I believe the ideal approach for managing communications is to strike an appropriate balance between meetings and written communication. There are certainly advantages to meetings as long as team memb...

I believe that there is no single phase of a project as important as the planning phase. It is during the planning phase that the project team identifies objectives of the project, develops a project ...

The first example that comes to mind for a project is a group lab project. We had to meet multiple deadlines such as completing background research, preparing an experiment, collecting data, and produ...

The primary distinction between project management and design control relates to scope as project management manages the entire project, whereas design control addresses the specific steps or processe...

I believe the most effective way to capture and share lessons learned is through a common digital resource which every member of the team has access to. Examples include a shared digital project manag...

Strong leadership by the project manager can help the team develop throughout the entire life cycle of the project. Leadership guides the team to the correct decisions regarding the direction of the p...

Slack provides a buffer within an overall plan for projects that can allow you to recover from minor setbacks. Although things rarely go perfectly as planned, having some excess time allows you to avo...

I don't believe employees or project managers should automatically face punitive action when a project exceeds its deadline or budget. Many times delays occur as a result of factors beyond an employee...

One way to reduce risks associated with ES, EF, LS, and LF dates is to begin by focusing on the critical path. The reason for this is because those tasks that are on the critical path have zero slack ...

I believe, as a project manager, if you see that your team members are experiencing some kind of personal issue with each other, your task is to remain composed and focused on the work and avoid takin...

I believe that Schedule Risk is likely the most common form of Risk in most Projects due to timelines often failing to match the original plan. While a Project Team may start off very well, many diffe...

I believe PMs are struggling not only with having too many emails, but also figuring out which ones require immediate action. One way to improve managing an inbox may be creating specific guidelines a...

Even with a lack of total industry experience, based on what I've observed in biomedical engineering projects, verification failures occur generally due to minor design or communication related issues...

I believe a combination of individual and group-based strategies may be the most effective for a collaborative report project based on the type of project and how it is structured. When individual con...

I do believe that much will depend on what the company considers long term versus short term. There are some projects for medical devices that cannot be treated as equal since some produce a higher vo...