Андрiй Просов - "How to Recognize DNA of Project Manager at a Job Interview" Kharkiv PMDay 2017
1. How to Recognize DNA
of Project Manager
at a Job Interview
Andrey Prosov
04 March 2017
2. About me
• Senior Project Manager in Insoft Global
• 10+ experience in R&D and Project
Management
• PhD
• Certified Scrum Master
• ISTQB Certification
3. Agenda
• Role of a Project manager at a project
• Competencies of the project manager
• Classic vs Modern management
• Project Manager place in a ecosystem of a company
• Check list to recognize DNA of Project Manager
• How to get win-win situation
8. Competencies of a Project Manager
Managing a
Project
Managing
a Team
Managing
Customers
9. Managing a Project
PLANNING/ ORGANIZING:
• Ability to determine appropriate measures for
themselves and for others to achieve the project goals
• Prioritization of these measures
• Co-ordination of the measures
CONTROLLING:
• Ability to control processes and activities in a result-
oriented manner
• Ensures project progress
STRESS TOLERANCE:
• Ability to work effectively to tight deadlines regardless of
possible setbacks
10. Managing Customers
END-CUSTOMER ORIENTATION:
• Experience and keen instinct for the customer’s
respective field of activity or sector of industry and
the hierarchical levels
• Ability to “sell“ the project results in the
organization
PERSONAL “CHEMISTRY”:
• Ability to make a good and competent impression
right from the first contact
ANALYTICAL SKILLS:
• Ability to focus on the essentials, capacity for
• abstraction, sound judgment and experience
11. Managing a Team
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES/ MANAGING PEOPLE:
•Ability to motivate a team to work together towards a common
goal and to achieve cooperation within the team
•Provides professional support
•Ability to delegate
GUIDANCE/MANAGING PERFORMANCE:
•Ensures customer-oriented quality
•Combines various disciplines to find the best solution
SENSITIVITY:
•Recognizes and appreciates each person’s strengths, interests and
problems
•Fairness when dealing with others
•Encouragement of a culture of constructive controversy
16. Classic Management
• «Менеджмент 1.0» по Гэри Хэмелу:
ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ –> ЧЕЛОВЕК –> ПРИБЫЛЬ
• Иерархия
• Внешняя мотивация - результат
17. Modern Management
• «Менеджмент 2.0» по Гэри Хэмелу:
ЧЕЛОВЕК –> ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ –> ВЛИЯНИЕ
• Внутренняя мотивация – > процесс
• Переход от авторитарного стиля руководства к лидерству
• Коммуникации, пронизывающие организацию снизу вверх, сверху
вниз, по горизонтали.
• Атмосфера в организации, способствующая раскрытию способностей
работающих.
• Постоянное обучение всех, везде и всегда.
• Долевое участие каждого работающего в общих результатах
18. Future Management (By Ichak Adizes)
• Закат авторитарного стиля управления
• Конец иерархии
• Сила командного духа
• Акцент на организационную архитектуру, а не на стратегическое
планирование
• Фокус на миллениалах
• Прозрачность данных
• Управление стрессом
• Здоровье организации как новая корпоративная цель
19. Project Manager place in a ecosystem
of a company
• Company History
• Mission and values of company
• Company/Project Team
22. Check list to recognize DNA of Project Manager
Define project type (product, outsource, support)
Describe ideal candidate
Run Interview
Answer to questions:
Passed minimum required level?
Manager or Leader?
Type of Project Manager?
Does he/she bring new energy to Company or not?
Positive person?
23. How to get win-win situation
• Define management type in your Company
• Describe ecosystem of your company and project
team
• What type of candidate do you need at this project
• Run a job interview
• Provide a candidate with your expectations