☛ Tell me a little bit about your career path, how did you move into Project Management?

☛ Who were your mentors as you entered Project Management? What did you learn from them?

☛ What do you feel is the value of a good Project Manager (PM)?

☛ What would you say is the most important skill of a PM and why?

☛ How do you keep up your skills in Project Management?

☛ What are your favorite aspects of being a PM?

☛ Describe one of your most challenging projects? Why was it challenging and how did you pull the project through it?

☛ What is your exposure to [Agile, SDLC, or whatever other methodology used on your projects]

☛ What is your exposure to [the industry for which I'm interviewing]?

☛ Tell me about the kinds of performance metrics you use to see if the project is on track?

☛ Tell me about a time when you moved a project into yellow or red status? How did you report on it? How did you get it back to green?

☛ Tell me about a time when you encountered a serious conflict and how you dealt with it.

☛ What projects have you managed and what different styles have you used? [Waterfall, Agile, strong leadership, self-organizing teams -- looking for how flexible and adaptable candidate might be]

☛ Tell me about how you approach Risk management on a new project

☛ How do you handle a situation where the client does not want to surface and address Risk?

☛ How do you hold a team accountable for quality, not quantity?

☛ How do you deal with client employees with low motivation or low skills?

☛ Tell me about a failure and what you learned from it.

☛ Tell me about a do-over in your career?

☛ What would your peers and past supervisor tell me about you?

☛ Tell me about a personal legacy that you created on one of your projects.