Interaction through online means was actually a rather useful skill to further develop through this class. Social skills are key in industry and everything is digital based where alot meetings and com...

An important aspect is proper communication via email or video conferences. communication can remedy many issues and also help strengthen a relationship to begin with. One thing I have noted with supp...

I have seen the opposite actually in industry so far in regards to rewarding "individual effort". There were a few rather big milestones hit upon my time at my company and generally the entire project...

There are rather evident benefits to retaining talent. But it is also dependent on the job in which you are retaining the talent for. If it is a rather skilled position, like a CNC machinist or a desi...

I think there are a few factors to this question. Some people can very well be very involved in their project and want to see a project come to fruition. Which can very well be a motivating factor tha...

Typically what motivates me is that my work can directly effect a patient so taking that into mind it helps me be motivated. This thought helps me maintain a standard of work and also use a strong cod...

I do believe that a managers motivation can directly feed into the project teams motivation. If the leader of the project is not passionate or motivated about a project it is tough to believe the team...

As everyone stated above, there are a whole host of reasons why someone would leave their job. I think a main contributing factor is due to mundane projects and day to day activities. I have heard cou...

I believe most of us go into engineering hoping to start out on the technical side of things. For me, that was what I was interested in for sure. I enjoy utilizing the skill set learned through school...

Communication is imperative to the success of any project, especially with larger companies. One thing I think is important is for the project manager to have a proper communication stream with upper ...

Agreed, I do not see much value from selecting an alternate source from the same company. I also do not see as much value in selecting a second source all the time for critical components. Other measu...

I think human resource management plays a key role in ensuring employee turnover is not high. There are rather steep learning curves from company to company and if one medical device company has to co...

Within my company, budget cuts are typically handled through re-distribution of responsibilities. The project manager of my team took on a lot more responsibility once cuts were administered. Addition...

The comments above really touched upon the different types of changes in the monitoring and controlling phase. Within larger companies typically what I have noted is that ECOs are much more common tha...

I would have to agree that out of the five listed, effective communication is key for any project. From my experience, alot of projects have teams that are spread across evenly throughout the world. E...