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arlene trimble Assistant IT Director| Local Government Alamo, Ca, United States
When you are hiring a Senior Project Manager or Senior Program Manager, what are your Top Three Interview Questions?
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Nelson J. Rosamilha Executive Director| Digitalmode Sao Paulo, Sp, Brazil
I would first asking him what is is leadership style, after that i would tell him a history and ask him how he would resolve that sitution in order to make sure if his leadership style is what he is stating.

Second i would tell him another history describing a problem (real one) which i faced with a c level customer and would ask him if he has some suggestions to solve that.

Third i would question hin about financials aspects related to the project, revenue recognitiion rules, payments and so on..
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Pravin Kumar Shrivastava Associate Vice President| Aithent Technologies Pvt Ltd Gurgaon, Haryana, India
The three typical questions -
1. ROI and challenging implementation ?
2. How do you handle Conflict management ?
3. What is the contribution towards organization development and process improvements.

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Prem Kumar Sr. Project Leader| Corent Technologies Inc Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Hi, Questions focuses should be more on Identification, Implementation and Institutionalization of Process Improvements across the account/project and organization based on applicability

Stakeholder management is next important at this stage where SPM will have to interact more with customers, Senior management etc

Metrics dashboards like productivity measurement, Defect densities, cycle time manipulation

From my point of view these 3 are the major areas where your questions should focus on.
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Gina Abudi President| Abudi Consulting LLC Amherst, Nh, United States
1. How have you engaged senior leadership in your projects?
2. Talk about a successful project that was accomplished although there was significant adversity around that project? How did you get it accomplished?
3. How do you engaged and keep team members motivated when it seems as if the odds are against them on the project?
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John Herman . Us, Aa, United States
1. What's the biggest project you've ever worked on in terms of the size of the project team and size of the budget?

2. How long was that project?

3. What kinds of problems did you encounter? (try to get three problems and how they were solved).
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arlene trimble Assistant IT Director| Local Government Alamo, Ca, United States
Thank you everyone for your very helpful and insightful responses.
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Joanna Newman Head of Innovation and Transformation , Telecoms| Vodafone Cholderton, United Kingdom
Fact based questions: Size, scale, scope of team/budget/portfolio

Open questions: Successes, failures etc.

Curve balls: describe a situation and ask for how to proceed

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