Hiring a project or development manager: what are good interview questions?

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Published on 2009-06-18T09:05:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 11:13 UTC
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What questions would you ask a candidate applying for a software project or development manager position?

Please could you submit one question per answer (with multiple answer if necessary) or a sequence of related questions. This way eventually all questions will get ordered by how good we all think they are.

Please also provide a short guidance for evaluating possible answers.

UPDATE:

It seems that a large proportion of the answers so far are aimed at generic management skills. What would you ask someone who is going to manage software development, let's say in your organisation? What knowledge, skills and attitude will you be looking for in the candidate replies?

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