I continuously aim to live a life not blurred by my own personal ideas and beliefs, but as humans, we all at some point default to the comfort of our own thoughts. To defeat this, we have to recognize...

As transitioning from academics into industry, this course is incredibly valuable in teaching what to expect. I have a far better understanding of the differences and overlap of the standards followed...

Sponsors are the most valuable source of revenue for a small company. The business sponsor relationship is facilitated through the stakeholder management knowledge area of the project manager. Obtaini...

The most valuable quality to have as a PM is to know your team members. The performance of a team is most dependent on how engaged each member feels in working on the project. A PM must be able to cat...

A team is only as good as a team without its most valuable member. Team members get sick. They take vacation time. Emergencies happen. There will be a time when highly valued members aren't around to ...

As the execution phase transitions into a project's process, the development of a team foments. Keeping records of all team members and establishing effective communication is tremendously important w...

It is important to note that manufacturing plays a critical role in the design control process. As development completes a project with design controls, manufacturing is managing design controls in pa...

Controlled documentation is key to any company in keeping everyone on the same page when part of a project. Through this week's lecture, reporting lessons that a project team learned was discussed as ...

It is important to note that Earned Value (EV) is dependent on the percent completion of the project and not necessarily the specific date that the cost is being evaluated. That is, when looking at Co...

The PM is critical in moving a project along. It is their responsible to ensure that the whole team is on the same page and stay on schedule. As seen in this week's mini simulation, sometimes differen...

As ih37 described, it is critical to clearly establish your customer needs and expectations in your relationship with the vendor. When the packaging provided by the vendor is arriving with defects, th...

Change to a project can have different effects on the overall project. When considering change, it must remain within the project scope. Changes cannot be made if it changes the project to the extent ...

A successful project manager lays out the communication requirements and how information is shared through the team before the start of a project. This means what details of the project must be commun...

The initial project timeline is never set. The planning process of a project breaks down the project into actionable tasks (WBS), allowing team to make rough estimates for each task, but the timeline ...

It is important to understand that the input to a phase process group is the output from the previous phase group process. That is, the inputs that are going into the execution process group requires ...