I think you bring up a great point. In Medical Device/Healthcare Project management patient safety and data privacy are at stake. Healthcare is indeed heavily regulated due to laws concerning patient ...

As a person without experience, from my understanding the early start date is heavily determined by the dates set in the critical path whereas the late finish date depends on all paths. When multiple ...

As Dr. Simon mentioned, most of the time, the risk management team is often the same people from the project management team with the project manager to lead. In my opinion, the only con to having the...

To find out the procedures, guidelines, and information that already exists within an organization, you would go for the Organizational Process Assets. The role of the Organizational Process Assets is...

These are some great questions! Although the the side effects and financial risks outweighed the profit, I believe the implementation of the vaccine mandate did indeed change the course from the initi...

There are many different circumstances that can cause a team member to underperform. As a project manager, I think it is essential to ensure that regardless of those circumstances, the project comes t...

From my understanding, the project life cycle does not necessarily occur during the product life cycle when the output of the project is the service. In this case, the project life cycle would go thro...

Most commonly, working in a group consists of individuals or smaller teams splitting up the work evenly and bringing the pieces together for a final product. While I do agree with the other responses,...

I personally prefer to work with a boss that is more hands-off. Micro managing can cause the members of the team to refrain from personal expression. With a laid back approach to managing, you encoura...

One of the main similarities between functional and project-based organizations is that both organizational structures involve collaboration amongst multiple departments. Both structures include one m...

In medical device management, I believe the matrix organizational structure is most common. The matrix organizational structure allows all departments to collaborate with each other and provides good ...

I think this is a great point. The FDA presents a mission statement that backs the responsibility of protecting public health by ensuring safety, which I assume the vaccine mandate is an example of. A...

Although @devdesai raises some good points, from an ethical perspective, I have to disagree. Yes, the presence of antifreeze constitutes as ways of preservation but how ethical is it? There are quite ...

Great question! As discussed, the role of the regulatory department includes product development and post-market management which require some background of project management. Project management is c...

In my experience working in medical laboratories, I often take part in executing one of many pieces of a project. Before taking this course, I was only familiar with the role I played within the labor...