During PM interview candidates being asked the following question:
What are 3 most important elements in Project Management?
To make this question more challenging: If you had to respond to this question not by the book teachings (PMBOK) but from your own experience would you answer be different and how?
EDIT: Please provide both responses, by the book AND personal experience. Saving Changes...
1. Manage expectations
2. Be disciplined
3. Act strategically
Kiron
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1 reply by ANTON SHPIGEL
Mar 21, 2020 9:22 AM
ANTON SHPIGEL
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Hi Kiron,
Would you mind please elaborating on your response and providing one example how you used it, as it would normally be asked at the interview?
Thank you
1. Managing Change 2. Communication 3. Organization
You would have to answer this question from your own personal experience or else you could not give any examples of why you would judge these elements more important over other aspects of project management.
The bottom line is project management is about merging and managing different element, skills, cultures and ways of doing things so soft skills would be just as important as technical skills in the PMO.
Daire Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
One could make a case for some overlap and entanglement of some of these attributes. Also, different time, different day could lead to slightly altered responses and rationale.
And what would be 4,5, and 6 Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Anton
support Kiron's 3 points, in my own words:
- care about the people
- care about yourself and the structure
- think ahead Saving Changes...
No where is this explicitly stated in the PMBOK Guide, but business value realization and stakeholder satisfaction are generally considered to be as (if not more) important as other quantitative constraints (e.g. on time, on budget) so if you draw conclusions on how to achieve those you'd come up with a list similar to that provided by myself and others.
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1 reply by ANTON SHPIGEL
Mar 21, 2020 11:49 AM
ANTON SHPIGEL
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Is Scope Time Cost constraints are not important elements thought by PMBOK?
1. Manage expectations
2. Be disciplined
3. Act strategically
Kiron
Hi Kiron,
Would you mind please elaborating on your response and providing one example how you used it, as it would normally be asked at the interview?
Thank you Saving Changes...
No where is this explicitly stated in the PMBOK Guide, but business value realization and stakeholder satisfaction are generally considered to be as (if not more) important as other quantitative constraints (e.g. on time, on budget) so if you draw conclusions on how to achieve those you'd come up with a list similar to that provided by myself and others.
Is Scope Time Cost constraints are not important elements thought by PMBOK? Saving Changes...
It is not a question of a constraint such as cost or time not being important but ensuring that we don't focus on those to the detriment of longer term outcomes such as business value realization or stakeholder satisfaction.
As someone who has frequently interviewed PM candidates in past roles, this was a question I regularly used: "What defines project success?". While I was not looking for a single, definitive answer, it was a good way to understand the thinking behind the answer.
