When planning a clinical trial, you cannot have it all. In the lecture, Dr. Simon states that you have three options when creating a clinical trial: Good, cheap, and fast. The catch is that you can on...

In the project cost management section of the lecture, Dr. Simon talked about two different ways to come up with a budget: analogous estimating (“top-down”) and bottom-up estimating. Analogous estimat...

In the field of research, I feel as though scope creep happens more often than a project stays on track. In the current lab I am working in, projects change rapidly as the results of experiments come ...

I agree with many of the responses in the forum above. Depending on the size and resources available to the company, this could also play a large role in the way the team is able to handle the situati...

When I interned with the Navy, a large portion of my time was spent in classes teaching different teams how to implement Scrum or different agile thinking methods to improve productivity. To prioritiz...

In this week's project simulation, a marketing manager gave a product to another company to try before the product finished all the verification testing. The simulation states that you signed off on t...

I agree with all posts here, that communication would be a very large part of getting the team back on track. In addition, I agree with @ridmehta, in having a sit-down meeting with each team member in...

I agree with a lot about what was said above, as many delays are due to bigger issues outside one individual's control. This would mean that if team members are blamed or blame themselves for problems...

This week we learned about the general topics that need monitoring and controlling. Out of all the groups on the list, which do you think are the hardest to change after a project has started? Has any...

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The two major platforms that I have seen being used on this forum is Slack and Microsoft teams. I have used both with different internships and found that Microsoft teams is great in a work environmen...

I would also do the same as my fellow classmates if I was in a position where the vendor was no longer responding to emails. I would first try and contact someone else from the company to ensure that ...

An important point that was brought up by Dr. Simon in this week’s lecture is the importance of communication for a project manger during the execution phase of the project. During the pandemic, many ...

I agree that if delays occur or the project goes over the allotted expenses that the penalties if any should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If any person mentioned above was negligent or trying...

There are different career paths that can be taken to achieve different jobs. Some people spend time working as engineers before going back to school for an MBA and switching over to the management si...