Technical Project Manager Mock Interview

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Your project is slated to have three phases over three years. Each phase will have the mostly identical milestones. Stakeholders are likely to change. How will you ensure consistency across three phases?

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M Cheryl Harkins

Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.

In project management, consistency will rely heavily on a repeatable process. With this question, the interviewing is gauging your process documentation skills. Assure the interviewer that you understand the importance of process documentation, including process mapping. You will want to identify the parts of a process map and provide other process documentation examples as required.

M Cheryl Harkins

Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.

"Because each phase has the same project milestones, it will be much easier for me to plan for consistency. As I work with the stakeholders in building the project plan, I will extract elements for process mapping. My objective would be to document the process based on Phase 1. It will function as a roadmap or template for the rest of the phases. I can identify actions, decision points, expected input, output, as well as owners. During the course of the project, I can take out elements that won't need to be repeated for Phases 2 and 3. Further, I can evaluate each milestone regularly and identify areas of improvement. At the end of the project, I can expound on the map and write a playbook. This way, anyone who gets assigned to the project has a reference and won't have to start from scratch."

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