If I wanted to motivate my team members as a project manager I would want to talk to them about what motivates and try to act on that. This is because what each team member needs to be motivated will…   Read more»

From this class, I learned that communication and planning are key to a successful project. The simulations and mini-sims have shown that with proper communication and proper planning the problems that occur can be solved effectively.

For me, I am motivated when the work I am doing is interesting and challenging. To give an example, I have been more successful on my college projects when I got to choose what I wanted to do compared to…   Read more»

For the first question I think that the project manager should coordinate communication between the upper management and the project team. For communication that is between the project team I think each team member is responsible for communicating with the…   Read more»

Quality Assurance and Quality Control are the same in that they both have the output of an action which improves quality but what they look at. Quality Assurance looks at the entire process and makes sure that how you perform…   Read more»

If someone on the project team was no longer able to perform a critical task for the project, it will require a change to the original project schedule. To make sure that the delay is not too large, the options…   Read more»

When a project is planned, it is important to define what risks that you expect to encounter, the probability of them to occur, and the impact they will have on the project.  This is used to create a risk management…   Read more»

Of the monitoring and controlling techniques discussed in the lecture, the most essential of these seems to be the metrics which are used to determine the state of the project. By looking at the schedule and cost variance, a project…   Read more»

I think that the most important part of the Closing Phase is the logging of lessons that were learned. This is especially important for projects that were closed prematurely, as the reasons for their failure can be learned from and…   Read more»

Even though the executing phase requires the most time and money, I still believe that the planning phase is the most important phase because it defines the rest of the project. To give an example, if there was a mistake…   Read more»

Scope creep is a problem because it makes can delay a project by making the scope larger than what was originally in the project plan. To prevent this, there would need to be a system for making changes to the…   Read more»

As a project manager, I would need to consult the gantt chart and use my negotiating skills to keep a project on pace. If a task was delayed or a complication occurred, the impact of the delay needs to be…   Read more»

For a design input document to be useful and efficient, I think that it would need to both meet customer needs and be feasible. Thus, I think that the groups that should have an input on the Design Input Document…   Read more»

On a gantt chart, the order of which tasks are done are based upon the resources required and the prerequisite tasks. Tasks are done in parallel when they are not dependent on each other and they don’t require the same…   Read more»

I think that the longer a project goes, the smaller changes the project team can make to the schedule, budget, and design without consequence. To give an example, it would be difficult to change to make large changes to the…   Read more»

In a project, I think that the most important phase for a project’s success is the selection of members for the project team. This is because the quality of any other phase of the project will depend on the effort…   Read more»

In this course, the things I learned are FDA regulations and how these regulations affect the project management process. I did not know much about the FDA previously and taking this course has given a much better picture into how…   Read more»

In the case that the original planned durations for tasks are not equal to the actual time it took for them to be completed, I think that the most effective tools a project manager has are the Gantt chart and…   Read more»

If I needed to deal with members that are not cooperative or communicative as a project manager I would try to change the Communications Management Plan. The changes I would make would be to increase the frequency of project status…   Read more»

As a project manager, I would think that the most important part of time management is getting a good estimate. The most common approach to getting an accurate estimate of the amount of time to complete a task is to…   Read more»