Even if you are not utilizing project management knowledge to become a PM, the concepts and techniques taught in this course can be applied to other roles and positions. There will be points in other ...

In terms of the amount of time and money the company should sink into salvaging the pouches, I think it is ultimately not worth it to invest too much of either resource into the pouch. The pouch is co...

I think the average American is putting in more than 40 hours a week not because they are more motivated, but because they do not have a choice. The industry currently favors strict deadlines and a lo...

The most important thing a team should do when failing a project is attempting to figure out what went wrong during the course of the project and turn that into lessons learned when proceeding onto fu...

I think asking if job satisfaction is the most important factor in employee retention is a bit odd as the other facets listed here are aspects of job satisfaction. If we consider what the most importa...

I think this is a very prevalent issue that is often overlooked in studies! There was one study in particular that I saw that measured an individuals happiness based on subjective surveys and was cond...

I definitely experienced scope creep during my capstone project as many others have also shared here. An initially simple project turned out to be a logistical nightmare as our troubleshooting and eff...

I think this is a very situational question as others before me have suggested. I think that it very much depends on who is on your teams and what each team member is capable of. I think in general it...

This weeks slides showed us that the medical device field hinges on regulatory and legal requirements. This including patient protections and design controls. In terms of integration management, the s...

Conflict resolution is something I have to facilitate a lot in my current job. In general, I find that the best solution to conflict resolution is taking the role of a mediator who hears the concerns ...

I luckily have never had the experience of someone involved on my project signing off on a product that has yet have verification tests completed, however as others have said this is a very concerning...

I don't know if I personally can comment on what the ratio of positive and negative aspects are in the instance that a project is successful but faces setbacks. I think at the end of the day, every pr...

The power of the board of directors in a project lifecycle is absolute, and they hold the ability to terminate or freeze projects for budgetary or scheduling concerns. As others have mentioned, the bo...

You can reduce the fatigue experienced by your project team by preventing the need for change to occur in the first place. Now, speaking objectively you can only do so much to prevent the need for cha...

I absolutely have encountered this issue during capstone and for my thesis project. In both cases, this involved a machine failure. These issues would have been catastrophic for the project as both a ...