Project manager Interview questions.

Question 1.What are the responsibilities of a project manager?
Answer 1. A project manager is often challenged to align mainly 6 project constraints

1. Scope : How much work is to be estimated
2. Time : How much time will be required to complete the project
3. Cost : Budget required to deliver the project.
4. Quality : 
5. Resource : Who will be doing the project
6. Risk : Any intermediary dependency that may delay or impact the project.

Question 2 : What are the major parts of project estimation?

Answer 2 :  

1. Effort Estimation
2. Cost Estimation
3. Resource Estimation

Question 3 :What is a WBS ?

Answer   3 : Definition :

1. Key project deliverable that organizes the team work into manageable sections.
2. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team.                                                                                                                                                   

• Break down the scope into smallest work package components or activities
• Sequence the activities in the order in which they will be performed
• Identify the effort required to complete each activity.
• Identify the dependencies to complete each activity.
• Identify possible risk and assumptions
• Define the resource and cost estimate to completion of each activity,components.

Question 4 : What are the essential project documents ?

Answer 4 : Few documents which are suppose to be essential for a self respecting project would be listed as    

1. Business Case
2. The statement of work
3. The project charter
4. The project management Plan
5. Action Log
6. Risk Register
7. Status Report
8. Budget
9. Lessons learned review