Obviously, I think all parts of the DDP are essential. If they were not, by now they would likely be obsolete. However, out of all of them, I agree, the Communication management is the most essential aspect. Communication is key for so many reasons, and the Design Development Plan contains communication information such as who is on the team, how to contact them, when meetings will be held, and the timeline for your work in which other people will be relying on you for. Without this accurate information, there is no hope for a project to stay on track and end up successful.
This is one of the most important part of the medical device project. The design development plan describes all the design controls, project layout and project scope. The plan describes all the team members including roles and responsibilities. This is where the team members should be assigned for right role for the project to lead successfully. The communication between the team members should be effective and the customer needs should be met out.
I don't agree with you. I think every part of the design development plan plays an equally important role. This will make your whole plan rigorous and organized, and help the project go on more efficiently. As Dr. Josh said "Including all of these other Project Management items in the design development plan is not normal practice. It is a best practice, however." In addition, the Gantt chart mentioned in the previous reply is also very important. It can help users better control the progress and observe the project progress.
While including all of these parts of the DDP is best practice, I would choose scope management plan and communications management plans as the most crucial. A well designed scope management plan will contain the stakeholders, scope statement, requirements, WBS, roles and responsibilities, and deliverables. Without this plan, the team will struggle with determining exactly who their clients are and what their main goals are. It is also important to specify the roles and responsibilities of each task in the WBS to make sure every task is accounted for. Another part of the DDP that should never be overlooked is the communications management plan. In order to combat any obstacles as soon as possible and stay on track, each member/department must be in contact with each other throughout design controls. If one department is failing to adhere to the tight deadline or not producing adequate results for example, they can notify the others during weekly meetings for assistance or advice on resolving the issue. The need to provide updates every week will also urge team members to stay on schedule.
The purpose of the design and development plan section is to provide investors with a description of the product's design, chart its development within the context of production, marketing, and the company itself, and create a development budget that will enable the company to reach its goals.
Considering all design development plan (DDP) areas final scope statement, scope management plan, quality management plan, communications management plan, and team member responsibilities have similar interest. However, I think the scope management and team responsibilities are a bit more substantial because the scope management related to the time and deadlines, which require accurate control. Also, team responsibilities diminish the wasted time that may happen if the team member did unwanted action or activities.
Scope management is definitely an important part of project management of medical devices. Gathering elements from different individuals certainly can bring additional elements potentially incongruent with others, but we need to better understand what the real scope is. The project manager along with the team, need to develop the skill of scope creation and ensure it is complete but also not to complex for implementation.
Another point I would like to share is the concept of scope creep. Along the project time line, the project team may become aware of items not considered initially, that always happens. However, we cannot ignore potential change. So the project manager needs to become skilled at helping the team evaluate the potential changes and justify them. Scope creep can definitely impact projects negatively but when new information is brought to the project, there is an obligation to evaluate whether scope is going to change or maintain the line with the current scope. The change will probably effect cost, schedule and bunch of other things.
To start with, DDP stands for design and development plans. DDP aims to describe the product or design to create a chart of its production cycle, marketing, and company procedures and regulations. In my view, a person who needs to manage these must get involved with all of the company's departments to be an effective person to create a DDP. There are majorly 3 areas that need to be covered. These are Organizational development, product development, and market development. These elements can have different names or change according to the area they are used in because of the nature of the job, but each element is a part of achieving the goal, which is DDP's purpose. Individually every department can work in perfection, but without the DDP or, in other words, a control mechanism to check and coordinate all of these mechanisms, it will no work as efficient it can be. As I have said in the beginning, DDP must be able to get into each department's mindset, and to be able to do it, the person who creates DDP must be exposed to all the departments within the company.
Design Development Plan (DDP) contains:
*final scope statement
*scope management plan
*quality management plan
*communications management plan
*team member list/responsibilitiesCommunication management plan is the most important part of the DDP because communication management plan contains information on how to contact people and the rules to contact people involved in the project.
But I also feel that Quality of the project is equally important because it shows if the quality of the project management is going well or not ?? It allows us to keep track of how well the project is going and if it is going in the right track or not ? Whether or not it needs to be modified ?
Which phase do you think is the most important ? Please feel free to agree or disagree.
The imoprtant parts of DDP are The purpose of the design and development plan section is to provide investors with a description of the product's design, chart its development within the context of production, marketing, and the company itself, and create a development budget that will enable the company to reach its goals.
Each part of the Design Development Plan has its own importance however the scope management plan is especially important because it sets boundaries for the project. A project can have excellent communication and quality protocols however without a strong grasp of the scope, a project can easily become oversized and understaffed. A communications management plan can become worthless if a project grows beyond its initial scope. By first developing a strong scope management plan, a proper communications management plan can be developed that will require minimal development throughout the project.
All plans of the DDP could be considered important as they each serve their own purpose. Without one section, the entire project can fall apart. I believe it also comes down to having a good balance of everything. If each part can act promptly and effectively in what is supposed to be completed, a project will go well. However, if I had to pick a single part of the DDP, which I believe would be the most important, it would have to be the scope management plan. This part essentially sets the foundation for the project from which everything else comes from. Without a solid foundation, the other plans, and thus the project, could easily fail.
It is hard to say which part is important from the DDP. DDP is everything that the project has. But if I had to choose it would be the Gantt chart as it has all the schedule i.e, the timeline of the project. This provides all the activities taking place in the project and the current status of the project which will help any person looking at the chart in providing brief information on the project. It helps in keeping track of the regular activities which is very important for the project. It is useful to know the timeline of the project, resources needed, and the order in which the tasks to be completed.
This is an interesting question. I would say DDP as a whole is important for a project to work in a precise manner. But the most important this amongst the DDP I would say is the Gantt chart. The Gantt chart gives a clear idea about the timeline of the projects. The projects are time-bound so it's very necessary for the work to take place within the deadlines.
I agree with some of my classmates' opinions, I don't think I would say one part of the DDP is more important than the other. All the information provided in the DDP provides a well-established foundation to execute the project. If one piece of information is missing the project as a whole would suffer the consequences.
I believe every part of the DDP is very important in their own way. However, if I had to choose one to be the most important it would have to be the scope management plan. I chose this because it is important to know what you are designing, who you are designing it for and when each deliverable should be done by. If you're working on a project and you don't know what you're doing or when it should be done by, it's not going to turn out the way everyone is hoping for it to turn out.
