Who do you view as your enterprise-level customers, partners, and peers?

Remember to include the third-party groups you might be working with as partners or even peers within your response. While enterprise projects primarily serve the internal resources of an organization, the external support of vendors or other related groups is often critical to the success of a project. Interviewers appreciate candidates that demonstrate the ability to think holistically about the relationships that are key to their role as a project manager.

"I view my customers as anyone that I provide a service to. This includes the users or stakeholders of a solution I am responsible for, but I also consider anyone I am accountable to such as a teammate my customer. I find thinking of most of the people I work with as a customer in one way or another helps me to stay focused on always offering my best work.

My partners typically include senior leaders within the groups that help my project teams be successful. For example, we partner with our support, database, architecture, security, and change management groups on almost of all of our projects. I also view the groups we work with at various vendor companies as partners.

I view other project managers, senior analysts, consultants, and technical leads as my peers. We often work side-by-side to coordinate large initiatives, solve problems, and develop process improvements."