Interview Questions for Business Analyst (BA) Consultants
1.
Who
is accountable when you manage a project?
2.
What
technologies and business area’s have you interfaced with?
3.
How
do you get an understanding of the technology so you can effectively manage a
project?
4.
What
size projects have you managed directly? (Hours / Dollars/Resources/Duration).
5.
What
number of projects simultaneously have you worked on? What was your role in each?
6.
Have
you worked in an onshore – offshore delivery model? If yes, please describe the engagement
structure and your specific role.
7.
How
have you measured project success in the past?
8.
What
number of projects have completed on time and on budget? What were the top 2 lessons learned from
projects that did not come in on time or on budget?
9.
How
do you plan/arrive at your budget?
10.
How
have you dealt with scope changes?
11.
How
have you dealt with risk management?
12.
Give
an example of a time when you had to escalate an issue to the customer?
13.
What
was your role in the creation of SOW’s, contracts, proposals? What are the key
areas covered in SOWs?
14.
What
is the difference between issue and risk?
15.
What
tools have you used to manage various aspects of a project?(e.g. Planning,
Resource Utilization, Tracking, etc).
16.
How
do you create & maintain the project plan for projects with multiple
dependencies from start to completion?
17.
How
frequently do you manage project burn (Planned vs Actual)?
18.
By
phase/step, please list out the top two deliverables/artifacts in the SDLC and
what your hands-on involvement with them were.
19.
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 “task type” 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?
20.
Please
describe the last three projects you have personally managed using the
following criteria:
- Name of Project:
- Budget of Project:
- Size of project team:
- Duration of Project:
- Man Hours (Work) of Project:
- What was the unique product, service, or result of the project?
- What technology, if any, was utilized?
- Was the project environment functional, matrix, or projectized?
- Did the project finish on time? On Budget? Satisfy Requirements?
- What were the major issues in the project?
- What aspect of your leadership assisted the project to complete successfully?
