A great part of a companies success is its employees. If a company only rewarded teams and not individuals, then all an employee has to do is seek to be in a very strong team. Essentially that employe...

I found that the best way to avoid this tunnel vision is to have thorough planning. Whenever starting a project, it is vital to examine all routes available. It is also important to explore each optio...

This class taught me a great deal. From the definition of a project, all the way to finalizing a project. I learned about risk assessment, about the project life cycle, about different departments and...

Establishing good relationships with vendors is critical to your company's success. Without a strong relationship, you won't be able to produce as much revenue as hoped for. Here are some tips to mai...

I agree with gingeranderson, a company should look at how much time, effort, and cost its going to take to in-source a clinical trial. They then should call a CRO and get a quote from it and compare t...

I would definitely pick an engineering role. This is because, engineering roles are a lot more interactive in terms of hands on projects and technical skills. An engineering role deals with the detail...

Filling a position of an employee that performed critical work for a project can be very challenging. This is especially because he/she is probably an expert in the tasks they perform for the project ...

I believe our company tackles this issue wisely. Each employee has a manager that practices reactive management. But each employee is assigned to a team and each team has a lead. That lead practices p...

I don’t think that using the same supplier but a different coating would satisfy the dual source requirement. Using a different coating might not be as useful and productive because each coating has a...

In the monitoring and controlling phase, it is very important to keep track of unexpected growth. That growth can be in terms of monetary value. The project might go through a scope change that would ...

A change request at Lockheed Martin works in a very similar manner. First the person submitting the change request must log it on a special program and that program. That program will ask him a series...

This week's lecture slightly touched on scope growth and how it is one thing to watch out for as part of the monitoring and controlling phase. This is usually a very hard thing to monitor in big compa...

We have a very efficient way of tackling this dilemma. Every two weeks each team sits in a room and looks through the work needed to be performed for the following two weeks. Based on this, we write t...

The project manager should look at other vendors in a timely manner and contact them for a quote. He should also look at the all their track records and only contact the ones with a clean record. He c...

To have the deliverables ready in time, as a manager, you need to take certain steps and plan ahead. First you need to be a very organized and communicative manager. You need to set deadlines, communi...