Having tunnel vision can be detrimental in situations in which the root cause of a problem must be found, like in the simulations. With tunnel vision, someone does not consider all aspects of a proble...

Based on the survey, one overarching goal of mine has always been to help others. As cliché as it sounds, I have always wanted to do something meaningful that would have a direct, positive impact on p...

Like many others, I have always had this idea that I would want to work as an engineer for a few years before transitioning to a more management-based position. However, I am not completely sure anymo...

Project managers play a major role in impacting team motivation. Based on attitude and character, a project manager has the capability to either help the team’s motivation or hurt it. A good project m...

Although it is not a skill, one of the best things I learned from this class was the importance of interpersonal skills. After the lecture in which Dr. Simon emphasized the importance of interpersonal...

My motivator has changed quite a bit over the years. Before college, I would say that my biggest motivator was competition. I enjoyed competing against my friends to see who could do better and it wor...

Like many others, my most prominent experience with scope creep was through my senior capstone project. The project that my team thought of was to create an assistive communication device for patients...

Communication is vital for the successful completion of a project. To answer the first question, I agree with many others who think that the project manager is ultimately responsible for most of the c...

In a past internship of mine, I was working in a small group of people to rollout training material for a new overarching company software. My team was very small and to complete all the training mate...

There will always be occasions in which milestones may be missed, and this could occur for a variety of reasons. Milestones are essentially “checkpoints” to make sure that the project is moving forwar...

Scheduling a project is a difficult task, especially when coordinating the availability of resources and team members. As discussed in the lectures, planned absences or vacations should be notified to...

Gantt charts are extremely useful in portraying a projects schedule, milestones, and dependencies. Based on task dependencies, certain tasks may have to be completed in a particular order. Using the e...

There are multiple factors that can cause a project to fail, many of which have been discussed in this topic already. Personally, I believe the two biggest factors that can cause a project to fail is ...

The closing phase is imperative to any project as it ensures all aspects of the project have been completed as desired. As discussed in the lecture, there are many different processes and tasks that m...

Like @sts27, I struggled with logging work well during my undergraduate studies. I never enjoyed doing so, and therefore, the details of any logs I had done were always lacking. This especially affect...