Practice 33 IT Delivery Manager interview questions covering project governance, stakeholder management, and service delivery.
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Resource roles and team structures vary widely within companies. Interviewers ask this question to determine if a candidate has previously performed in a leadership role with the types of resources that the delivery manager candidate will be working with.

Karrie Day is a certified career coach and strategist with a passion for helping her clients define and reach their professional goals. She offers career advancement services such as brand development, resume writing and critiques, job search strategies,
Avoid listing roles you performed before you had leadership responsibilities. While that experience may be relevant, this question aims to understand your ability to lead individuals in certain roles.

Karrie Day is a certified career coach and strategist with a passion for helping her clients define and reach their professional goals. She offers career advancement services such as brand development, resume writing and critiques, job search strategies,
"I worked as a lead analyst on several projects. I focused mainly on custom web applications that served business operations clients. I was responsible for training, mentoring, work assignment, and performance review of the junior analysts that worked on my teams.
I worked as a project manager in the same space and served in a leadership capacity across the development teams I served. I was typically assigned to more than one project at a time and led a team of analysts, engineers, and quality assurance testers. I was responsible for tracking progress, resolving team issues, and working directly with the client to set goals and deliver upon them.
I served as a scrum master for a team that developed CMS integration solutions. In that leadership role, I ensured the team understood Scrum and that we followed the process in a way that improved the quality of our work. I trained, mentored, and removed roadblocks for team members."
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