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 ti...

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 t...

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 backu...

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 eq...

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 kno...

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 fi...

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 ...

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 h...

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 ...

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 responsibil...

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 th...

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 ...

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 fro...

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 accor...

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 a...