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RE: Priorities for Projects

Priorities and the scope of a project need to be managed like any other aspect. I think in the case of most projects the priorities differ between the...

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RE: Skills Learned in this Class

For me, this course reinforced the importance of good management of a project regardless of its size. I have noticed how a lot of the topics covered c...

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RE: How to make good relation with vendors

Some orders from vendors are also made to order to certain specifications. This means there is usually some delay between ordering and receiving from ...

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RE: Different PM techniques based on size

Smaller companies have much less people to manage making it simpler in a way but in other ways more crucial as individuals in smaller companies are mo...

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RE: What’s Your Motivator?

The main motivator for me is the opportunity to create something new. I also enjoy finding solutions to the various problems that occur during the cou...

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RE: Specifications: A double edged sword?

A metric for a specific feature should always fall within the defined specifications; otherwise the documentation is meaningless and must be changed a...

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RE: Communication Management

The method of communication management should be tailored to each specific company as various factors such as hierarchies, communication infrastructur...

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RE: Six Sigma and Project Management

Six Sigma actually contains a specific project methodology when working with projects that will produce a new product as opposed to improving business...

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RE: Closing Phase

As the lecture also mentioned, a very important component of the closing phase is to properly record everything so that information can be used for fu...

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RE: planned value vs actual costs

I think its important to remember that the monitoring and control phase occurs throughout the entire lifespan of the project and is always a factor in...

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RE: Post-project lessons learned

With a capstone project I was involved in, a major lesson we learned was adjusting the project scope due to limitations found in the design. With this...

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RE: Unexpected Time Delays - miniSim

I think the consequences of risking the project with poor experimental data are much greater than any time delays. If poor experimentation fails to un...

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RE: Points to look for while out sourcing

If the outsourced part is critical to the devices specific function, extra communication and scrutiny is required between the project team and the out...

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RE: Medical Devices

With all of these I think it depends on the severity of the deviation the failure causes to the original scope of the project. Sometimes losing a vend...

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RE: task Scheduling :factors

Unforeseen occurrences are should be factored in with task scheduling. If a schedule is too tight then any delay will cascade into other tasks which d...

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