If you are going to begin spending money and time on a project I would take the precautions of ensuring the agreement is written so if your funding decides to pull their resources or not collaborate w...

As an undergraduate student who is graduating next semester, I found this score extremely useful. This class was my first exposure to the field of industry. No other class has covered the different de...

As Saad has mentioned I feel for most companies matrix based organization would be the most beneficial. I say this because your resources (employees) do not become redundant and the project manager ca...

We can all agree that it would be ideal to have a knowledgeable team with a good relationship. However I feel as a project manager when picking a project team you must ensure your team members are qua...

Both matrix and project based organizations have their advantages and disadvantages as a project manager. As a project manager I feel a significant factor in finding success is being able to create a ...

I can understand where many of you in this discussion are coming from, however I am going to have to respectably disagree. Although it is the responsibility of the company to ensure that they have min...

At times it is very unlikely to be able to eliminate all risk in a medical device. The article posted above does a great job explaining what "as far as possible" implies in the IPO. This just ensures ...

For low severity risks you are either going use acceptance or mitigation. You are going to have to determine if the benefit is worth the risk. If the benefit is worth the severity of risk you are taki...

There has been very good points made as to the benefits of large and small companies outsourcing for their design transfer into manufacturing process. I agree that small companies will often benefit f...

The verification and validation reports provide evidence for a company that their product inputs will directly lead to the product output. In order to confirm this is true you must design a test to va...

Although I have not yet been involved in a company meeting where meeting minutes were documented I can see why Dr. Simon has stressed the importance of the minutes in his lectures. These meeting minut...

As our classmates have previously mentioned lapses in the design control benefit no one and are just dangerous for the consumers. As a company manufacturing and distributing novice medical devices com...