I agree with most of you. Also, it is very important to be clear and specific on what’s your need for the project. Make sure you do a good research and comparison before you chose your vendor. Also, for the…   Read more»

I think there are so many reasons why people leave work. But, the most important ones I think most people leave for are bad management that destroys projects, Un-fairness and relation between team members. from my experience before, I left…   Read more»

I like the way my company motivates each team of us. We have 5 different full teams, each team consists of sales engineer, technical engineers, and PM team. At the beginning of the year, top management distributes the cotta of…   Read more»

I think most of us had the same Idea is to have at least couple years of experience and then target a management level of a role. And, I agree with that. I would like to focus on one industry…   Read more»

when you write the specification sheet, SOP or BOM list. It has to be as accurate as you can. one point of view that it will not affect the product in a negative way, which I agree with you for…   Read more»

Sometimes I do support Sales to spec in a new project and see what is the best solution we can provide to the customer based on their application. However, sometimes Procurement plays a big role in these choices. As a…   Read more»

For my company, they used bottom-up estimation. As they like everything as much accurate as it could be based on analysis and facts. However, there is always some exception based on the volume of the project and what is the…   Read more»

I think Changing any part of the project can have a great effect. When you take this discussion you have to take in consideration the effect. that could be budget, the timing of the project, etc. So, you have to…   Read more»

we can think about the ratio between the two to define the success rate. Planned value is like the target for the team. It is set and defined before the project started as an expectation. However, the Actual cost is…   Read more»

I think for all the companies, the capital value is what differentiates one company form the other. Generated revenue is the goal of all profitable companies. It doesn’t matter if you have the greats idea that doesn’t generate revenue. To…   Read more»

From my past experience, When a PM starts a team development, they make sure they have backup more most of the members or at least for the critical ones. As a team when we accept a project we own it…   Read more»

I think design validation is to make sure your product does what is suppose to do. Not to define or to verify the output. Design verification is more to set the expectation and to make sure input equal to the…   Read more»

Design Verification is focused more on paperwork stage of the project preparation. I will include all design imputs: specification, industrial regulations, and any important information regard to project planning and live document such DID. And you compare it against your…   Read more»

I agree with the steps mentioned above for managing a project. I would only emphasize on how important to keep a record of everything and keep the document up to date and to follow up to make everything is going…   Read more»

The last couple weeks, we have been studying different methods and documents that help to manage the project. It is very important to keep these docs up to date. It is good to utilize these tools to help better manage…   Read more»

I agree with most of the posts above. however, at the end of the day, the company sign agreement and must be responsible to deliver on time. Customers don’t care what happens internally, They care about the results at the…   Read more»

Part of risk management is to make sure all the task are done on time in order to meet the Finish date. in the lecture, for this week we learned about the Gain chart and how it helps to organize…   Read more»

For the current project that I work on it with my company, The biggest concern is about part allocation. Flash ICs are one of the major components to build SSD and DRAM after the microcontrollers. It happens couple time that…   Read more»

The gain chart is very important to keep track of time and organize subtask. It helps you to visualize dependent and independent task to better manage your project. I learned how to construct my first gain chart during my first…   Read more»

For my company, we manufacture SSD for different industrial sectors as a solution. Based on customer application, it could be a hardware or a firmware modification. if it required hardware, we change the initial design, CAD schematics for PCB, connector,…   Read more»