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Leadership Qualities

  1. Explain Leadership Qualities

    Tell and explain to us about a specific situation during the project where we have to cope with a less experienced candidate in your team and what are the measures you to meet your deadlines ?

    OR

    You have been assigned as the Team Lead for a team comprised of new employees just out of college and "entry-level" consulting staff.
    What steps can you take to insure that the project is completed against a very tight time deadlines ?

    OR

    Your project is beginning to exceed budget and to fall behind schedule due to almost daily user change orders and increasing conflicts in user requirements.
    As a senior developer , how will you address the user issues ?

    1. If you opted for a Technical or a Team lead this is to test your team handling skills.
    2. In general to handle a team under stringent deadlines,you should say we follow the process and to verify whether we are meeting the deadlines we will have regular checkpoint meetings.
    3. We will have an MPP plan to measure and track the progress of the project, along with that owner ship would be assigned persons by identifying aggressive persons in the team.
    4. We would be monitoring across various stages of the project from requirement gather till Unit Testing. Whether the design documents are in place and has the Implementation phase has been started or not
    5. We will come up with estimates identifying the key components of the application and track to ensure we are meeting the estimates.
    6. Code reviews would be done for every component that is ready to completion.
    7. Will use automation tools to increase the productivity like Hibernate reverse engineering tools or SQL Jdeveloper to work with databases or PMD code review tools etc.
    8. Will ask the team members to perform Unit testing once there are done with development and verify them against tracebility matrix.
    9. All the changes to the requirements would be monitored closely and will have a change management and approval process would be placed to accept any future changes to the requirements.

  2. How do you handle non-productive team members ?

    1. Will try to monitor the resources closely, will try to have a regular discussions with them to identify their strengths and weakness.
    2. Will motivate them by encouraging them on the work they have done.
    3. Will identify their technical challenges and nominate for training.
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