On a similar note, I’ve had a team member from another division given to me. The greatest problem that I encountered is that the individual brought a level of toxicity to the team that had to be dealt with using…   Read more»

When the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, in my experience, this can lead to conflict. If you don’t provide the story, the story will be provided for you, and many times it won’t be factual….   Read more»

I believe that each of the components are important, yet I believe that stakeholder management is fairly essential. The project needs the support of management and without the knowledge of what the customers need, want, and expect, and what the…   Read more»

If a negative variance is determined, the project is over budget. A negative variance is your indicator that the project is behind schedule or over budget and that you need to take action. You might have to increase your budget…   Read more»

To speed up problem-solving in project management you must first define the problem correctly. The to define the problem will determine how to attempt to solve it. Once the problem is defined, you need to start to determine what is…   Read more»

Project scope management is most important as it refers to the total amount of work that must be done in order to deliver a product, service, or result with specified functions and features. It includes everything that must go into…   Read more»

A project where a big problem pushed back on our time was my capstone project during the peak of the pandemic. My team couldn’t get all the resources we needed to finish our project, along with if we had everything…   Read more»

  Quality assurance is the process/procedures implemented in the project which shows the overall objectives, specifications and measurements.    Quality control is the overall focus on the outputs of the project. Analysis/testing is done in this portion to make sure…   Read more»

Last semester I took a precursor for this course with Dr. Simon, and midway through this semester I started studying for the CAPM. Majority of what we learned in both courses actually helped me feel very prepared to take the…   Read more»

@anthonynjit  I can agree with Anthony, on how using Linked in gave opportunity to be added onto a project for “additional resources”. I think this method helped a lot as an undergraduate since it gave a lot of opportunity to…   Read more»

The simulation showed that the product was cytotoxic, and the first thing to do would be to go back to see the risk analysis to see if this was a high risk to begin with to ensure it was taken…   Read more»

When the performance reports are low, firstly as the PM I would see where the scores are low, and what specific part of the project is performing low amongst the team members. Then I would meet with all members of…   Read more»

Also, procurement management is a subset of resource management. Resource management refers to all resources whether they are people, skills that employees possess or materials. On the other hand, procurement refers to materials.  This is why I also agree that…   Read more»

If a person were to leave the team leaving a critical job behind in a critical stage, it would be important to have a contingency plan from the start. If it were to be me in the position of managing…   Read more»

In the mini-sim, we learned that having more vendors meant more time, money, and a broader range for the specs. Other things to consider are whether or not the service or product can be produced from within, which would also…   Read more»

In the mini simulation, procurement management was not affected because the qualities that a vendor should possess were already determined and remained unchanged. What changed in the project was the solicitation phase.  Concerning what might affect procurement management, possibly a…   Read more»

While HR can sometimes be looked over, they do play an important role in ensuring a health and positive working environment. Engineers are often stereotyped for not being able to communicate well. This can sometimes lead to unnecessary conflicts in…   Read more»

I have had a situation where the timeline of my project had to be pushed back. When managing my first project and having to look at deadlines and timelines, it was up to me to figure out how everyone’s timeline…   Read more»

If I was in charge of the budget I would mostly use a top down estimate and have a factor increase that is calculated depended on the largest investment. So if the top-down budget is $10 Million dollars and the…   Read more»