ The team operates within many short blocks of time
❌ The project will take longer to complete

Explanation:
Iteration = repeated cycles, short time blocks, and constant improvement—not longer timelines.


2. How can the team reduce documentation waste & ensure client satisfaction?

✅ Increase collaboration between stakeholders and the team
❌ Meet with the client only after every feature is fully tested
❌ Add more team members
❌ Add more planning iterations

Explanation:
More collaboration reduces unnecessary documentation and ensures customer alignment early.


3. Why value customer collaboration over contract negotiation? (Select all)

✅ Encourages including the customer during execution
❌ Saves time and money (not always guaranteed)
✅ Reinforces customer satisfaction as top priority
✅ Allows freedom to collaborate early and often

Explanation:
Agile prioritizes continuous customer involvement and feedback to build the right product.


4. What does value delivery mean in Agile? (Select all)

✅ Simplify and focus on what matters most
✅ Deliver products quickly and frequently
✅ Deliver highly valuable products to customers
❌ Save clients as much money as possible

Explanation:
Agile focuses on delivering value, not necessarily saving money.


5. Factors you face with no plans & fast-changing market (Select 3)

✅ Uncertainty and ambiguity
✅ Complexity
✅ Volatility
❌ Budget constraints

Explanation:
A new service with a changing market involves uncertainty, complexity, and volatility.


6. Why Agile succeeds better in VUCA than Waterfall? (Select all)

✅ Waterfall requires extensive planning and lacks flexibility
❌ Waterfall is too flexible (incorrect)
✅ Agile adapts and reacts to change
❌ Agile only works with certainty (opposite of true)

Explanation:
Agile thrives in fast-changing, uncertain environments.


7. What is the Product Owner responsible for? (Select all)

❌ Running the project meetings
✅ Providing the final say on prioritization
✅ Maximizing product value
✅ Owning the inventory of work (product backlog)

Explanation:
The Product Owner manages the backlog, prioritization, and product value.


8. Main Kanban board statuses (Select all)

✅ In progress
❌ Planning
✅ Done
✅ To do

Explanation:
Standard Kanban flow = To Do → In Progress → Done.


9. Retrospectives belong to which methodology?

❌ XP
❌ Kanban
❌ Lean
✅ Scrum

Explanation:
Retrospectives are a core Scrum event (Sprint Retrospective).


10. Remote developers & multiple prototypes — which approaches? (Select all)

✅ Iterative
❌ Waterfall
✅ Agile
✅ Scrum

Explanation:
Prototyping + continuous feedback = iterative + Agile/Scrum, not Waterfall.


🧾 Summary Table

Q# Correct Answer(s) Key Concept
1 Deliverables improve, processes repeat, short cycles Iterative Agile
2 Increase collaboration Waste reduction
3 Customer involvement, satisfaction, collaboration Agile values
4 Simplify, deliver frequently, deliver value Value delivery
5 Uncertainty, complexity, volatility VUCA
6 Waterfall rigid, Agile adaptable Agile vs Waterfall
7 Prioritization, backlog, maximizing value Product Owner
8 To do, In progress, Done Kanban workflow
9 Scrum Retrospective
10 Iterative, Agile, Scrum Prototyping environments