- Scope : What needs to be done to meets project deliverables
- Time: Amount of Time available to complete the project
- Cost : Budgeted Amount available for the project
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
What are the three constraints on Project?
The traditional three constraints of Project Management are:
What distinguishes project from routine Operations?
Routine Operations are ongoing and repetitive, whereas projects are temporary and unique.
For example Say one needs to setup Restaurant service Chinese cuisine. The work involved will be:
Setting up of Restaurant will be termed as project, as the setup process will be temporary, i.e. end when the restaurant is setup and opened.
Day to Day running of Restaurant will comprise as Operations, as the work in ongoing and repetitive. Everyday Cooks will be cooking the dishes, waiters will be serving etc.
For example Say one needs to setup Restaurant service Chinese cuisine. The work involved will be:
- Setting up of Restaurant:: Purchasing/Leasing Land, Furniture, Doing the interiors
- Running the Restaurant: Cooking, Serving, Cleaning
Setting up of Restaurant will be termed as project, as the setup process will be temporary, i.e. end when the restaurant is setup and opened.
Day to Day running of Restaurant will comprise as Operations, as the work in ongoing and repetitive. Everyday Cooks will be cooking the dishes, waiters will be serving etc.
How do you plan for Project?
In the answer, interviewer will try to see if you know the basics of PM 101 or not. Go though the PM 101 guide in your reference for this answer.
Questions
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What this Blog is About
At some point in career path, techies become manager's or start handling management resposibility as they move forward. Even in pure technical path of Architect, person has to develop management capability.
My story is same.... Being a techie, i moved onto to Project Management path. In day to day job, how and when this transition happened, i did not even realize. Kept on learning tools and processes on the job as required. Handled projects ranging from small Proof of Concepts to Large Deliverables spanning across couple of years.
Got my doses of education on Project Management 101 in form of structured trainings and E-Learnings.
I was able to successfully sail all my projects on time, on budget, boosting my confidence that i'm good in project rather now program management.
In most of high tech companies, project manager role also involves technical management and people management.
In your day to day job, the involvement of junior project managers will be more into execution phase. As one grows up in project management profession, one starts getting involved in planning phase, budgeting etc. This involvement in other phases of project varies from sector one is in: Services based company or Product based company.
Then on one fine day i started thinking about looking for Program Management or Project Management opportunities outside for better prospects like everyone else.
I started discussions with friends who had recently interviewed for project management jobs, searched on google for interview questions for project management. On looking at those questions, i realized that one needs serious preparation for Project Management interviews.
If one is confronted with those questions without preparation, one will not be able to clear these interviews.
One may be really good oin delivering projects, learning and applying knowledge on go, but to structure your experiences in answering these questions, one needs to sit down and frame answers once before you go for the interview.
What i got from the searches is series of questions and no answers. What i m trying to achieve via this blog is to jot down my answers for these questions based on my experience. These answers may not be correct one's, but will be enough to stimulate the thought process of folks reading it.
Feel free to add your answers and thoughts for each question. Good Luck.
My story is same.... Being a techie, i moved onto to Project Management path. In day to day job, how and when this transition happened, i did not even realize. Kept on learning tools and processes on the job as required. Handled projects ranging from small Proof of Concepts to Large Deliverables spanning across couple of years.
Got my doses of education on Project Management 101 in form of structured trainings and E-Learnings.
I was able to successfully sail all my projects on time, on budget, boosting my confidence that i'm good in project rather now program management.
In most of high tech companies, project manager role also involves technical management and people management.
In your day to day job, the involvement of junior project managers will be more into execution phase. As one grows up in project management profession, one starts getting involved in planning phase, budgeting etc. This involvement in other phases of project varies from sector one is in: Services based company or Product based company.
Then on one fine day i started thinking about looking for Program Management or Project Management opportunities outside for better prospects like everyone else.
I started discussions with friends who had recently interviewed for project management jobs, searched on google for interview questions for project management. On looking at those questions, i realized that one needs serious preparation for Project Management interviews.
If one is confronted with those questions without preparation, one will not be able to clear these interviews.
One may be really good oin delivering projects, learning and applying knowledge on go, but to structure your experiences in answering these questions, one needs to sit down and frame answers once before you go for the interview.
What i got from the searches is series of questions and no answers. What i m trying to achieve via this blog is to jot down my answers for these questions based on my experience. These answers may not be correct one's, but will be enough to stimulate the thought process of folks reading it.
Feel free to add your answers and thoughts for each question. Good Luck.
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