For me, goals are what keep me motivated. When what I am doing aligns with my short term and long term goals, it makes me passionate about the work I do because it is helping me get to the places I wa...

I think that an interesting thing to add to this thread is that while many people put in extra hours to increase productivity, research shows that it can actually make you less productive. There are a...

Every project and team is unique. For example, certain projects may be straight forward and predictable while other projects are more complex and risky. These two different types of projects would hav...

While an outline of a communication management plan documented as a SOP can be beneficial to keeping the entire company on the same page, I think it is also important to give the project manager leewa...

A WBS should be a break down of every project task and deliverable defined by the project scope. If the WBS is poorly constructed the following can occur: missed deadlines, going over budget, scope cr...

I think another thing that is important to address in a supplier contract is to clearly define responsibilities. For example, if something goes wrong with the product, is it the company or supplier's ...

I think it is important to have some buffers in the schedule to account for any unexpected delays for any reason. The time frame and budget is set when a project is approved. It is better to overestim...

One important component of closing is creating a project closure report. This project closure report lists every activity that is required in order to close the project. This report enables the projec...

This semester I am in part 2 of my capstone project. We have all of our protocols written to begin construction and testing but we are missing one key component of the device. The materials got delive...

I think one of the main issues lies in increased customer demands. When the design team first hands off the project to the manufacturing team, a certain plan is made based on the expected demand. Once...

I agree with everything that is said above. In addition, I think there should be a re-evaluation step which happens once the project has started to make sure that the way everything was planned is wor...

If a problem in the planning is identified mid-scope it should be reassessed with the entire team present, taking into account resources and timing. Pushing forward with flaws in the scope can cause b...

While I think all of the above are important, I think it is important to assess the situation. While a team member that is not good at communicating and keeping other team members up to date can certa...

I am currently working on a capstone project. We won a $3000 URI grant to design and fabricate our device. This grant must be used only for this project. As a result, we based our entire budget around...

In my experience, at design review meetings, everyone attending the meeting reads the document beforehand. The meeting starts by everyone saying their initials one by one and how long it took them to ...