Module 4 Challenge ( Agile Project Management ) Answers 2025

Q1. Ensuring the Agile Team “Runs It Right”

As a project manager, what questions can you ask your Agile team to ensure they “run it right”? (Select all that apply.)

• ✅ How will users get updates and new features?

• ❌ How can the product reach more users?

• ❌ What long-term value will this product give users?

• ✅ How will a user get support?

🔹 Explanation: Running it right means thinking about operations, updates, and support — not reach or strategy.

Q2. Purpose of the Product Vision in a Value Roadmap

What is the purpose of the product vision? (Select all that apply.)

• ❌ It defines an estimated schedule for development

• ❌ It defines a high-level view of product requirements

• ✅ It defines what the product is

• ✅ It defines who will use the product

🔹 Explanation: A product vision gives a clear picture of what the product is and who it serves — not its schedule.

Q3. Adding to a Release Plan

You create a release plan … what else can you add to help the team stay focused?

• Use cases for the features in the release

• Milestones for the development of future releases

• Feedback from stakeholders on the project timeline

• ✅ A backlog of items required for the release goal

🔹 Explanation: A backlog keeps the release tied to the goal and focuses the team.

Q4. Common Pitfalls of Product Roadmaps

What are some common pitfalls? (Select all that apply.)

• Conduct regular reviews of the roadmap with stakeholders and the team

• ✅ Pressure teams to achieve deadlines no matter what it takes

• ✅ Put more work into the roadmap than the deliverables

• ✅ Let stakeholders think the roadmap is set and unchangeable

🔹 Explanation: A roadmap must be flexible; overloading or treating it as fixed undermines agility.

Q5. Factors That Push Back a Release Plan Date

Which factors can push back your release plan? (Select all that apply.)

• ✅ Your team realizes an epic will take more time to complete than anticipated

• The school district increases the project budget and provides additional resources

• ✅ The Product Owner expands the project to include two additional school districts

• ✅ A member of your development team leaves to take a new job

🔹 Explanation: Scope changes, underestimation, and resource loss = longer timelines.

Q6. Creating Urgency

As a project manager … what are you trying to make the team feel?

• A sense of motivation

• ✅ A sense of urgency

• A sense of ownership

• A sense of alertness

🔹 Explanation: Showing competitor performance builds a sense of urgency to adopt change.

Q7. Six Sources of Influence Example

Weekly forms + reminder email — which source of influence?

• ✅ Structural ability

• Personal motivation

• Social motivation

• Personal ability

🔹 Explanation: Adding forms + reminders creates structural systems to influence behavior.

Q8. Boosting Morale & Quality

Your team is unhappy … what can you do? (Select all that apply.)

• Push back the next release date to give the team more time

• ✅ Change up the workflows by pairing people to work together on hard tasks

• ✅ Run a team brainstorm session to identify areas for improvement

• Take a training class on team dynamics and how to better work together

🔹 Explanation: Changing workflow + brainstorming = morale + quality improvements.

Q9. Avoiding Too Many or Unfounded Product Assumptions

What can you do? (Select all that apply.)

• ✅ Document assumptions and make them transparent to all

• Reuse assumptions from similar, past projects

• ✅ Conduct surveys or focus groups to double-check assumptions

• ✅ Discuss assumptions as a team

🔹 Explanation: Transparency + validation + collaboration = fewer false assumptions.

Q10. Core Values of SAFe

_Fill in the blank: Core values of SAFe are alignment and ___.

• Quantity

• Acceptance

• ✅ Transparency

• Frugality

🔹 Explanation: SAFe core values = Alignment, Transparency, Respect for People, Program Execution.

✅ Summary Table of Correct Answers

🔹 What learners need to do for full marks

• Always select both operational questions when asked about “running it right” (updates + support).

• Remember: Product vision ≠ schedule — it’s about what and who.

• For morale: workflow + brainstorming > pushing deadlines.

• Always check for validation + transparency in assumption questions.

• SAFe always = alignment + transparency.