In general, I am not surprised by the results gathered in this study. This is mainly due to working in industry for a number of years and getting to personally know a wide range of individuals holding...

I experience scope creep firsthand almost every day at work when quality testing premarket immunoassay instruments. After a particular instrument is built by hand in an assembly line like fashion, my ...

At my current job, I have experienced a situation where a vital team member was temporality taken from my quality group to work in another project within the company. The individual chosen happen to b...

In my undergraduate drug discovery research laboratory, I often experienced situations where integration of two (or more) projects was required. When synthesizing relatively large, pharmaceutically ac...

In one of my projects at NJIT, my group member and I were tasked to come up with an innovative medical device as a final project. What we had decided on was a wearable device that had the ability to m...

At my current job, the Project Management processes of Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Closing were both generally not easy to follow and generally not as clear cut as I had originally thought. O...

In my current experience within a biomedical instrumentation company, the design review process was a pretty open and inclusive process in respects to suggestions to improve the product. A little over...

At my current job validating and verifying medical devices, it is extremely important to keep an accurate detailed notebook of everything down in the laboratory. This is critical because the devices t...

In my time as an undergraduate research assistant, I was charged to create, oversee, and execute my part in a much larger drug discovery and development project. Similar to what Roberto said, I was no...

Similar to the experience of Hiren stated above, I had an opportunity in industry to listen in on one (of many) design review meetings my company held on their new product. Normally, such meetings are...

In agreeance with all the above responses, the project manager has a lot of important responsibilities. I believe, however, that all these responsibilities fall under the single biggest challenge a PM...

As a PM, my approach to the management of personal resources (both available workable hours and work collaboration) would be to employ a system that informs all employees of everyone’s general work sc...

While I see the area for confusion when considering the appropriate time to consider source selection for a particular project, I believe this process generally falls under the excitation phase. Havin...

I 100% agree with the two previous comments that this course is by far the most useful and applicable course I have taken here at NJIT. Before this course, I only had a brief background of what the FD...

I believe that some of the methods a project manager can utilize would be to install smaller milestones/goals at various parts throughout the project. This would serve to give his/her employees a bett...