I fell that keeping steady contact with the manufacturing team during the design process, especially toward the end of the process is very important. The manufacturing team would have much more in dep...

I would start by reaching out to the vendor and ask them to send replacements as the shipment was not up to their usual standards, hopefully it was just a bad batch, and hopefully it is a quick replac...

The mini-sim was luckily set in a way where civilized conversations solved the problems. We were lucky that the people involved trusted each other's opinions and experience. It is not always like this...

My first ideas is to call a meeting with as many of the project team members as possible, as soon as possible. In this meeting we would brain storm possible theories about what has gone wrong, why it ...

A project manager would ideally have as much flexibility as possible while still being able to keep the project on track. It is important to have some give and be able to take surprises and work with ...

Sometimes it is much better to entrust another company that has the experience, machinery, and manpower for a project component with it. It usually costs less to outsource things like this instead of ...

It never hurts to have a checklist. Especially once a few design meetings have passed and you stat to understand exactly what documentation is required of the meetings and the way that managers like t...

For me, it depends on the project and the rest of the team. Sometimes you need someone very familiar with how a specific process works, then you need the specialized skills. Sometimes you have a team ...

With teams with varying skills, where for example each member may have a different specialty, I believe it is a good idea for those specialists to explain their 'tips and tricks' to the group during t...

My older internship used Microsoft teams. My current job uses slack. I like slack more as I find it has more flexibility in how it is used. For school projects, I've learned that the most useful platf...

Slack is important because there are almost always delays that happen during the course of a project. It is necessary to include slack in your project so that your scheduling timelines are not impossi...

One mostly unavoidable reason is unexpected delays or failures. The best way to avoid them is to be prepared and prepare project parts as soon as possible to try to be ahead of schedule. I've run into...

I agree not compiling lessons learned is a significant loss of opportunity. My coworkers and I have started a little 'what did I learn this month' lunch group where we sit and talk about new tricks we...

I do believe that the peeling labels are a bigger issue than they seem. Labels hold a lot of important information about a product. In this case the two more cantankerous points of information to loos...

At my old job, we had a shared cloud service where all the documents were available. For projects where there are many iterations of these documents, we kept them in their own folders, so that you can...