The types of risk mentioned in the original post of this thread, financial risk, schedule risk, resource risk, and quality risk, are all important components of the project. It is ideal to minimize ri...

Both email and Teams come with their advantages and disadvantages. Also, they are not direct substitutes for one another since they are completely different tools for different purposes. On Microsoft ...

As the original post mentions, email can be an effective method for communicating without setting up time consuming meetings. This type of discernment is needed by the project manager in order to maxi...

Based on the original post in this thread, it seems as though all projects, whether viewed as successes or failures, are actually successes. It seems as though any learning experience is a success, be...

Cross functional work is extremely important, but relies on the members of each party effectively doing their part and communicating. Often times, there is laziness in reaching out to research and dev...

Communication is of the utmost importance during the duration of a project. In my work experience, I prefer both teams and email, however, they each have their advantages and disadvantages. For inform...

I am slightly perplexed as to why the original post in this thread proposed that the less time a project takes, the less beneficial the project will be. How beneficial a product is to the customer is ...

It does seem that missing milestones is an unfortunate part of the project process. Sure, as aforementioned, missing milestones can lead to overall improvement of the product. That is, if the missed m...

It is clear that it is the responsibility of the regulatory departments, as well as other members of upper management, to monitor the trends that the FDA is following. Reviewing health and hazard eval...

It is important for any team member, especially the project manager, to be flexible. This means to consider other people's opinions as important, and not to be harsh when things do not go their way. H...

I do not think that a project should have a separate portion called "slack time". However, extra time should be added to various steps of the project that are expected to have delay. For example, why ...

There are various factors that are asked when the task is to find the root cause. Root cause analysis can be likened to a never ending nested doll stack, where one doll is opened to find another. When...

I don't believe it is wrong to state that there should always be a leader in the group. As life, and many novels and stories will tell us, groups tend to fall apart if there is no leader. Having a lea...

Based on my experience in the biomedical industry so far, every change in the product should be traceable. Even in basic or routine analysis or documentation, traceability and having a path to demonst...

While I understand the viewpoint that budget changes should be expected in a project plan, if the DSD is well specified, large shifts should not be highly expected. Shifts in budget usually occur for ...