While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat in the electrical engineering dept, there was a shortage of software engineers. Whenever someone finds out that there was a software engineer with any k...

As a nuclear engineer, I have experience working at nuclear plants in probabilistic risk assessment. At one particular nuclear plant, they use bayesian updating to calculate the risk of a component fa...

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I was tasked with just replacing a component on a system on the submarine. It was just a simple change out of a component that they said was an old, de...

As a nuclear engineer who worked on submarines, a part of the job is lowering radiation exposure or risk for the navy (the customer who works on the product). This means understanding the nature of th...

In my experience, one generally starts following the process ideally: Initiating Processes, Planning Processes, Executing Processes, Closing Processing. While trying to follow the process, problems us...

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, the culture for the design review meeting was rather relaxed. The design review meeting is schedule at least 4 weeks in advanced so there is ample time...

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I held several design review meetings and they were usually fairly quick. This was due to the fact that weeks before the design review meeting, I would...

ECO gives the chance for a team to admit a mistake was made or a design can be approved and effectively, document and execute that change. The process is first identifying the mistake or improvement a...

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I would hold bi-weekly teleconferences with all parties involved in the project. This included people at the Naval Research Laboratory, Lockheed Martin...

Another challenge that PMs face is personnel resources or enough people with the right skills to do a job. Sometimes you have a job and you either don't have enough people available or enough people w...

When reading this question, the term "enterprise environmental factors" comes to mind which relates to the companies culture, people available and software used. In this situation, I think the compani...

I think source selection should be done in the executing process. In the planning phase, you are developing many aspects such as the DDP which includes the GANTT chart. I think you should wait until e...

I believe that missing a milestone is really a bad thing in industry. While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, milestones are set and those are part of a contract. When you don't meet those mi...

While working at General Dynamics Electric Boat, I worked on projects that were broken down into departments and other projects that were broken down into "area of expertise" or categories. I can hone...

I think the biggest difference would be the regulations that you have to follow and know in different countries. The plan.do.check.act cycle, PM processes, and design controls can be applied to any si...