I must say that Dr. Simon's courses involve the teamwork project or simulations, which develop the teamwork skills and that what the job required. Also, this course improves the project manager skills...

Design input document (DID) is done at the begging of the project and it is the first document the the project manger would ask to be done. For me, I think that the marketing team should make the mark...

Design Validation is testing method to make sure that the device matches the end user as intended including testing of production equivalent units under real-use conditions, so it just focuses on cust...

The Gantt chart shows project starting date, the project tasks list ,Who is working on these tasks, tasks starting and finishing date, tasks duration, overlap and link with each other, and the project...

For sure estimating the duration of tasks is not easy. For that Dr. Simon said in the lecture the whole should involve on estimating the duration of tasks, so the team leaders check the durations of t...

Planned value is usually estimated on the best available resources while many things can happen that may affect the budget of our project so it need to be monitored carefully. Many projects can fall i...

I agree that risk has negatively impacts even for hearing the word. However, in the project management knowing the risks earlier gives a good impression, so that means the risks can be avoided. For me...

For me, I think dealing with team members taking absences or vacations is not one of the project manager duties because I consider it as departments or teams issue. For example, If a team member were ...

As it is mentioned above, all project phases are important to success a project, and they should be done properly. Despite the project relies on proposal approval in the initiation phase, the design c...

In industry experience, not medical device field, we usually do these meeting in conference room or call the project manger share the problem with a team and we brainstorm a solution every team member...

Project managers play a big role in leading the project or company to success or failure as they usually help to motivate the team and lead the direction of a project. Personality testing is an intere...

In my opinion safety recall of released products is determined by many factors like a defect or test failure leading to major events such as death or morbidity. In case of label peel of in products co...

In the week 3 lecture, Dr. Simon taught us about design change request, which is used when someone find mistake that need to change or has suggestion that need to add, and this is part of monitoring a...

As it has mentioned above, the product life cycle is different from one product to other, not in the life cycle phases but in the life time duration. All agree the product life cycle phases are develo...

Input, verification, validation and transfer stages have design review meeting at the end to ensure that the past stage is done satisfactorily with all approval, so the next stage will start. I think ...