Project Mistletoe: the Christmas Escape

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Project Mistletoe: the Christmas Escape

Embark on a holly-jolly adventure filled with mind-bending puzzles and merry riddles. Help Santa answer questions related to project timelines, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and change implementation. Each correct answer brings you one step closer to decorating the Christmas tree and escaping the room. But beware, the clock is ticking like Santa's sleigh!

Make enough toy for the children this Christmas.

Make enough toys for the children this Christmas.

Make toys for the children this Christmas.

Final gift

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The setting

1.Baubles

Final gift

4.Bows

3.Lights

2.Stars

Missions

Storming

Santa´s elves have been working together for a while. Until recently, they used to frequently argue and disagree but now they are finding ways to cooperate. Tell Santa in what stage they are, referring to Tuckman´s theory.

Question 1

Forming

Norming

Performing

Meet toy targets.

Make toys for all children who sent letters to Santa by Christmas eve.

Question 2

Make enough toys for the children this Christmas.

Deliver all toys to children who requested them by Christmas.

Choose the best objective for Santa's elves.

Make children across the world happy.

Increase popularity.

Question 3

Deliver presents on time.

Deliver more presents than last year.

Choose the best project outcome for Santa´s presents delivery.

All reindeer will be available to deliver the presents.

Question 4

The North Pole workshop will produce a sufficient number of presents to meet the anticipated demand.

Bad weather may present obstacles to the delivery.

The Naughty and Nice List is accurately maintained and updated, ensuring that presents are delivered to deserving children.

Which one is NOT a suitable assumption for Santa's project?

Hybrid

Waterfall (with overlapping phases)

Waterfall (no overlapping phases)

Question 5

Agile

What project lifecycle would you recommend for Santa's project?

continue

Gifts to decorate!

back

Incorrect!You get coal.

1.Baubles

4.Bows

3.Lights

2.Stars

Final gift

Missions

Santa is implementing a new supply chain optimisation programme. What type of change is that?

Incremental

Transformational

Transition

Hammer

Question 1

Whats the purpose of the Hands Model?

To communicate the change

To decide how to implement the change

To define the vision

To scope the change

Question 2

Santa is running a project introducing automation in toy production. He is disseminating results from the pilot to show the efficiency of the new method. Which step of the Kotter model do you think that is?

Communication for buy-in

Enable action

Create short-term wins

Increase urgency

Question 3

Where would you position the Grinch on the Power/Interest matrix?

Low interest/Low power

High interest/Low power

High interest/High power

Low interest/High power

Question 4

The new automation system is upsetting the elves. They are going on strike to negotiate the delay of its implementation. Where on the change curve are they?

Denial

Bargaining

Anger

Depression

Question 5

continue

Gifts to decorate!

back

Wrong!

Bad kidslist

1.Baubles

4.Bows

3.Lights

2.Stars

Final gift

Missions

Which of the following statements best describes the concept of scope creep in Santa's project?

Reindeer practicing additional flight maneuvers for improved sleigh navigation

Not delivering presents to all good children.

Santa expanding his gift delivery route beyond the initially planned locations

Question 1

Elves working overtime to meet gift production targets

What tool would you recommend to Santa to ensure that the toys produce match up with what the children have requested?

Acceptance criteria

Quality assurance plan

A checklist

Question 2

Collecting requirements

Santa built a snowman. Now, the temperature is 3°C and the snowman is melting. On average, it would take it a day to melt. However, if the temperatures drop again it would take 3 days. If the temperatures increase further, it would only take half a day. Using PERT, what is your estimate for how long it would take?

2 days

30 hours

18 hours

Question 3

1 day

Finish to Start

Santa's elves need to design the toys, build them, paint them and inspect the quality. While these tasks are done one after the other, the elves do not wait for the task to be completed for all toys before progressing to the next task. What type of dependency is that?

Start to Finish

Finish to Finish

Start to Start

Question 4

Help Santa identify which tasks are critical.

A, C, H

B, D, H

F, G

Question 5

F, E, G

Gifts to decorate!

continue

back

Incorrect!You lose gifts.

1.Baubles

4.Bows

3.Lights

2.Stars

Final gift

Missions

Santa's project team has identified a potential risk related to adverse weather conditions, which could affect the efficiency of gift deliveries. To manage this risk, the team decides to implement a contingency plan. What type of risk response strategy does this represent?

Risk mitigation

Risk transfer

Risk avoidance

Risk acceptance

Question 1

Find the clue and help Santa estimate the amount of money he needs to put in risk contingency.

£50,000

£95,000

£15,000

£80,000

Question 2

In Santa's gift delivery project, the team has a planned value (PV) of delivering gifts to 10,000 houses by Christmas Eve. However, due to unexpected delays, they've only managed to deliver gifts to 8,000 houses so far. The actual cost (AC) incurred for the project is £150,000. If each gift delivery (1 per hours) was budgeted at £20, what is the Earned Value (EV) at the current project stage?

120,000

100,000

200,000

160,000

Question 3

Release resources

Some things did not go as planned in this year's presents deliery. Santa wants to make sure that these failures are used to ensure better performance next year. What should he do?

Draft lessons learned

Have a project review

Close the project

Question 4

While all children got presents last year, hence meeting the objective of Santa's project, not all of them received the presents they requested. That resulted in low levels of satisfaction. What can Santa do to ensure that the benefits are realised in future?

Give unhappy children more presents

Implement a monitoring system to ensure that each child receives the correct present

Collect feedback

Nothing, the objectives of the project were achieved

Question 5

Gifts to decorate!

continue

back

Incorrect!Smokey chimney.

1.Baubles

4.Bows

3.Lights

2.Stars

Decorate

Missions

Merry Christmas!

Do you want to leave without decorating your Christmas tree?

exit

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The production of the toys is a dynamic process. Toys require frequent changes and improvements until they meet the requirements. The elves use a Kanban board to assign the tasks on which everyone is working. The toys are delivered in incirements. The delivery of the toys, on the other hand, is much more traditional. It follows a structured approach, complying with a set route and fixed milestones and deadlines.

Santa has left a clue for you

Who is the Grinch?

The Grinch is a fictional character depicted as a green, furry, pear-shaped, snub-nosed humanoid creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality. He has spent the past 53 years living in seclusion on a cliff, overlooking the town of Whoville. In contrast to the cheerful Whos, the Grinch is misanthropic, ill-natured, and mean-tempered. Though always hateful, he especially hates the Christmas season, making particular note of how disturbing the various elements of Christmas time are to him. Unable to stand the holiday any longer, he decides to destroy it once and for all. Aided by his pet dog, Max, he meticulously designs a red suit to disguise himself as Santa Claus and breaks into the Whos' homes on Christmas Eve while they sleep to steal everything they own, right down to the last crumb of food they have, and dump it off of a nearby mountain. Although he pulls off the theft successfully, on Christmas morning, he is shocked to hear the Whos still singing cheerfully, happy simply to have each other. He then realizes that the holiday has a deeper meaning that he never considered. Inspired, he stops the Whos' belongings from falling off the edge of the mountain, and in the process, his heart grows "three sizes". He returns all the gifts he stole and gladly takes part in the Whos' Christmas celebration.

Santa's project team has identified a risk related to potential delays caused by unexpected weather disruptions during the gift delivery phase. The risks is 80% likely and would cost them £100,000 if it materialises, as well as it would lead to a lot of unhappy children who may stop believing in Santa - what a disaster! Therefore, Santa has chosen to use an alternative route avoiding the bad weather. There is still some risk that some areas would not be reached. The team estimates a 30% probability of the risk occurring, with potential additional costs of £50,000 if the risk materialises.

The clue