Stakeholder engagement is critical to the successful completion of a clinical trial and maintaining lines of communication is essential between groups. I think one way that project teams can use stake...

I was honestly surprised to see that monetary compensation was not a top three reason as to why people stay or leave their jobs (based on the Career Systems International survey shown in lecture). Mon...

Whenever I am thinking about how a clinical trial would be carried out, I try to remind myself that one would effectively need an entire clinical institution to do so. For example, there are definitel...

One interest concept brought up in this week's lecture addressed the concepts of bottom-up and analogous estimations within the Project Cost Management Knowledge Area. Bottom-up estimation is a more a...

I think that smaller companies don't intentionally overlook quality control; however, we've seen in this course that quality control planning requires a lot of work, such as the work results, project ...

Team building projects/activities can be a great opportunity for co-coworkers to interact outside of the workplace and to learn how to navigate different professional relationships. For example, at a ...

I think the PM needs to adjust the level of flexibility for each scenario. For example, a PM may need to be more lenient with younger employees that do not have as much work experience and may require...

Maintaining team dynamics and professional relationships in the workplace is a reality of many project managers. The primary goal of a PM is to ensure that a project is progressing and this can be hin...

I think that industry and academic settings both prioritize patent protection and security of their technologies; however, academia does have a more collaborative approach to scientific research compa...

This is an interesting point and it wasn't completely clear. However, I think in larger/more established organizations naturally have short-term goals, but they also have long-term goals that can exte...

Overall, I think many projects are unsuccessful and this course has really helped highlight all of the intricacies, knowledge, and skills that are needed to execute a project correctly. Those companie...

At a non-profit I used to work at, the mode of communication was different when I came from the greater organization and specifically from my team's leader. The organization would typically communicat...

This is an interesting topic and probably one of the most important. Facilitating compromise in the workplace is an invaluable skill and knowing how to navigate professional relationships with differe...

I think that the appropriate number of PMs for a project should be relative to the project size. You don't want too many PMs, where there is an overlap in tasks that causes redundancy and ineffective ...

I can definitely recount several instances where projects were delayed due to underestimating task duration and lead-time for resource acquisition. The startup was interested in analyzing blood sample...