If a vendor is providing a medical device project with defective equipment/packaging, then they need to be made aware of it immediately so that they can either address it, or at least prevent it from ...

Based on what we have learned so far, one could say that the execution process is rather one of the more simpler phases of the design cycle (assuming one has a competent project team). This is the ph...

As we learned earlier in the course, emotional intelligence determines approximately 70% of success, which without a doubt applied to the MiniSim. The only real way to fail the first part of the Mini...

As a PM for BoneFix working on the Fset1 growth factor product, I would constitute organizational diagrams such as a Gantt chart, a design matrix, and a Pareto chart so that the project can be carried...

One of the major driving factors of a project is determining the project's cost and budget, which without a doubt becomes more complicated the longer a project's duration is. The PMBOK guidebook dedi...

I currently work in industry at a clinical research project-based company where I manufacture cell-based transfusion products intended for treating patients diagnosed with a variety of cancer. From w...

The first factor in understanding Gantt charts is being able to associate tasks to one another in terms of their dependencies. These relationships are known as Finish to Start (FS), Start to Finish (...

The advantage to having a risk management team internally associated with a project team is the absence of "information silos", in which departments withhold knowledge and information from one another...

The concept of a risk/benefit ratio is to acknowledge that the most promising rewards come at a price. Immunotherapy for example, extracts, amplifies, and expands a patient's own white blood cells (W...

Formulating a Design Input Document (DID) can require participation from every department involved on any given project. As mentioned in lecture, while marketing has a strong influence over a product...

The most effective way of addressing scope creep is to determine its origin/source in a way that not only resolves its conflicts, but also prevents them from resurfacing. One main cause of scope cree...

When it comes time for a medical device company to select a supply vendor, many factors must be taken into consideration. Medical devices are not the simplest products as they are expected to carry a...

If a company does not have funding for a project, then it can reach out to other entities for additional support, such as a federal organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Nation...

Selecting a project team can undeniably determine not just the success of a project, but also the potential for new contingent projects that expand on the work that was done. Any online source that ...

The company I work at went through a similar situation in which we were performing two separate projects for two different clients, but only had enough supplies to fulfill one project. The materials ...