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1. Give me an example of strategic Smart city Mission is newly introduced by Union Govt in
plan you have created. 2015 where exactly our existence is predominant.
1. How did the need for this Considering massive upcoming development in this
come about? sector, to record our dominance & expertise in the field,
2. What data did you analyze precisely we focused on one of the green field Amaravati
to create this? (Look for capital city projects covering 217 Sq.km area. To make it
competitor analysis) happen we have made a strategic plan to get order book
3. How did you go about to the tune of 6000 + Crs (six packages) against estimated
gaining buy in for this? development cost of 15,647 Crs and completing the same
4. What was the result in 3 years.
8 Tell me about time when you took In 2008- MDP – IIM Bangalore
conscious steps to learn a new In 2009 -MDP – IIM Calcutta
skill or task? In 2010- L&T Institute of Project Management – Senior
What prompted you to do Management program on projects – Level 2
so? In 2012- Strategic Project and Program Management
How did you go about -Level 3 in association with George Washing ton
learning this skill or task? University, USA
What support did you seek In 2019 – International project visit to Dubai – to
& where did you find this? understand international project management skill &
What helped you learn this practices- Jebel ALI STP Project.
new task or skill? In 2020-21, Online certificate programs in L&T Next
How long did it take What Digital platform
is your key take away from Critical thinking
this experience? Vision & values – The standing pillars of
organization
Synergistic customer
Organizational leadership
Global Strategic mindsets
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Give me an example of a time Mr. Karthikeyan was average performer in Jaipur cluster
when you turned around the office. He was under stress due to personal problems.
performance of a poor/ average 1.I observed there was a decline in work quality, became
team member. lonely & I enquired immediately to address the problems.
What was the situation at 2. Set goals – given opportunity to turn around his
the time? performance – developed work improvement plan –
How did you identify this identified his requirements of resources, tools & support
team members key that are available.
development areas? 3. Providing feedback - on his improvement on regular
What steps did you take to basis, ask his challenges & hurdles facing during the
coach the team member? process and support required to perform & documented
How did you keep track of his improved plan
the progress this individual 4. Rewarding with prize / memento for his improvement
was making? and further guidance to scale further.
Now he is a project Manager for sewerage package worth
of 350 cr.
Customer oriented
9 Tell me about recent instance Due to tough schedule and milestone, quick decision
where you developed a solution making become inevitable to avoid any delays. Customer
jointly with the customer (internal also very much focused to Fast-track on the work
& external) progress.
Who was the customer in
this case? 1.APCRDA, ADCL external customer& TI IC were the
What was the need you are internal partner & there was s suggestion from customer to
trying to address? delegate the power to next level people.
How did you approach the
co- creation of the solution 2.All the time Project Director used to attend progress
with your customer? meetings with PGMC, PMC, Client, Vendors, Top
What specifically helped management, Design team, technology providers, etc.
you in doing so? which resulted delay in decision making which affected
What was the feedback progress.
you received in this case?
What were the net results 3.We learnt that by delegating CMs to take some of the
decisions as a promotional initiative as PM (informal) for
each package to take quick decisions.
13 Give me an instance of a time Initially, there were lot of complications in finalizing the
when you leveraged your TCS by accommodating 7 utilities within ROW. TCS
understanding of your (internal & finalization is the first & foremost activity for utility works.
external) customer to advise them
on what should be done. 1.APCRDA, PMC & Program consultant & in house
1. Who was the customer in Engineering Team
this case?
2. What were their immediate 2. Short term requirement is to finalize the TCS to kick
& long-term needs? start the construction work and long-term need was ease
3. How did you identify the for O&M.
best solution for them in
this case? 3.Accomodating the major utilities out of main carriage
4. What steps did you to take way could help to achieve faster progress.
to convince them of your
approach? 4.To achieve fast track progress, we should aim to keep
5. What resistance did you very minimum utility in carriage way.
face?
6. How did it all work out? 5.Initially, client was not ready to use MF zone for utilities
What is your key take away from by anticipating clashes between the networks.
30 Tell me about a time when you An Executive Engineer (Customer) was not happy with a
had to take steps to receive from a Project Manager assigned to a particular Job and that was
customer complaint. creating hurdles to the Project Progress.
What was the issue in this In that instance I had intervened and met the officials and
case? understood the concerns of the EE and Team Lead of the
What was the impact on PMC.
the customers that made
People oriented
11. Give me an example of a time Amaravati project is located adjacent to the Krishna riverbed.
when you challenged your team to Water table was higher than our anticipation, hence closing &
push themselves to deliver greater coming out of the trenches for power duct & sewer line depth
results. of 10-13m was a tough task. I pushed my team to find the
1. What was the situation at way to meet our targets.
the time?
2. What let you to believe 1. Actual rate of progress was just half of our budgeted
that there was a scope for target.
additional value to be
delivered? 2.Instead of carrying out in conventional way, if we apply
3. How did you energize to some new techniques will increase our performance.
deliver this?
4. What specifically did you 3.I conducted root cause analysis and motivated my team to
do leverage your find out a better solution by doing brainstorming & out of box
relationship with them in thinking.
18. Tell me about the last brainstorming Due to the change in government and its
activity you lead in your team prioritization, there may be a chance of de-
scoping. Hence, we had a brainstorming session
1. What was the issue being with all the cross functional department to figure
discussed? out the impact.
2. What were the ideas that
were suggested? 1.Issue discussed – descoping of utilities -If de-
3. How did you evaluate these scope happens, what would be the financial
suggestions when arriving at impact on Margin and difficulties in construction
a final way forward? sequence.
4. What did you do specifically 2. one person is engaged for guiding the
to encourage participation discussion & encouraged everyone to contribute
from all team members? 3.Allowing everyone to share their opinion and
5. What was the result of this? motivating them to think it in different angle.
4. Many ideas came out whether practical or
impractical &
explored all the possible options to assess the
Technology
15. Give me an example of a time when During execution phase, before start of any activity
you used digital solution at work? getting approval of SEC card for the workmen was
mandatory. It used to consume significant time of
1. What was the issue you were applying & approving persons. To curtail this, we
trying to address? provided our input to the safety department and
2. What was the issue you were finally got digital solution “Safe Armz”.
trying to address?
3. What was the existing 1.Improving the efficiency of available resources.
process?
4. How did you arrive at the 2. To avoid manually filling, approving &
solution you recommended? maintaining the day-to-day documents.
5. What business results did this
bring in? 3.Manually filling the SEC cards which used to
What is your key learning from this? have 4-5 pages.
Innovation
4. Tell me about latest innovative idea Metal Crusher and Project site is in opposite bunds of Krishna
you have implemented? river. Hence, logistics of 100 lac MT (incl TI IC) aggregate become
5. How did the idea occur to you? a bottleneck of the project. 80km distance through road & hence
6. What did you have to do to adopted barge which is a distance 25Km only.
gain buy in for this?
3.Made a special barge logistics team (TI IC) which will ensure 10
trips /day and 20 Vehicles / trip to ensure optimum usage.
14. Tell me about how you encourage 1.Encourage staff to think about innovation every day and to take
innovation in your team. ownership and responsibility for new ideas and solutions.
1. When did happen recently? 2.Empower employees to think about tough problems. 3.Adopt a
2. What was the need for a new non-hierarchical management approach.
approach here?
3. How did you find out about 4.. Develop an innovation strategy - and use it -. By developing an
this ? innovation strategy, leadership provides employees with certainty about
4. What did you do to support the core role of innovation and reinforces the idea that innovation is
your team in this case? everyone’s responsibility. - Developing an innovation strategy also
5. What resistance did you face forces senior management to think about what innovation means to
from others? them, and to state in clear terms how their employees should contribute
6. How did you overcome this? new ideas for products, systems, and services
What results did your team achieve as
a consequence of this?
Accept failure and make it the norm
.
6 Willingness to experiment
5.Due to depth & slope variance, the system may not get success
in these kinds of work.