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 th...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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 a...

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 equa...

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 proj...

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 everythi...

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 h...

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 abo...

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 tasks...

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 ...

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...

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 ...