This disconnect doesn't really surprise me. It's very easy for someone who didn't spend much time working on a specific project (usually upper management) to take a quick look at some metrics they mig...

After becoming more familiar with managerial roles over this past semester, I can say that I don't particularly want to become a manager anytime soon. I have a newfound understanding and appreciation ...

I think my biggest potential motivator is good coworkers. I've made some real lasting friendships through work that have carried on even after parting jobs. It's interesting for me to learn more about...

I think these reasons will definitely vary based on the kind of work people do. I think these numbers are pretty reasonable for a private sector engineering job, and generally within my expectations. ...

The first capstone project I was assigned to suffered from scope creep, or rather a lack of scope definition. When the professor was describing the project at first, it was rather vague and only descr...

I could consider my one summer internship an integration of sorts. I was in charge of designing a website with Google Maps API, and eventually we would have to integrate it with external data coming i...

Although I haven't had any direct experience with procurement myself, I've caught glimpses of the processes in some previous jobs. When I worked in a restaurant, I often had to go back into storage to...

I think in general IPEC is always the framework for projects. What I've been told is that this cycle is typically disrupted when other people (usually higher-ups) hand you unexpected challenges and fo...

I think depending on the severity of the reason for recall, a number of scenarios could occur. For a situation where the risk to the consumer is small to moderate, as is with this EpiPen recall, the p...

I've only been part of an "unofficial" design review meeting, but from what some of my classmates have told me it's quite similar to what they experience. Everyone was emailed the document in review (...

I think the multitude of project document updates is one of the most important but often overlooked aspects of monitoring and controlling. All of these documents are going to be audited eventually so ...

I was working on a project during my undergraduate where I had to develop a rehabilitation glove for stroke patients. We had acquired a budget of $3000 and had to decide what we needed for a prototype...

Adding on to this, here are some more quality assurance tools and techniques: Pareto chart: This is a bar graph where length represents frequency (e.g. of complaints) or cost, and where the bars are a...

For vacations specifically, it helps a lot for a PM to talk with each team member they're managing and perhaps get a heads up on when exactly they may take a vacation. This will help you avoid conflic...

Thinking optimistically, I think the only way a missed milestone could be a positive would be when it reveals an issue. From what I gather, sometimes project managers don't have total control over the...