Project Manager Interview Guide (below)
Ask the interviewer's question:
Even if you get this position through the interview, you also need the information to be valuable, then you are your good opportunity. If this will be the first task of the project manager, this is especially the key. You need to understand your work environment. So you can ask the following questions:
1. What is company priority?
2. Who is the implementation of this project?
3. What is the development principle system used by the company?
4. What is the deadline of this project?
5. Is there a way to success in a measurement project?
6. How will your new manager keep project information Lingtong?
7. What is your new manager management philosophy and style?
8. What is the skill level of people on the project?
9. Will you fully define the scope of the project's project?
10. Is the technical environment have been selected?
The following is a problem that is usually asked in a typical project management interview (expectant answer):
A lot of questions the answer is subjective, the interviewer wants to know if your view is consistent with them and the company. The composition of the problem is as follows:
1. Project management software tool knowledge,
2. Develop the technology of the project plan,
3. Personnel management skills
4. Communication skills
5. Principles system knowledge (standard development lifecycle and project management).
Project Management Software Tool Knowledge
Question 1: What is the difference between construction period and workload?
Answer 1: The period of time is the number of days on the commercial / calendar, and has nothing to do with the number of people. The workload is a person who has nothing to do with the number of calendar days. E.g:
One day's workload is 50% of the people in the time at the time, his work is two days. If the two people work, the construction period is 1 day, and the workload is two working days.
Question 2: How do I consider the dependence when preparing a project plan?
Answer 2: Dependent relationship can be represented by using the software package used. Relationships illustrate the relationship / side request between tasks. The dependency can refer to another task must be completed before another task can begin. For example, the logical model must be completed before the physical model. But the test is not to start after all programming work is completed, and if there is no completed program has no effect on linear testing.
Project plans to join the dependencies, you can find the key path of the project and can determine its impact on the project duration.
Question 3: How do you combine people's work and plan?
Answer 3: According to the specific tool used, you can dismantle the resource into smaller resources / units, or you can remove the task into a smaller task.
Question 4: How do you combine training, holidays, and personal education schedules?
Answer 4: Each product has a company / global calendar that markedly not working. Each product also has a personal resource calendar indicating that individuals do not work. If the project needs education and training, we should write them in the project plan as the mission.
Question 5: How do you arrange similar state meetings throughout the project but just a minor time and workload tasks?
Answer 5: It will be as long as the entire project time, accounting for a small amount of workload. Everyone assigned to the task is very low in the time of this task.
Question 6: What is the fact that the role of the plan and the active predicted comparison?
Answer 6: In accordance with specific tools used, each tool enters independent elements / domain information in a live report. It is also possible to classify the report to the team members and other relevant groups to indicate the changes in key paths or adjustments to the timetable. These reports have valuable value for the evaluation of work and as input to the next project or phase. Another valuable use of the estimates and live reports is to record the impact of the range change on the project.
Skills for project plan
Question 7: Why do you develop a project plan? Answer 7: The project plan is a roadmap for implementing a successful system. It provides a means to inform everyone to do what they do and when they are finished. It helps the project manager to enable management, business users and support groups to understand the status and adjust special resources. The "list" of item by item is assisted to rapid evaluation of any changes. When the live report is linked to the plan, the project plan provides useful information for the task division and estimation of future projects.
Question 8: How will you start the project plan?
Answer 8: Process arrangement is an art. According to the facts known to business objectives, the company's general standards, as well as the past experience. It can begin with a clear definition of scope and goals. Do the risks and restrictions of the project. Poor estimates stem from lack of business knowledge and project scope. You can start from project task, such as first dividing phases, then define activities in each phase, and then define tasks in each activity. Identify and document milestones and deliverable products. The project plan is to continuously refine the life document when the information becomes available. Variety of progress is good for project managers, development teams, support teams, and management, business users.
Question 9: How will you start the project plan?
Answer 9: Enter the determined task under appropriate activities and stages or other summary standards. Connect the appropriate product and milestones and specific tasks. Connections all needs to rely on associated tasks. Add resource roles or resource names to each task. Application metrics determine the prior task workload, which uses more time for demand collection, design, and test. Consider all known holidays, training, vacation or other resource downtime. The draft plan will be reviewed with support groups, management and business users, as complementable inputs and final approvals.
Question 10: How to determine the needs? Answer 10: The planned development is not considered. Adding roles such as data model making, business analysts, and users next to the task. Plus the resource that can overlap the task overlapping the task. In the plan, we must consider the development team including the support team and the user representative to lose one or more resources, and add 15% of the margin to each task. To make the composition of the project team easy to understand, there must be an explanation of the technical level necessary for roles.
Question 11: What is the value of the measurement standard?
Answer 11: If you use it, the measurement standard is a valuable tool. They provide methods of determining the complexity and workload of the development system. The measurement results provide information input resources for the development project plan, and is a valuable historical information that determines the development direction. Software Measurements will help develop better software. However, it is best to have a history of 3 years.
Question 12: How do you use new technologies in the plan?
Answer 12: To increase the workload while increasing training tasks, narrowing each working unit. Additional prototypes and checkpoints (milestones) are added in the process of evaluating new technologies in development.
Personnel management skills
Question 13: What is the first thing you have to do as a project manager?
Answer 13: In addition to paying attention to the company's development direction and discovers its own development path, it is necessary to establish a priority of the project manager (business, company, project, team, personal, technical and methodological changes) in his mind. Therefore, and the department manager meets the priority order, arranges users and staff meetings to get the status report and evaluation of all members. It is important to handle business, projects and individuals.
Question 14: How will your staff reduce 30% Do you start to complete the company's project?
Answer 14: First, determine and distinguish the priority of the project, which projects must be completed within 18 months. Connect the absolute minimum total number with each project. Influence the impact on the progress table to managers and users. Because both may not be willing to accept the changes in the schedule, maybe you can give you some exceptions. It is good to lose the consultant than to remove an employee. Consultants for each project may be replaced by employees. Adhere to the use of learning curve theory and gradually reduce the number of consultants. You can reduce the work of some consultants from a week to 2 or 3 days in a week.
If the company has a list of retired ambitions in advance, look for some qualified and applicable employees. Keep in keeping in losing "old people" you may lose valuable knowledge. Combine a fast retired person and novice as much as possible.
To meet business objectives, identify the importance of the remaining employees and their importance in each project. Appropriate proportion of novices and experienced people. Both are to ensure that projects and companies continue to succeed.
Question 15: Your team is mainly composed of novice, and progress has been behind. What will you do?
Answer 15: Need to remember that a project is rarely canceled because there is no completion within the deadline. The project is canceled, mainly, such as missing funds, user support, or unsatisfactory business objectives.
Therefore, the first thing to do is training, whether in indoor or outdoor, in class or through a tape. Another additional method is to make a senior employee or senior consultant.
Conference for personal assessment and counseling. Help each employee accurately evaluate their own advantages and disadvantages. At the same time, the task is clear, and all the standards or guidelines necessary or guidelines that must be observed are clear. Provide each employee to the template obtained from a successful project as a guide, but also allow them to play their own talent. Work with them if needed. Fast feedback to any questions or completion tasks.
For larger tasks, look at their plans, help to determine if they understand the scope and goals of the task, in order to understand whether they can complete the task. Listen to the perspective of employees, maybe they will have the correct way and ways of completing the task. However, it is also necessary to prevent employees from caught in a dilemma of frustration and morale.
Question 16: How will you get along with employees who have the same position as you compete?
Answer 16: This is an unpleasant situation that often occurs. Employees always think they can compete for a position and management has not realized this. Therefore, we must carry out the following investigation:
Discover employee management capabilities
Read assessment and status report
Try to discover some of the work-related methods when the employee becomes uncomfortable, and some personal conversations are performed on this situation, including:
Make clear
To analyze his / her with employee, she has the qualifications that can make him / she get improved
Emphasis on how the necessaryity and management of the initial collaboration highly attaches great importance to cooperative relations
Question 17: How much freedom will you give you under decision and work?
Answer 17: The size of freedom depends on everyone's skills and professional levels. A good manager is "resulting" and can create an environment that enables the team to communicate widely. In any case, each employee needs to submit the status report related to the project and business goals every week and the manager should review. This facilitates strengthening organization construction and making every employee to work on their own work.
Question 18: How to treat employees who are about to retire?
Answer 18: An employee to retire will provide a lot of information. A person must think twice when all business knowledge and relationship network refused to think. Therefore, to take advantage of these people: they can serve as a teacher in some special skills. Clarify the principle of the main work, to make the project can make full use of these skills, you can use the necessary support from the informal way (no way to work through regular, bureaucratic approach)
Question 19: What do you do with a consistently late employee?
Answer 19: Good manager is to evaluate an employee through the results. However, it is also necessary to understand what is late in the company and team. A person is often late, people will feel that leaders are in private and will affect the team's morale. This person may be able to complete your own task on time but may affect the progress of others. Professional features include reliability. If the progress of others depends on their work schedule, then their progress is important for the entire team. First, it is first judged the mode of these employees. In other words, it is occasionally. Second, clarify the company's relevant counseling policies to determine late arrivals and their related processing methods. It is important to understand whether the employee works with the progress and understands that the person working with him is late to respond.
Finally, you must talk to them.
The theme of the conversation includes:
Company rules and regulations
Influence of team
Impact on individual evaluation
Emphasize time progress
Understanding
Question 20: How will you encounter when cost reduction?
Answer 20: Money is not only an incentive factor. People need to know if they have positive contributions to the project. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize the pride and hold business meetings, let users talk about their good impression on the project team. At the same time, let users put forward a generalization of their features and services. Training is an incentive factor. Therefore, the situation can be used as an informal training course. Internal seminars related to new technologies were hosted in disordered. If the training course is too expensive, a technical video tape can be leased. Subscribe to the magazine, there are many technical magazines for free. It is necessary to remember that ignoring training will make the team's spirit. This will affect the quality and quantity of the product.
Question 21: How do you hire people?
Answer 21: First do a description of the skills required for work. If you don't understand the current needs, it is difficult to hire suitable people. Next, we must understand the personality of team members. List the skills or work style of the team now. All of these situations are discussed with the Human Resources Department, including mobilizing existing employees. When the candidate arrives, it is an interview for existing work, but also understands if he has the skills needed to have a new post.
Question 22: How will you solve personal conflicts in the team?
Answer 22: Identify different individuals from people. The value of each style is expressed by the employee. An objective attitude should be held when discussing between the two sides of the conflict.
Question 23: How will you monitor / manage consultants?
Answer 23: Consultant is also a person, but also needs to be respected. They also need a clear goal and task. Adhere to the work weekly report, link working hours and work completion.
Question 24: How will you manage foreign aid?
Answer 24: The same method as the management consultant. However, they may have a manager to be responsible for outsourcing cooperation. First, you must organize our daily meetings with this manager. Persevere to make a copy of our work weekly and deliverable.
Question 25: How will you work with employees who do not seem to complete their work on time?
Answer 25: When you find the cause of the problem, the problem can solve. The reason is not necessarily the ability to analyze problems or solve problems. It may be a management problem.
The employee may not be properly trained, and his work may exceed his ability. Another possibility is that this person has too many things to do and these things are most important or he doesn't know the date of delivery.
If not the above reasons, pay attention to observation and find out if it is. For example, when everyone encounters problems, this person will be found. Then, this person's work will often be interrupted countless times.
Communication skills
Question 26: How will you host each stage of the project and understand the project?
Answer 26: The prototype throughout the project is a proper method. Let users study tangible and invisible interests to make cost-effective analysis. Develop test data, test outlines and acceptance standards with users. E-mail milestone status report and update / modified project plan. Check the deliverables while the project is staged.
Question 27: How will you discover and solve internal and external problems? Answer 27: Get the truth from all possible resources and objectively recorded. Then, in the relevant parties, try to solve the problem. If this method is invalid, there is a problem in accordance with the organization's management structure and refer to possible solutions.
Question 28: How will you get a consistent support from the supplier?
Answer 28: Although the supplier is outside management, you can also include them, if they:
get respect
Understand business objectives
Pre-purchase
Will supply as a planned input, which will affect them
Involved in the design
Therefore, in the early stages of the project, you should consider the management of suppliers. Make sure they understand the interests of business goals and work.
Question 29: How to deal with "Can I break some rules?"
Answer 29: Using some kind of technique is unable to convince users or leadership. Anyone may resist changes in the current situation. However, if technologies are linked to commercial profits, users will support your suggestions.
Question 30: How do you deal with different business users if he:
a) refuse to confirm the needs
b) Change ideas
c) refused to spend time
d) Adhere to unreal deadline
Answer 30: Regardless of how customers have more difficulties, they should remember that they have work. They are customers. You must fully respect them at a high degree of professionalism.
Because they can't understand our work, communication is more complicated as we can't fully understand them. Therefore, we take time to plan and explain the content contained therein. Users need to feel that they have not wasted time, being achieved, and their intentions are well understood. The production prototype is a useful tool. It provides a flexible drawing that users can understand.
In addition, the understanding of the work style is also important. Refusing to admit or constantly changing the idea may stem from the lack of understanding of the problem, or worry about the future.
Users often don't want to spend time with IT staff and think that this is a waste time, because IT staff pays attention to their own tasks. The history of the past delivery product should be checked. If the user has been many times but does not see a valuable output, they will refuse to spend more time. In this case, you should do your expertise in the business sector of your business to get the respect of the user.
A requirement for a vacant that has been held (and within this time range) to discuss special issues. At the end of the meeting, you should let users know how to do next step (and to achieve consensus). The user's point of view is recorded on "talks of talks". These will allow users to feel their opinions have been heard and allow them to change the error.
A project is canceled is often because there is no business requirement for users to reasonably. If the project is maintained in the entire process of the project, they will see their requirements are gradually reaching. The project is rarely canceled because of postponation. Pay attention to the range change. Additional tasks in the original deadline will result in an unreal deadline.
Question 31: In one is not programmed, think you don't work in the environment where you are not working?
Answer 31: If the user thinks you understand their business goals, they hoped to start programming earlier. With a form of demand documents that they understand, provide an open communication method, and let them know what you know, what are you doing. Through the project plan, status reports and prototypes can also indicate the progress of the project. Let users participate in the project by allowing users to review the needs, prototypes and status reports.
Methodological knowledge
Question 32: What is the life cycle, what is its role?
Answer 32: A development or maintenance lifecycle is a method describing the beginning, intermediate link, and completion of a particular project. A lifecycle contains all steps, tasks, and / or activities that complete a specific target. Each activity may have a specific method. For example, the production of data models may be modeled in accordance with the James Martins. Object modeling may use Ivan Jacobson methods. The life cycle completes the business goal by using all methods. Question 33: Describe the phases, events, and deliverables that should be included in your project plan.
Answer 33: The following phase should be included in the project plan (not a waterfall / linear order):
Project management:
Typical activities: Many people have forgotten to join information such as development and maintenance project plans, status meetings, and reporting, assessing data collection, making demo materials and presentation to superior and user presentation, etc.,, internal project management activities.
Typical delivery: project plan, status report, evaluation report (for example: how many function points)
demand analysis:
Typical activities: range definition, preliminary analysis of cost profits, suggestions.
Typical delivery: scope document, physical and logic analysis, physical relationship diagram, cost profit analysis, business rules declaration, task definition, and overview.
design:
Typical activities: Establish development and test environments, production logical models, technical system design, and implementation plans.
Typical delivery: logical data model, event model, object model, network model, physical design, specifications for the development environment, modified specifications, test plans, flow charts.
Development:
Typical activities: encoding, unit testing, and making user documents.
Typical delivery: Test instructions, process manuals, procedures.
test:
Typical activities: soft, hardware test, linear testing, system testing, integrated testing, regression test and parallel testing.
Typical delivery: test results, problem reports, and tracking records.
Implementation and support:
Typical activities: The first phase of results package; training.
Typical delivery: Problem reporting process.
an examination:
Typical activities: Targeting target costs, development, visible / invisible benefits for three to six months after delivery.
Typical delivery: implement summary report.
Question 34: What should the prototype should be in the stage of the project lifecycle?
Answer 34: Throughout the entire project. seeing is believing. Because it is a good tool for verifying functions, business rules, user needs data, and testing. It is worth noting that the prototype will not be a product of crude abuse. The prototype needs to be better maintained. The prototype should be able to display navigation relationship between each window and window in the absence of the process and data.
Question 35: What is the difference between the development of client / server-based development and mainmat-based machine development in the project life cycle?
Answer 35: The project based on the client / server-side project requires additional tasks to prepare a plan. Each plan must include an inspection of events, data, and network locations. The distribution of the server / client must be determined according to the requirements of the user. In the server / client environment, the combination and method of the prototype of the graphical interface is used to use appearance modeling technology.
Question 36: How to manage and ensure quality in a maintenance project?
Answer 36: Maintenance itself contains negative significance. Many companies think that maintenance work is not good, second. Take money and is constantly modified to existing applications. It must be understood that there is also its life cycle. Therefore, a plan to surround control and quality work around the maintenance activities should be established. The new development plan includes time delivery of products and each task. The project plan should take into account the needs of demand. This allows the project manager and the user to see the impact of the progress of the project. Maintenance phase / activity is:
The determination of the change (whether the product problem will result in product problems, or change the technical platform)
Formal record change,
Change confirmation and initial estimation of the size of the change,
Prioritize existing changes,
Change analysis,
Program the change,
System / regression testing for changes and changes to the system
User confirmation,
Product submission,
produce.
Question 37: Object-Oriented Development and Traditional Development Method Different from management technology?
Answer 37: There are fewer personnel-oriented project team members, and team members don't need too much creativity. Important is the role of technology and individual. Each member needs to assume different roles at different stages of the project. Therefore, each member must understand their own advantages and disadvantages. Roles around one or more people:
Designer (the overall structure of the system)
Abstract engineer (class and class)
Application engineers (completed and assembled and category)
Due to the traditional development method, the personal role cannot be interchangeable. Software development is the result of personal efforts. Even the team consisting of the best, the smartest people, if they can't work for common goals, then the easiest project cannot be successfully completed.
Question 38: How do you allocate time between employee relationships, project management, and text?
Answer 38: People are the most valuable wealth, therefore takes the most time. However, the order of the project manager must pay attention to things should be:
Business goals,
The company's goal,
project,
team,
personal,
Changes in technology and methods
Question 39: What is PM-CMM?
Answer 39: Personnel management capability maturity model. Both PM-CMM and CMM are the concept model developed by Carnegie. Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. PM provides organizational methods for human resource management. Five levels are:
Freedhead: personnel management have no coherence,
Repeatable: organizations have some policy guidelines in person management.
Clearly: combine personnel management with business characteristics,
Measurement: Management of personnel can be quantified,
Optimization: Organized is committed to continuously improving the level of management.
summary
A successful team refers to a team of morale from a morale consisting of a member of different skills, talents, work style and knowledge. The responsibility of the project manager is to form these people into teams and motivate them. This article will often ask questions through review of general concepts, terms and interviews, preparing for interviews. You can organize the answer according to your knowledge and experience in how you become a good project manager. No matter how to answer, try to leave the organization you'll have any impression. It should be facing a positive attitude. It should be paid to personally managed, and there is a good technical background. It should have common sense, confidence, listening, and decisions.
