I think that being a project manager is a lot more hands on and focused than people think it is. There is an idea the project managers don't really have to do too much and its just the group that has ...

Hiring team members with a broad range of skills is preferable in my opinion because it allows for more discourse and opinions on certain issues. If I were to only hire experts in individual fields th...

I think that in an ideal world a project manager would need to find a way to have both parties satisfied since they both contribute to the overall success of the project. However, in life we encounter...

Stakeholders are those who fund a project and in many cases are often the contractors or the people who need a certain task to be done. They hold a large portion of the power since they are the ones w...

In my experience, I think one of the biggest aspects of planning that is often overlooked and causes some trouble in the long run is not asking all the necessary questions in the beginning of a projec...

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As a PM, being able to handle conflict within a team is just as important as the other housekeeping skills a PM has. Conflicts start from many different sources within a team and its important as a le...

I feel like both kinds of settings have their own advantages but I would personally prefer to work remote. Working remote allows for more availability for groups to meet since you don't have to worry ...

While project management in itself is a career path people choose to go into, the lessons and morals learned from project management allow us to excel in any setting we find ourselves in. The basics o...

In my opinion I think it all depends on each individual project and what you are tasked to do. There are times in research where a project involves a long and redundant process that must be done, whet...

Verification and validation are both process included in the process of quality assurance in manufacturing and research. Verification is when a product is tested to make sure that it meets the design ...

Design review meetings are meetings that happen at the end of each stage of the project process. This is when the team approves documents and allows for the project to move on further to next steps. I...

I feel as though culture in any team is often overlooked as a big factor in performance and progress. Even if we look at it in a much further view such as sports, we often see the teams with "culture"...

Misclassifying a medical device can have a lot more complex consequence than the typical ones we would think of. The reason for this is because each class has their own regulatory criteria as well as ...

Drugs and medical devices are both crucial parts of the healthcare field, and they both have their own purposes whether used separately or combined. At this point in our engineering careers, we have a...