Project Manager Interviews

If you are not doing a world class job, then you are marching towards failure

My philosophy towards work is undercommit-over deliver. This has proven to be good practice to gain client confidence.

It is difficult to rate by percentage or by ratio, PM should have knowledge at macro level in all technical aspects in his project

PM should have conceputal awareness.

In Project Management according to principals laid down by PMI USA there are five phases in a project. 1- Initiation, 2 - Planning, 3- Execution, 4- Monitoring and Control and finally 5- Closure phase...

The Most important phase of PM is Integration & Planning, Even all phases are important.

Risk Management

In my view it is Integration Management. Besides, Cost, Time, Scope and Risk Management are equally important areas.

A manager should be a role model for his team rather being a manager. Proper communication with the team and taking care of issues of each member of the team would have a positive impact in the team, which helps the team to perform well.

Here are some of the steps which i take usually,(1) Avoid sudden jump into the porjects without having full awareness on the requirements, brainstorm on the requirements and allow them to ask question...

COMMUNICATION is key aspect for any success of the project and also we cannot say that a Project Manager who is not communicating timely and effectively will make the project failure, so many paramate...

Identify correct stakeholders, reqs (scope/cost/time)
Follow process
be focused
communication

A> Review is recurring, because before you exit from each phase in waterfall you need to review

Ans: D
In Waterfall Model, the project ends once build is delivered. Only maintainence and support takes place

I believe if we plan well - success will follow. As a thumb rule spend 10% of complete time on planing. Involve your team in all planning. Do not try to do things alone because major execution part ha...

Visualize things from 1000 feet high - meaning have a complete picture of the project (past, present and future). -> is the project as per schedule -> is the way in which project is mo...

You should have a risk register that you have created that lists all the risks. This register is ever changing and because as each risk is abated it is eliminated from the register and thus the project.

You can identify and mange risk by first creating a plan to handle risk. Depending on your organization, you might want to look at any existing policies, procedures, templates, or project management t...

I agree, PM can neither be aggressive not assertive. New PM methodologies like scrumCritical Chain, focus on "FOCUS". Nothing should be done to the team  which will distract the focus o...

Reviewing the answers below and getting a feel for the line of thinking therein, I am compelled to say that a project manager must be neither aggressive nor assertive when it comes to resources and sc...

The answer is "To do right Things"

The Job of a manager is to identify the right things according to the situation and then complete it by right person in right time.

To lead a team to excute or control site work.

It is not mandatory to keep a full time PM for every project. It is all depends on the considering the below factors1. Size of the project2. Budget constraints3. Does the PM need for full time work or...

Building confidence within the whole project team
Managing change
Planning
Communication
Risk analysis
Problem solving
Quality control

Main Attributes are:

@ Keen to gather information and assemble them to trace out the current scenario
@ Should not be suffer from planning myopia
@ Should accept the fact that contigencies may arise so if possible complete as much as possbile during the favorable situation.
@ Should have paticence

Define business goals
Reduce the amount of paperwork to what is absolutely necessary
Reduce organizational barriers Improve communications
Question if a step in the process is really needed, or if it can be eliminated to make delivery as fast as is practical.
Use efficient decision making

Quality controll is ensuring that every thing is done as per plan and specification. Firstly we need to study the parameters which comes to play an important role in the quality controll phase. Docume...

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PMP is a highly professional certificate. It requires 40 hours of mandatory PM training which exposes you to the PMBOK guide. The PMBOK guide is a reference book built on the collective intelligence o...

Risk management
Lifecycle costing
Real options
Organizational process assets
Non-technical project terminations 
Requirements formulation analysis

Choose an optimal solution for the following tasks assigned to you:1) Customer is expecting a lot from this project and have already communicated to you while awarding this project.2) Your employ...

There are few standard techniques to create agressive project plan as fast tracking, crashing,  and overtime.Fast tracking is defined as schedule compression technique th...

This is what I recommendStep 1 - Immediately inform HR to start resource requisition.Step 2 - Assess impact on the project due to person leavingStep 3 - Talk to the person and understand reason o...

From a project manager's standpoint, it is pretty simple. Inform the management and project stakeholders, request the HR manager for a suitable replacement, onboard the replacement and march forward....