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Qualities of a Manager Throughout the semester we have been exposed to different qualities a manager needs to have. Among which are interpersonal skills, organization, and crisis management. I was wondering how the qualitie... |
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Avoiding Tunnel Vision One of the major problems that I found with my approach to simulations throughout the semester is the fact that I tunnel vision and close of other options once I go down a route until my current thoug... |
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RE: What is retention ? I believe that it depends on the job and the nature of the work since you may not need highly skilled labor for the task and employees may be expendable. sounds harsh but we see this in jobs like tech... |
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RE: Optimizing Clinical Trials Using Technology I don't believe any information is transferable from 1 trial to another and patient data protection laws make using it without consent impossible. Technology can be used however to expedite patient se... |
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Are you an X or Y? Understanding ourselves and our natural inclinations is an important to improving ourselves. Do I naturally find faults in others or see what good they do? Understanding this will make you aware of wh... |
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RE: Discussion Topic: Costs and managing your investment To answer the first question, we need to look at the factors that influence R. Aside from what the others have said, there is also the companies financial situation and overall business goal. If it is... |
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Deadlines and SOP's As many of us know, there is a lot of paperwork involved in most processes within projects whether it is for monitoring or documentation purposes and individual companies have different Quality Manage... |
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Specifications: A double edged sword? As we all know specifications are essential for any product and not only affect the validation and verification of a product but everything that is the product. We saw in the minisim this week one of ... |
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Unexpected changes to the Project In the most recent simulation, we saw a situation where marketing went off on their own and their actions directly affected the timeline/schedule of the hydrosurf project. When making a schedule and t... |
In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development |
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RE: Changing Control Usually change has a driving factor which comes mainly in the three, not mutually exclusive, flavors; necessity, efficiency, and profitability. In the first situation, change is unavoidable because th... |
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RE: Closing Phase So as to not be too repetitive, having a third party review certain key documents that you may be bias towards as well as having different technicians perform testing/assembling according to the testi... |
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Be wary of EV and statistics calculated with it As you may have seen this week, you can see how your cost is aligning with budget and estimated cost using the techniques learned this week. However, though this may seem obvious, the tasks distribute... |
In forum Project Management Process and Medical Device Development |
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RE: Factors to look for while evaluating change request The first step is identifying the type of change being requested. It can be to the BOM, Labeling, paperwork, testing procedures, storing procedures, sterilization procedures, disposing procedure, pac... |
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RE: Points to look for while out sourcing One thing to remember is that most if not all companies already have an "Approved Vendor List", or AVL, for all different products and services that your company may need. The companies on the list ar... |
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RE: Scope Creep One thing that we need to remember is that successful project execution is not always the end goal, from a corporations standpoint, the end goal is the best way to secure financial revenue and fulfill... |
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