Job IT PM profile: oral interview for an European Executive Agency (London)

Prepare for an assalt, they are ruthless, don't smile, put a great pressure on you while continuously reminding you the time:

1. mention the most relevant work experience in 5 min.
2. mention 1 project that is more important for you and mention why.
3. talk about a failed project.
4. how often and when you involve the users during the project lifecycle; communication plan.
5. a question for sure on monitoring & controlling, how?
6. do you have ownership of your projects? (especially if you were an external consultant or CA).
7. how you get the stakeholders' buy-in?
8. how would you explain in simple words the status of your project to hi-level stakeholders?
9. most important things you do when starting a project?
10. quickly, split 5 developers/specialist into different roles.
11. rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10.
12. detail the type of projects you have in your current portfolio.
13. how to deal with user complains?
14. what important lessons have you learned?
15. what was the biggest project (budget, team composition)?
16. when would I escalate to my manager? what would I do? 
17. the smallest work unit planned in my project plan - how small will be and why?
18. techniques to manage the scope and requirements: how would you know that were delivered (completed)?
19. what would I take into consideration when planning the user acceptance?
20. to whom does an internal consultant/specialist (should) report to?
21. multi-cultural environment: goods & bads.
22. when would you do if your manager's decisions have a negative impact on you or your work/project?
23. what would I do if your manager will distribute the projects in an unequal (incorrect) manner to the team?
24. PM square? corporate methodologies?
25. talk about your motivation?
26. why should we stop recruiting and take you?

Don`t forget to make a cool presentation about yourself as THE BEST PM that exists!!!

Sell yourself without SHAME !!!

more questions here ;)

Job: IT PM profile - eliminatory test for an European Executive Agency (London)

Case Study: a business case is given, 6 deliverables are requested:

1. a Governance model
2. a Risk Log
3. an Issue log
4. a Communication plan
5. Project plan (use of Microsoft Project)
6. A ppt presentation for all the deliverables + a dependency scheme between the deliverables

IT PM general questions:

• describe a SD methodology (what does it contain, give examples).
• What are the 3 biggest mistakes for an IT PM?
• The most important discipline (for you) from the SD methodology chosen: argument.
• Monitor & Control techniques.
• What are the 3 biggest qualities of an IT PM?

Cloud Computing - web resources (draft)

• ENISA Security Risk Assessment
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