Project Priorities should be set up according to the deliverables. If a project has different compartments to it or so as to say has a different parts which needs to be assembled together such that the final product is released…   Read more»

I agree with what the previous users have mentioned before in the topic. It is very crucial to motivate the team and also yourself as if the team is not motivated enough then things will not get completed. The work…   Read more»

Engineer and Manager are two very different terms considering the role which they play in a project. The engineer plays a technical role in a project most of the time while the manager plays  more of an administrative role in…   Read more»

I would choose the Project Managerial role . Initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure report all come under the responsibility of a Project Manager. The role has a way to string together all the departments in a way…   Read more»

I think the biggest and the greatest motivator anyone can have in. this field is they themselves. No one will be a better competitor than we ourselves. We should strive to move forward every single day with one pure goal…   Read more»

As mentioned by gingeranderson, there is a close connection between challenges and praises. People who work in projects which have the same monotonous work for the whole time will eventually be frustrated and might quit the job. That is one…   Read more»

Communication is something which needs to be built in a team and it is a very core factor of a project team. Without proper communication however skillful or dextrose the team be, they will always fail to produce the right…   Read more»

Quality Assurance and Quality control have a different meaning in their own aspects. I will be mostly writing about the differences which both of the terms mean QA aims to prevent defect which QC aims to identify and fix defects….   Read more»

Human resource management is the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policies relating to them, and developing strategies to retain them. As a field, HRM has undergone many changes over the last many years, giving it an even…   Read more»

Team development is one of the hardest process in the whole project. Picking the right people with the right skill set and the commitment which is needed for the completion of the task. based on the previous comment which have…   Read more»

Projects have definite timepoints in which subparts of the projects get finished or people who are involved in the project to give an update to the project manager on the process. These are called as milestones which the generally the…   Read more»

There are many factors which contribute to the success of a project, one of the most important for me being the teamwork which contributes most. having a clear idea of the outcome, having a good communication among the team members,…   Read more»

Closing phase is probably the most impactful phase of the project cycle. It may be addressed as the final step for a project or an initial step for another domain. The closing phase of any project will include personnel relocation,…   Read more»

Scope creep is what happens when changes are made to the scope of a project without any control. Naturally, changes occur to projects always. It is that very rare project that ends up delivering exactly what was asked for on…   Read more»

Working in a laboratory is no less than working in a corporate sector. There are projects which needs to be taken care of. There are experiments or the assignments which are to be designed. A design change request can be…   Read more»

Design validation is being done by the project seniors and is a very minute and very meticulous  process. it takes a whole lot of effort and time to design an experiment or even a design. It takes even more time…   Read more»

As a graduate student in a lab, Project execution is a very difficult task to maintain. Whenever a principal investigator has a idea the experiments which is required  to execute and prove the hypothesis the project needs to be executed…   Read more»

The above points have actually intrigued me a lot about risk management. What can be termed as a safe risk or what can be termed as exaggerated risk are probably something  which we might have to look into more. I…   Read more»

My project management expertise has been from a  different background other than from a biomedical field. I had done my internship in a reputed electrical powerplant and have had the oppurtunity to work closely with the lead project manager of…   Read more»

 I can briefly add into the topic of how to build a team, especially how myton has described it in his words. A project needs a good leader and a great team. A team is as good as its leader….   Read more»