Project manager scenarios
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The project manager is presented with a late project scenario and must determine the best path forward given the remaining work items, team velocity, deadline, and client priorities. Key considerations include breaking down large stories, removing unnecessary features, and onboarding new team members to help complete the work on time. For a new project scoping exercise, the project manager evaluates converting a risk report from Excel to a custom application. Given the budget and importance of calculating scores accurately, the project manager outlines a plan to build the scoring logic in the application backend and integrate with the existing spreadsheet interface. This approach aims to deliver the highest priority features within the allocated funds.
Project manager scenarios
- 1. Project Manager Interview Questions * As a manager, what are your guiding principles and values? Are there any influential management methodologies or gurus that you find guide your actions? * Give me an example of how you applied these values, practices etc. to previous projects. * What are the most important Agile/XP practices to you? * What are the least important Agile/XP practices to you? * Besides day to day working, how do you stay current in the field? Books, journals, blogs, newsgroups, study groups, classes, etc.? * How many projects have you handled in the past? o Did you meet all the deadlines? Come in on time/within budget? If not, why, and how did you handle the stakeholders? o Are there any major obstacles you had to overcome in any of these projects? * How would your last boss describe you? * What is your managerial style like? Project Manager - Late Project Scenario +Tags: Remaining Story List Story Name Points advanced search 8 forgot email/password 3 link posts that respond to other posts 1 add more comment text to existing post 2 show quotes about 'me' 1 email verification of posting 3 * Team has averaged 3 pts/week so far * Only 4 weeks left until the 1 week QA period * Client is happy with the quality of the product * 4 developers, working in pairs Project Manager - Late Project Scenario Notes +Tags: * Do not give them the story cards unless they ask * Forgot password is not necessary right now, and can simply be an email link to the admin * Advanced search can be broken down to 5 and 3 point stories. When we originally talked about it, it was searching by date range, author, avg user rating and number of times viewed. The avg user rating and number of times viewed could be moved into a 3 point story. * Client was told by one of the developers that Cyrus had 2 new hires whose destinations were as of yet unknown. They are both experienced in XP and got
- 2. excellent ratings in the hiring process. Project Manager - Scope New Project Scenario +Tags: A potential client has asked you to fix their Risk Report. They like what they have now in Excel, but the scores are sometimes wrong and it's slow - every time it recalculates, it takes 30 minutes. It started years ago when they had 500 assets, but now it's 10000 assets, so it's time for an upgrade. It was written by an analyst there who dabbles in VB for Excel. The analyst is still working there, but has found that calculating the scores quickly and correctly is beyond their skill. Project Manager - Scope New Project Scenario Notes +Tags: * Cost is the key factor here. $2000/point. They can only spend $25K max. * The scores are the most important stories. If they can be calculated correctly in Java and sent back to the spreadsheet, the project can be done under budget. * Stories and points below - any other stories, just make up a point score. stuff that can be done in the backend Setup / Kickoff 1 Deploy to New Server 2 Calc and Display Audit On Time Score 3 Calc and Display Exam Score 2 Display Govt Agency Score 2 total 10 points Stuff that can be done in excel Display Asset ID 1
- 3. Display Manager 1 Filter Columns 2 Sort Columns 2 Any other story ? just make up some points