This is my second course with Dr.Simon as I had previously completed Medical device development. This course is more beneficial to students who are looking for jobs after completion of course, to work...

During the planning phase, the project outline should be executed as per Gantt chart. As it provides the project plan and its progress over time. It keeps track of deadlines, milestones and hours work...

The validation is where the process of evaluating the design/process during or at the end of the product development, meeting intentionally the end-user needs. Successful design validation require tho...

Planned value is the assumed value of the work/expense to be completed in a given time whereas the actual cost is the total expense incurred upto date. It will be a better budget planning if the actua...

Getting the right customer input through the product development cycle is essential to know whether the companies are aiming at the desired product to the markets. Various customer perspectives can be...

The challenges faced by the Project Manager could be internal corporate problems like not defining the goals or objectives properly and that would cause problem in the long run. One of the important p...

Accurate time estimation is an accurate skill in project management. Without an assigned timeframe, it is difficult to estimate the period of the project. Prior to the assigned tasks/ project, all the...

Closing phase is the final phase in the project life cycle. It ensures recording project documents, making final payments, completing all the deliverables of the project, confirming whether the work i...

Project Execution is the longest phase in the project management cycle. If you need to control and monitor the project, you need to establish a set of project management processes. These management pr...

The factors that contribute to the success of the project include well defined team goals, effective communication, managing project scope, group thinking capability, assigning roles to team members a...

Design Validation is one of the important steps in medical devices design and development processes. The goal is to meet the user needs, device to work in the user environment, safety of the equipment...

In the planning phase, sufficient details are required for the desired project development plan and permit to work under validation of the deliverable. User’s needs is one of the important one to disc...

Maintaining a virtual project team with multiple cultural backgrounds could be a huge challenge. Leading a multicultural project team successfully requires competencies that go well beyond the technic...

The project proposal should be informative and persuasive. This could be a seed that gives birth to million-dollar projects. So, project proposals should be made more precise, object oriented, custome...

It is said over time like, Failure is the stepping stone to success and I think it is obviously true. As mistakes happen over time, but it should be concerned that the team should learn from its mista...