Working as a time and familiarizing each other with the general points or themes of the work that each of you is doing is crucial to project team success. It does not require an extensive amount of time to become…   Read more»

It is particularly important to include and consider every stakeholder’s potential influence and interest in the procurement process. There needs to be communication between the procurement team and the stakeholders at the right levels to ensure the right vendor is…   Read more»

I agree that having multiple vendors as backup is a wise risk management decision. Hopefully, everything goes perfectly according to plan but when things change or fail it is important to have a backup plan to switch vendors and mitigate…   Read more»

Quality Assurance focuses on the process of quality, while Quality Control focuses on the quality of output. Both quality assurance and quality control are what make up quality management. They are equally as important to the success of a project…   Read more»

There can be two communication plans. There should be a high level communication plan for communicating with stakeholders. I would say high level because there would be no need for stakeholders to know every detail of the tasks being performed…   Read more»

It would seem that if you have a member of the project team going to maternity leave there should be time to have a plan set in place. This can be solved with a contract person hired to temporarily fill…   Read more»

I find a lot of times poor planning on a project happens when the right people are not included in a project from conception. I believe that before project can begin planning phase you must have a PM assigned with…   Read more»

Yes, there is another systematic way to list and assign tasks. I believe defining a complete scope of the project is crucial to listing, organizing and assigning tasks. The scope of the project will help you to name the deliverables…   Read more»

Each expert of the project will give input on the timeline to complete their portion of the project. As we learned in Dr. Simon’s lectures in the planning phase we can determine a project timeline by creating the task schedules….   Read more»

If coming to a low performing project with an already assembled team, the PM will need to review of each of the team members assignments. Each team member would need to briefly state their responsibility and the plan laid out…   Read more»

I believe formal training in business and project management are essential to  actually pursuing a job in project management and being successful in the undertaking. The management style techniques that have been presented in many of our classes give a…   Read more»

The success of a project is different depending on the point of view in relation to the project. If we are talking about a medical device or drug the overall success for the investor can be viewed on a high…   Read more»

I think it is possible to get the project back on track as long as you have been able to identify what went wrong and why to mitigate the budget and time issues. Having a full scope of the project…   Read more»

The lines do get blurred and sometimes I could see myself getting outside of the normal parameters of an in-office workday. I would create a schedule of tasks and set reminders to complete tasks according to the time schedule I…   Read more»

I find working from home can be very rewarding and successful. You have to project mange your own schedule. I like that it is much easier to get my personal things done while working from home. I am able to…   Read more»

I think that project management works and improves all processes in healthcare and medical research. On a high level project management offers a well structured map in both healthcare and medical research. I think maintaining timelines, budgets,  applying risk management…   Read more»

In order to set a tone of collaboration as the leader of a project management team or any other team, it starts by example. As project manger you have to create spaces where expectations are clearly set for responsibilities and…   Read more»

I prefer complex projects. This type of project has many tasks and require a lot of planning. I like the planning phase best and keeping things as simple as possible is best. It is taking a broad and complicated task…   Read more»

@tiavance23 Project deadlines are important to meet and should have an initial plan on how each deadline will be met. There should be an outline of work that needs to be completed and weekly check-ins to check for progress or…   Read more»

@tiavance23 I agree communication is very important when working with difficult people. Trying to find out what the problem is can be a good idea. However, if the person is difficult and not willing to communicate properly email is the…   Read more»