Initiating a project is the hardest part because you have to have an idea and a product that others can see as a product. It might work in your head but can you communicate it well enough so others ca...

This week we learned that there were three types of organizations. I am stuck between project based and functional organizations. They both have their fair share of pros and cons. One major difference...

Communication is a very useful and crucial skill when it comes to working with in a project team. Another crucial skill would be collaboration. This is a very important skill because you need to be ab...

I think that hiring more employees would allow for all projects to be completed in the company. Yes the company would have to pay more workers however there would be more income coming into the compan...

If I had to chose a project team the first skill I would look for would be their knowledge on the topic of the project. For example as stated in the first post, if the project is on electronics the te...

After listening to the lecture this week one statement stuck with me. Dr. Simon was talking about a bone plate and he was saying if you claim that the bone plate can cure cancer that would make it a c...

I think one skill would be communication and ability to work with others. Being a PM means you have many people you have to be in charge of and if you do not know how to handle or talk to your fellow ...

@cjm64 I agree that the underlying concepts are the same overall for project managers. But I do not think that switching would be that difficult. I think that if a project manager should be able to wo...

There are a couple of qualities that go into being a Project Manager such as, effectives communication skills, strong leadership, good decision making, ability to work with others and most of all tech...

I do not understand why oral and written can both be defended in court. I assumed since a written agreement is a piece of paper and has signatures meaning that the terms written above are agreed with ...

I agree because at first when I read what kbs27 said I was very confused because they used verbal and oral and I assumed they were both the same. But as you have stated they are not because verbal can...

When I first saw this class I thought it was going to be about medical devices and how to build them. But I had no idea it was going to be an entire course on how the real world would actually be. Thi...

I agree that in the real world not everything will work out the way you want it as in working with people you are friends with. But it is also important to work with people who you know you can get al...

Since we are doing project-based organization it is very tough to answer this question. As the teams were made the project managers were given little time to go around and talk to each department and ...

My team has had our first in-person meeting this week and we went over the gantt chart and what exactly needs to be done first so the rest of the project can get going. For example the DID which is ac...