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Assessing Technical PM Competencies
Dr. Andrew Makar is an IT program manager and is the author of the Microsoft Project Made Easy series. For more project management advice, visit the website TacticalProjectManagement.com.
In the previous article, we reviewed five effective leadership behavior questions. These questions were designed to assess delivery based leadership behaviors, and to help foster a commitment to customer satisfaction and a drive for overall delivery. This article provides a set of technical project management questions that assess the candidate’s knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
Technical Competencies
Question 1: What steps do you follow to build a project schedule? How do you baseline a project schedule in MS-project?
These questions assess the project manager’s schedule development skills. The ideal candidate will walk through the steps to develop a project schedule including activity definition, sequencing, resource estimation, duration estimation and resource leveling. If the project manager can’t tell you how or when to baseline a project schedule using Microsoft Project or another scheduling tool, then it is an early indicator the candidate lack’s an important technical skill to execute the process.
Question 2: What techniques do you use to monitor and control project work?
This question is used to assess how the project manager monitors the project, addresses schedule and cost variances, and controls the project through delivery. I’m hoping to hear the project manager schedules …
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