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Question #: 617
Topic #: 1

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A project manager receives an update that the development flow is not going well. Some team members cannot start their work because the delivery is late.
Looking at the Kanban board and the work in progress (WIP) lines, the project manager observes a bottleneck.
Click the title of the queue in the Kanban board below that requires additional resources to relieve the bottleneck.
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by [deleted] at Oct. 3, 2022, 3:25 p.m.

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Bobbie30

Highly Voted 2 years, 6 months ago

I have no idea what all of this means. Can someone please explain?

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iuedeme

1 year, 2 months ago

A Kanban board is used to reduce the amount of work in progress. Looking at the board, The Specification: team are resourced to handle 4 but there are only 2 task on its cue so its fine, Coding: are resourced for 5 but they already have 4 . The specification team being over resourced would soon push another task to them which would overwhelm them. Test: is a bit tight because the have 2 task/2 resources but adequately resource utilized. Document: are 3 task/ 5 resources. From a glance at the board, one could see the coding team needs help

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iuedeme

1 year, 2 months ago

Test resource needed

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Highly Voted 2 years, 8 months ago

I believe the "test" category should be selected as it seems to be the bottleneck here. The rest seem to have ample resources.

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Kim222

Most Recent 9 months, 2 weeks ago

ANSWER IS TEST

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1 year ago

The answer is Test 2

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certificate988

1 year, 6 months ago

More testing resource needed as Test is blocked.

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Alacosta74

1 year, 7 months ago

This makes no sense to me.

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Only12go

1 year, 7 months ago

Given this, the "Test" column is the only one that's at its maximum WIP limit, which could suggest it's where the bottleneck is occurring. If items aren't moving from the "Test" column to the "Document" column efficiently, it could delay subsequent tasks from entering the "Test" stage. To alleviate this potential bottleneck, the project manager might consider allocating additional resources to the testing phase or revising the testing process to ensure tasks move through more swiftly.

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janojano

1 year, 8 months ago

Test because this column has x2 items max and has two already, therefore no items can be pulled from the previous column until one is moved out from 'test' to 'done'

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victory108

1 year, 8 months ago

Test one queue

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Dawn6699

1 year, 12 months ago

Why not Test?

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Graceadel

2 years, 2 months ago

test for sure Bobbie30 the kanban shows the maximum number of items that can be in the different queues. For test its 2 and they have 2 in the queue meaning nothing new can be added even *if cost can finish one item it will have to be kept at the buffer. Code can have max 5 items they have 4/5 in the queue so they not causing a bottleneck just as yet

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leo_gold

2 years, 5 months ago

I will go with the TEST too - When you divide # of task by # resources you get the largest number between all categories. (Tasks are the squire) (Resources are the small number under each category)

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Franco11

2 years, 7 months ago

The test Category

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