Project Management Tools and Metrics Questions

Focuses on hands on experience with project and product management tools and the operational metrics used to plan, track, and communicate work. Topics include common tools and platforms for backlog management and scheduling, workflows and automation in work trackers, issue and dependency tracking, release planning, and integration with engineering toolchains. Metric topics include schedule variance, budget variance, scope change frequency, risk status and mitigation tracking, team velocity and throughput, burn down and burn up charts, percent complete, cycle time, and qualitative stakeholder feedback. Interviewers probe how candidates select which metrics to track, how they ensure data quality, how they use metrics to make trade offs and adjust plans, how they surface status to stakeholders with dashboards and reports, and how they prevent metric gaming while driving outcomes.