IT Project Manager Mock Interview
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Question 12 of 29
Can you discuss the outcome and the results of a recent IT development project that you worked on or managed?
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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
When an interviewer asks this question, they are only marginally interested in the results you obtained from a project. What they're actually looking for is how you went about obtaining those results, and any lessons you may have learned regardless of whether the project was successful or a failure. The best way to answer this question is to provide a brief description of the results you obtained and then elaborating on the techniques you used to obtain those results. Your answer should also align with the type of projects for which the organization is interviewing you to manage.
William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"One of the most successful projects I recently managed was migrating an on-premise data center into the cloud. The critical challenge of this project was to maintain the productivity of the organization during the migration. We accomplished this by first standing up the hardware resources in the cloud. We then replicated the applications and data and migrated it to the hardware already set up in the cloud. Finally, we shut down the company's production for the weekend, took a snapshot of the data, and then updated the information in the cloud. On Monday, the company was in full production, and no data had been lost. What I learned from this is that the success of a project begins the planning stage and that if done properly, the execution is relatively straightforward."
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