Project Management (PM) questions

Please assist with this questionaire.

1. Who is accountable when you manage a project?

2. How do you get an understanding of the technology so you can effectively manage a project?

3. Onshore - offshore delivery model? Please describe the engagement structure.

4. How do you plan on arriving to your budget?

5. How do you deal with scope changes?

6. How do you deal with risk management?

7. Provide an example of escalating an issue to the customer?

8. What is a PM's role in the creation of SOW's, contracts, proposals? What are the key areas covered in SOWs?

9. What is the difference between issue and risk?

10. What tools are used to manage various aspects of a project?(e.g. Planning, Resource Utilization, Tracking, etc).

11. How do you create & maintain the project plan for projects with multiple dependencies from start to completion?

12. How frequently do you manage project burn (Planned vs Actual)?

13. By phase/step, please list out the top two deliverables/artifacts in the SDLC and what are the possible hands-on involvement with them.

14. MS Project related questions:

-Describe the difference between Duration and Work; which one do you find for valuable for fixed-cost projects?

-In a fixed cost environment, what is the â??task typeâ? you would use in MS Project?

-Is % complete a useful metric?

-How could you easily, in as few steps as possible, reschedule incomplete work, using the options available in MS Project?

-How do you manage resource utilization/allocation using MS-project?