A non-conforming material report (NCMR) is something that must get taken up with the current vendor to prevent the incorporation of defective equipment into a medical device project. An NCMR is gener...

One of the main reasons people leave work is poor management. This can occur when a manager is not competent enough to keep track of all members on a team which leads to an imbalanced assignment of t...

This course has definitely given me a better understanding of how contract research organizations (CRO) are managed, which is of particular interest to me since I have been working in a CRO for almost...

Tunnel vision is generally defined as the tendency to focus on a single goal with a limited point of view. The definition itself indicates that it is not an ideal element for project management, espe...

One motivation for working on designing a medical device project is to finally get a chance to apply all that you learned in the years of being an undergraduate and going through grad school. It is a...

I currently work in a project-based organization, which as we learned in lecture is run by project managers who govern project teams consisting of members from all vital departments (production, quali...

Procurement management is a process carried out by a project manager that requires them to collaborate with the purchasing department to determine the most optimal vendor for any particular provision....

It goes without say that communication management is an essential aspect of a company's environment as it ensures a consistent flow of information to each entity in a company in order for them to fulf...

The primary difference between quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) is that QA correlates the industry's standards to the project at hand, whereas QC ensures that the standards are being me...

As learned in lecture, stakeholders can be a wide variety of individuals ranging from patients to the financial investors that support the project. This goes to state that risk can come in many forms...

Planned value (PV) and actual cost (AC) are values that are implemented during the monitoring and controlling phase to give the project manager an idea of their progress in terms of time and budget. ...

The diagram explaining the relationship between PM processes and design controls (from the Initiating and Planning lecture) indicates that design controls can easily exist in more than one PM process....

One of the changes that occurs in my company is the managing of the bill of materials (BoM). Whenever a general change control is carried out, it must include a justification as to why the change is b...

I currently work at a project-based clinical research company where I process and manufacture cell-based infusion products for the treatment of conditions that are not easily treatable (myelomas, mela...

It seems that the difference between planned value (PV) and earned value (EV) is a project's way to determine whether or not it is on track on a financial level. If a project is budgeted at $5 millio...