What is a common strategy to shield a team from interruptions?

Designating a single point of contact to filter and prioritize external requests

Holding longer daily stand-up meetings to discuss all requests

Increasing the team's WIP limit to accommodate more requests

Encouraging stakeholders to contact team members directly for quick requests

After implementing a change to improve flow, what should the team do to evaluate its impact?

Compare flow metrics before and after the change

Increase the WIP limit to see if more work gets done

Immediately declare the change successful

Ask stakeholders for their opinion

Why is it important to have a designated point of contact for a team?

To assign blame when a request is not completed on time

To allow stakeholders to bypass the team's workflow

To provide a single channel for external requests, reducing interruptions

To ensure that all team members are equally accessible to stakeholders

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Task 7 Optimize Flow PMI-ACP Practice Questions (Page 6)

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Questions 26–30

26foundation · easy
What is a common strategy to shield a team from interruptions?
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27foundation · easy
After implementing a change to improve flow, what should the team do to evaluate its impact?
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28foundation · easy
Why is it important to have a designated point of contact for a team?
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29application · easy
A team has a WIP limit of 4 items and a throughput of 2 items per day. What is the average cycle time?
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30application · medium
A team currently has an average of 10 work items in progress and completes 5 items per week. After implementing WIP limits, the team reduces the average WIP to 6 items while maintaining the same throughput of 5 items per week. What is the new average cycle time?
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Task 7 Optimize Flow PMI-ACP Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

What is a common strategy to shield a team from interruptions?

After implementing a change to improve flow, what should the team do to evaluate its impact?

Why is it important to have a designated point of contact for a team?

A team has a WIP limit of 4 items and a throughput of 2 items per day. What is the average cycle time?

A team currently has an average of 10 work items in progress and completes 5 items per week. After implementing WIP limits, the team reduces the average WIP to 6 items while maintaining the same throughput of 5 items per week. What is the new average cycle time?

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