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Project Management Questions and Answers
Contents 1.1. On a multinational project, which factor is most critical to efficient work? 1.2. What are the typical delivery execution challenges that haunt the management with a project team setup across geographies? 1.3. What are the advantages of the project Management software? 1.4. What is the importance of requirements gathering? 1.5. How do you test the requirements? 1.6. What are the reasons for investing in requirements? 1.7. What are some of the risks related to investing in requirements? 1.8. What are the project groups’ major concerns about stakeholders in discovering and specifying the requirements? 1.9. Tell me about a project that you were involved in that did not go well? What did you learn? 1.10. Do you think projects succeed or fail due to technical issues or user and management issues? 1.11. What are some of the classic people-related mistakes? 1.12. What are some of the classic process-related mistakes? 1.13. What are some of the classic product-related mistakes? 1.14. What are some of the classic technology-related mistakes? 1.15. What is scope creep? 1.16. What is feature creep and how can you control it? 1.17. What is project management? 1.18. Who are program managers? 1.19. What are the key qualities of a good program manager? 1.20. What are the responsibilities of a program manager? 1.21. Do you plan to produce a risk management plan? And how often do you intend to update the plan? 1.22. What is the best time to manage risks in your project? 1.23. How do you approach risk management? 1.24. What is a project risk? 1.25. How can I detect risks? 1.26. How can I analyze risks? 1.27. How can I prioritize risks? 1.28. What is a risk class? 1.29. What is the essence of risk management? 1.30. What role do project partners have in managing project risks? 1.31. How do you evaluate a project? 1.32. What is the single most important network feature in your project management communication system? 1.33. Please describe your program management experience? 1.34. What is change control? 1.35. How do you manage multiple projects? 1.36. What are the typical duties of a lead project manager? 1.37. What is a methodology? 1.38. Why use a methodology? 1.39. What is a process? 1.40. What is a procedure? 1.41. What is a technique? 1.42. What is the difference between methodology, technique and standard? 1.43. What is the difference between method and methodology? 1.44. What is the responsibility of a technical project manager? 1.45. What is the most valued and important trait of a project manager? 1.46. What is common in a project team? 1.47. What is the role of a project manager? 1.48. What are the top ten reasons projects fail or slip in time? 1.49. What are the top ten project management challenges? 1.50. What approach you follow for software estimation? 1.51. Why use more than one estimating processes? 1.52. What are the toughest challenges to the success of customer relationship management projects? 1.53. What are the most significant benefits of creating and maintaining a project management office? 1.54. What are the critical elements for a successful project office? 1.55. What are the major issues and challenges you face in implementing business process management? 1.56. What is the number-one reason projects succeed in your organization? 1.57. What characteristic do you value most in project team members? 1.58. What are the most important considerations in planning a major capital project? 1.59. What are the things you do to get projects back on track? 1.60. What does success in supporting project management as an operational function requires? 1.61. What would improve the quality of project management training in your organization? 1.62. Which aspect of your project management processes needs the most improvement? 1.63. Which planning method have you found yields the most accurate results? 1.64. What is the most important success criterion for a project? 1.65. Which project documentation do you find most vital for success? 1.66. What do you need most often from executive sponsors? 1.67. What is the most difficult aspect of controlling project costs? 1.68. What are the pros and cons of outsourcing project management? 1.69. What do you see as the greatest incentive for project team member loyalty within your company? 1.70. What is a bar chart? 1.71. What is benchmarking? 1.72. What do you mean by best practice? 1.73. What is brainstorming? 1.74. What is a charter? 1.75. What is competitive advantage? 1.76. Define quality. 1.77. Define efficiency. 1.78. What is empowerment? 1.79. What is a flowchart? 1.80. What is Gantt chart? 1.81. What is PERT chart? 1.82. What is task list? 1.83. What is work breakdown structure (WBS)? 1.84. What is gap analysis? 1.85. Define metrics. 1.86. What is repeatability? 1.87. What is segmentation? 1.88. What are the top ten mistakes in performance management implementation? 1.89. What steps has your company taken to optimize the efficiency of its business processes in the past 12 months? 1.90. What are the issues with aggressive goals? 1.91. What does upper management looks for in a project manager? 1.92. How important are people management skills for a project manager? 1.93. Why do you need to establish controls? 1.94. What are the rewards and stresses of project management? 1.95. What software packages you should know? 1.96. What is a critical path? 1.97. What is a deliverable? 1.98. What are dependencies? 1.99. What is a lag? 1.100. What is a milestone? 1.101. What is RAD? 1.102. What is JAD (Joint Application Development)? 1.103. What do you mean by resource constraint? 1.104. What to do if you do not have management experience? 1.105. What to do if your technology skills are out of date or differ from the prospective technical environment? 1.106. What questions to ask the interviewer? 1.107. What is the difference between duration and work effort? 1.108. How and why would you build dependencies into the project plan? 1.109. How would you incorporate a person’s work pace into the plan? 1.110. How would you incorporate training, holidays, and individuals’ education schedules? 1.111. How do you spread a task that occurs throughout the project requiring little time and effort, such as status meetings? 1.112. How are actuals supplied to the plan and what is the value of comparing the original estimates to actuals? 1.113. Why would you build a project plan? 1.114. How would you go about planning a project? 1.115. How would you go about building a project plan? 1.116. How do you determine staffing requirements? 1.117. What value does metrics add to the project? 1.118. How would you incorporate the use of a new technology into the plan? 1.119. What is the first thing you would do as a project manager? 1.120. How would you go about complying with the corporate directive to reduce your staff by 30 percent? 1.121. Your team is primarily junior-level people and you are behind schedule with a drop-dead deliverable date. What would you do? 1.122. How will you interface with the employee who expected the position you are applying for? 1.123. How much freedom would you give your employees in decisions and work style? 1.124. How would you deal with an “on-the-job-retirement” employee? 1.125. How would you deal with a consistently late employee? 1.126. How would you go about building morale in a cost cutting environment? 1.127. How would you go about hiring someone? 1.128. How would you resolve personality conflicts among team members? 1.129. How would you monitor/manage consultants? 1.130. How would you manage outsourced team members? 1.131. Why businesses outsource? 1.132. How would you work with an employee who seems to be consistently late on deliverables? 1.133. How would you keep the users involved and informed during each phase of the project? 1.134. How would you raise and resolve issues both within the unit and outside the unit? 1.135. How would you arrange and keep consistent support from support groups? 1.136. How would you deal with “if it ain’t broke” syndrome? 1.137. How would you deal with or manage a difficult business user who: refuses to commit to requirements, constantly changes his or her mind, refuses to spend time on the project, insists on an unrealistic deadline, requires stroking. 1.138. How would you work in an environment that implies that if you are not coding you are not working? 1.139. What is a life cycle and why do you need one? 1.140. Describe what development project life cycle phases, activities, and deliverables you would include in a project plan. 1.141. Where does prototyping fit in to the project life cycle? 1.142. How does client/server and mainframe development differ in a project life cycle? 1.143. How would you manage and ensure quality on a maintenance project? 1.144. How does object-oriented development differ in project management techniques from traditional development? 1.145. How would you divide your time between employee relations, project management, and paperwork? 1.146. What is the P-CMM? 1.147. What is standard deviation? 1.148. List tips for successful leadership. 1.149. List tips to manage successfully. 1.150. List tips for successful project management. 1.151. List steps for being an outstanding communicator. 1.152. List tips for business success. 1.153. Which project control functions need the most improvement? 1.154. What are the most urgent improvements your IT organization needs to make to support your business? 1.155. Describe a recent project where you were responsible for managing multiple people or teams. What were some of the key challenges and how did you handle those challenges? 1.156. Describe a time when you implemented a new idea without being asked or pursued a new opportunity that could improve the project or company. 1.157. Describe a scenario where you had to balance competing customer demands with project constraints. How did you ensure customer satisfaction while maintaining the goals of the project? 1.158. Describe a time when you had to balance quality management with a challenged project schedule. 1.159. Describe a time when you had a difficult situation working with a vendor or another peer. What was your approach to resolve the issues while maintaining a positive relationship? 1.160. What is a project? 1.161. Why do organizations do projects? 1.162. What is the project life cycle? 1.163. What is the project management triangle or the triple constraint? 1.164. What are the project baselines? 1.165. Who are the project stakeholders? 1.166. What is the project charter? 1.167. What is a deliverable in the project? 1.168. What is a project justification? 1.169. What is the requirements process? 1.170. What is a scope statement? 1.171. What is a work breakdown structure (WBS)? 1.172. How do I do a work breakdown structure? 1.173. What is scope change control? 1.174. What is a project estimate? 1.175. What terms are used in estimating? 1.176. What are estimating factors? 1.177. What is life cycle cost? 1.178. What is statistical cost estimating? 1.179. What is the difference between estimated cost and price? 1.180. What is the law of diminishing returns? 1.181. What is a cost improvement curve? 1.182. What is a network diagram? 1.183. What are the early start, early finish, late start, and late finish dates of a project schedule? 1.184. How do I make a project schedule? 1.185. What is float or slack in a project schedule? 1.186. What is a Gantt chart? 1.187. What k the PERT method? 1.188. What is a milestone chart? 1.189. What is a summary or hammock activity? 1.190. What is a resource histogram? 1.191. What is crashing and fast-tracking a schedule? 1.192. What is a buffered schedule? 1.193. What is the Monte Carlo process? 1.194. List marketing and sales tips. 1.195. Project Management Glossary
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