Skill Area - DW BI Project Manager

Technical Interview Assessment Form

Candidate Name (Full Name needs to be
captured)

Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM

Position applied for (If known)
F2F in VENDOR site / F2F in IBM Office / TELEPHONIC with Candidate in IBM Location / TELEPHONIC with Candidate NOT in IBM
Evaluation Type (Please select one or more)
Location

Evaluator Name

Evaluator Mobile Number

Evaluator Employee Number

Evaluation Date

Tools worked in with experience eg DataStage

(2y 5m), Informatica (1y), COGNOS (1y 5 m),
FileNet (4m)
Experience (Review experience depicted on CV
with candidate. Please validate Please rate on a scale of Acceptable/Not Acceptable
Customers/Projects and durations)

Communication Skills Please rate on a scale of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Poor, Very Poor

TECH EVALUATION RESULTS (Needs to be

completed after the Screening and Detailed Tech Select/ Tech Reject/ Needs another Tech evaluation
interviews are completed)

Position recommended for (Needs to be

completed after the Screening and Detailed Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM
interviews are completed)

Comments (Needs to be completed after the

Screening and Detailed probing are completed.
Detailed comments on reasons for
selection/rejection/on hold are needed)

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Skill Area - DW BI Project Manager
Technical Interview Assessment Form

EVALUATOR 1

EVALUATOR 2
Please rate on a scale of 1 - 10 where 1 is lowest. 1: No skill/knowledge; 2-3: Theoretical knowledge, No work
DW/BI Project Manager
experience; 4-8: Theoretical knowledge & work exp;9-10: Advanced knowledge/experience

a) IGSDF Web Site on w3

b) Overview of IBM BI Methods on Methodsweb (can be reached via IGSDF)
c) IBM BI Methods e-Learning (available at Learning@IBM)
Suggested Reading for interviewers:
d) Review for Experienced Project Managers e-Learning (available at Learning@IBM)
e) OPAL Web site on w3
f) CMMI overview
1 Technical Competency (10-15 Mins) Please rate in a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is lowest
Data Warehouse and Business
1.1 Mandatory skill
Intelligence Architecture skills
1.2 Data Modeling skills Mandatory skill
Data Warehouse and Business
1.3 Preferred to have for Senior DW/BI candidates
Intelligence current topics awareness

2 PM skills Use these rating guidelines for this section:

2.1 Project Life Cycle Concepts Mandatory skill
2.2 Contract Management Mandatory skill. Question applicable for both development and AMS projects
2.3 Estimation Processes Mandatory skill
2.4 DW/BI Project Life Cycle Mandatory skill
DW/BI requirements management
2.5 Preferred to have for Senior DW/BI candidates
process
2.6 CMMI Concepts Mandatory skill
Project Monitoring and Control
2.7 Processes, Communication, Risk, Issue Mandatory skill. Question applicable for both development and AMS projects
and Change Management
2.8 Offshore delivery models Mandatory skill. Question applicable for both development and AMS projects
2.9 People skills Mandatory skill. Question applicable for both development and AMS projects
2.10 Stakeholder Management Mandatory skill. Question applicable for both development and AMS projects
2.11 Transition methodology Additional questions for candidates involved in AMS project management
2.12 Transition issues Additional questions for candidates involved in AMS project management
2.13 SLA Management Additional questions for candidates involved in AMS project management
2.14 DW/BI AMS Estimation process Additional questions for candidates involved in AMS project management

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Skill Area - DW BI Architect
Technical Interview Assessment Form
Candidate Name (Full Name needs to be
captured)

Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM

Position applied for (If known)
F2F in VENDOR site / F2F in IBM Office / TELEPHONIC with Candidate in IBM Location / TELEPHONIC with Candidate
Evaluation Type (Please select one or more)
NOT in IBM Location

Evaluator Name

Evaluator Mobile Number

Evaluator Employee Number

Evaluation Date

Tools worked in with experience eg

DataStage (2y 5m), Informatica (1y), COGNOS
(1y 5 m), FileNet (4m)
Experience (Review experience depicted on CV
with candidate. Please validate Please rate on a scale of Acceptable/Not Acceptable
Customers/Projects and durations)

Communication Skills Please rate on a scale of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Poor, Very Poor

TECH EVALUATION RESULTS (Needs to be

completed after the Screening and Detailed Tech Select/ Tech Reject/ Needs another Tech evaluation
interviews are completed)

Position recommended for (Needs to be

completed after the Screening and Detailed Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM
interviews are completed)

Comments (Needs to be completed after the

Screening and Detailed probing are completed.
Detailed comments on reasons for
selection/rejection/on hold are needed)

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Skill Area - DW BI Architect
Technical Interview Assessment Form

EVALUATOR 1

EVALUATOR 2
Please rate on a scale of 1 - 10 where 1 is lowest. 1: No skill/knowledge; 2-3: Theoretical knowledge, No work
DW BI Architect
experience; 4-8: Theoretical knowledge & work exp;9-10: Advanced knowledge/experience

1 Technical Competency (10-15 Mins)

Data Warehouse and Business
1.1 Mandatory skill
Intelligence Architecture skills
Data Modeling skills - Enterprise
1.2 Mandatory skill
Data Models, Star Schema Models

Data Warehouse and Business

Intelligence strategy topics - BI
Strategy, ETL Strategy, Data Mart
Consolidation Strategy, Information
1.3 Mandatory to have experince in at least one of the Strategy Topics
Intigrity / DQ strategies, Information
Governance Models, Enterprise
Performance Management Strategy,
Integrated BI Strategy

2 Architect skills
2.1 Reference Architecture Mandatory skill
2.2 BI Methodology Mandatory skill
2.3 DW & BI Estimation Process Mandatory skill
Proposal experience - Solution
2.4 Mandatory skill
Architecture
Technology / Architectural Risks &
2.5 Mandatory skill
Mitigation
2.6 Integrated Application Security Preferred to have for Senior DW/BI candidates
Performance Tuning - ETL, Database
2.7 or Analytics/BI for large volume of Mandatory skill
data
Architectural reviews - Solution /
2.8 Mandatory skill
Implementation / Proposal
2.9 Capacity planning Preferred to have for Senior DW/BI candidates
Test stragies (for architectural
2.10 Nice to have skill
perspective)

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2.11 OLAP Metadata modeling Additional questions for candidates involved in BI Analytics
Data / Varibale preparation for Data
Mining, Outliers, Selection of mining
2.12 Additional questions for candidates involved in Advanced Analytics
method, mining cycles, presentation,
visualization

2.13 Real time data integration, Federation Additional questions for candidates involved in Data Integration

Application Navigation, Data

2.14 Additional questions for candidates involved in BI Analytics
Presentation best practices in BI
2.15 Industry BI Solutions Nice to have skill
2.16 Industry Data Models Nice to have skill

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Skill Area - Business Analyst
Technical Interview Assessment Form
Candidate Name (Full Name needs to be captured)
Position applied for (If known) Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM
F2F in VENDOR site / F2F in IBM Office / TELEPHONIC with Candidate in IBM Location / TELEPHONIC with Candidate
Evaluation Type (Please select one or more)
NOT in IBM Location
Evaluator Name
Evaluator Mobile Number
Evaluator Employee Number
Evaluation Date
Tools worked in with experience eg Power BI (3.2 years)
Experience (Review experience depicted on CV with candidate.
Please rate on a scale of Acceptable/Not Acceptable
Please validate Customers/Projects and durations)
Communication Skills Please rate on a scale of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Poor, Very Poor
TECH EVALUATION RESULTS (Needs to be completed after
Tech Select/ Tech Reject/ Needs another Tech evaluation
the Screening
Position and Detailed
recommended forinterviews
(Needs toare
be completed)
completed after the
Analyst/Developer/Sr Developer/Designer/Sr Designer/Tech Lead/Architect/PM
Screening and Detailed interviews are completed)
Comments (Needs to be completed after the Screening and
Detailed probing are completed. Detailed comments on reasons
for selection/rejection/on hold are needed)
EVALUATOR 1

EVALUATOR 2

Please rate on a scale of 1 - 10 where 1 is lowest. 1: No skill/knowledge; 2-3: Theoretical knowledge, No work
DW BI Business Analyst
experience; 4-8: Theoretical knowledge & work exp;9-10: Advanced knowledge/experience

1 Technical Competency (10-15 Mins)

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Concepts
1.1 Mandatory skill
and Architecture skills
Data Modeling skills - Enterprise Data Models, Star
1.2 Mandatory skill
Schema Models, Dimensions & Facts
1.3 Basic SQL queries and concepts Mandatory skill
1.4 DWH Tools (ETL & Reporting) Mandatory skill
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence current
1.5 Preferred to have for Senior DW/BI candidates
topics awareness
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence strategy
topics - BI Strategy, ETL Strategy, Data Mart
Consolidation Strategy, Information Intigrity / DQ
1.6 Mandatory to have experince in at least one of the Strategy Topics
strategies, Information Governance Models,
Enterprise Performance Management Strategy,
Integrated BI Strategy

2 Business Analyst skills

Domain & Business Process Knowledge
-Domain concepts (Telecom, Banking etc.)
2.1 -Awarness of Industry & it's stats Mandatory skill
-Business Process Knowledge
-Source System Knowledge

Communication
-Ability to formulate concepts
-Communication of technical information to a non-
technical audience
-Communication of business information to a
2.2 Mandatory skill
technical audience
-Negotiation
-Ability to engage business at all levels
- Ability to train, provide KT to client for UAT support
or for AD to AM transition

Analytical
-Analytical and conceptual expertise
-Logical breakdown of any given problem statement
-Planning, documentation, analysis and business
requirements management techniques
-Evaluation of risk/risk mitigation
-Testing, verification and validation techniques
-Creation of the Business Requirements Document -
2.3 Mandatory skill
BRD
-Administrative and reporting abilities
-Should have Mapping experience for BI integration
with multiple source systems like IN, CRM, campaign
etc
-Translating business requirement document to
software requirement specifications
-Effort estimation exp

Management
-Decision-making
2.4 -Fundamentals of project management Basic knowledge of Management is mandatory
-Management of customer relationships
-Time management and personal organization skills

Knowledge on TDW (nice to have for Telco), BDW

2.5 Nice to have skill
(nice to have for Banking), RDW, IIW etc.
2.6 Interviewing Mandatory skill
 Reporting knowledge - Types of reporting
2.7 Mandatory skill
(operational / tactical / analytics / predictive etc.)
2.8 Due Diligence Mandatory skill
2.9 AS-IS Study Mandatory skill
2.10 Requirement Gathering Tool Knowledge Mandatory skill
Testing - Black / White Box Testing, Integration,
2.11 Mandatory skill
System testing, User Acceptance Testing
2.12 Training Methods / Training Design Mandatory skill
2.13 BI Methodology Mandatory skill
2.14 DW/BI Project Life Cycle Mandatory skill
2.15 Technology / Architectural Risks & Mitigation Mandatory skill
2.16 Proposal experience Nice to have skill
2.17 Test Data Preparation Mandatory skill
Application Navigation, Data Presentation best
2.18 Additional questions for candidates involved in BI Analytics
practices in BI
2.19 Industry BI Solutions Nice to have skill
2.20 Industry Data Models Nice to have skill
SNO TOPIC

Environment Knowledge
1 DWH Topics
2 DATA MODEL TOPICS

SQL Basics & Cube MDX / DAX Querying

3 SQL Queries knowledge if you have Databases as sources
4 DAX Queries & MDX Queries

Power BI Concepts
1 Extraction of sources [On-Premise & Cloud]
2 Power Query Questions
3 Visuals and Custom Visuals
4 DAX functions modeling [userelationship, cross filter]
5 DAX Overview and few functions indetailed knowledge
6 Power BI Service[ Dataflow, Dashboards, Alerts, Embedding, APIs]
7 Power BI Mobile
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Power BI General Questions

8 Tell something about yourself?
9 Explain about your project?
10 Explain chellengig things…Explain complex things
11 Do you know any optimization steps / performance tuning methods…

Learning Aspect

We don't have Power BI in this project, but need to work on SAP BW

BI,will you be able to work?
12 [Upcoming project or POC [Proof Of Concept] going on in Power BI]
You are participating in an Existing BI Project …you need to work
along with Other BI Tools,
13 are you interested?
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