It has to be fear, insecurity, and/or peer pressure. Companies should not expect their employees to work over 40 hours a week if they are salaried employees. If they can earn overtime, that's a differ...

People will leave when they don't feel valued. Being "valued" has many different definitions to different people. Some people determine their value based on their income, amount of recognition, type o...

Something I learned in this class is that a PM is ultimately responsible for everything related to the project. While they may not have to do everything, i.e they can delegate to Subject Matter Expert...

Posted by: @manolo Dr. Simon touched upon Design Review Meetings. He gave a strategy of sending documents to the expected attendees ahead of time in order to get a faster approval. Is there any other...

A big portion of being a PM is following up with people to regarding the status of action items. While this can be done via phone or email, the most effective way to get an answer (and quickly) is to ...

Posted by: @djr32 For my capstone, we had one main project of developing a mobile application. However, within this one project, we had different mini projects which were put together at the end to b...

Posted by: @amin-sadig As many of us know, there is a lot of paperwork involved in most processes within projects whether it is for monitoring or documentation purposes and individual companies have ...

@srg36 is correct. Single source is a little risky, but it is a necessary evil while launching a new product to market. The project team does not have enough time to on board a secondary source in mos...

Personally, the biggest challenge that a PM faces is baby sitting people. People have different priorities, this is the exact reason that a PM is needed. If the project team members understood the pri...

@jp582 All your points are valid. However, I've been in many situations where we are presenting the overall project ghant chart to the customer/management, and almost immediately the first question is...

@ajm73 I definitely agree with you that the project team should just focus on the initial project at hand. Unfortunately, that is hard to do, especially for projects that are driven by the customer. I...

After looking through the FDA's guidance on Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), which is detailed more simply on this FDA page , its clear the FDA is being very tentative about its approval process. ...

Initiating projects is getting buy-in from others by balancing research and taking a strong lead in my experience. In contrast to what others have said in this thread, initiating a project isn't neces...

When I saw the first post in the thread, the device that popped into my head was the LifeAlert device that are typically used by seniors to get immediate medical assistance in the instance of an emerg...

Posted by: @rjs84 According to Daniel Goleman, success can be broken down to be 70% interpersonal skills and 30% technical knowledge. The idea of this balance being in favor of interpersonal skills i...