Posted by: @manolo In week one, Dr. Simon went over different aspects of working in Academia vs Industry. He asked us to make an argument for working in either option. As we start going into each role of Medical Device…   Read more»

Posted by: @orleron As I said in the lecture for this module, this course is different. Whereas most courses seek to fill you with academic information in order to create a knowledge base for yourself, this course seeks to lay…   Read more»

Posted by: @ka-kyung-kim I have one scenario I wonder about what happens in this caseIn human resource management, a team has been settled and worked on a project and in the middle of the process. The project should keep moving…   Read more»

Posted by: @aasutosh-purohit In the lecture we studied about Quality Assurance and Quality control. How these both are different from each other? There are many differences between quality control and quality assurance. QC focuses on fulfilling quality requirements and to…   Read more»

In my opinion, every process involved in project management, from the initiation phase to the closing phase is just as equally important as the other. During initiation, you are trying to turn an idea into a goal. One simple idea…   Read more»

Although every technique in the monitoring and controlling phase is important, I believe that the approval or rejection change makes or breaks the project. Suppose a PM approves of a medical device that still has potential hazards that were possibly…   Read more»

Posted by: @rgp29 In this week’s lecture Dr. Simon mentioned that during the executing process of a project, the project manager (PM) is in charge of the source selection. This means the PM must decide on who are the appropriate…   Read more»

Posted by: @amin-sadig We learned a lot about scheduling and task delegation this week and one major question arose. If the PM changes at different phases of a project (beginning, mid, near conclusion), and the an error in the scope…   Read more»

Posted by: @ap962 This weeks lecture talks about project planning and execution. As a Project Manager, what are the key factors that need to be taken into consideration for a successful project execution?Also, what factors you would as a Manager…   Read more»

Posted by: @talha-chaudhry One of the interesting things that Dr. Simon mentioned in this weeks lecture was the concept of team development. When you are a project manager, your project team is not composed of robotic entities. They are human…   Read more»

Posted by: @devarshi-joshi If we talk about planning phase in a project of medical devices, according to me one of the important aspect is to find out user needs. Sometimes user needs are bit vague and ambigious but that is…   Read more»

Posted by: @aasutosh-purohit we know that in Project scheduling or task scheduling, the following are the steps needed:Defining Activities, doing proper Estimates, determining Dependencies and assigning Resources. According to you guys, are there any other factors that need to be…   Read more»

There are quite a few methods that a project manager can develop in order to assist employees to  complete tasks in timely manner. Depending on the project, doing research on previous related projects is one thing that can be used…   Read more»

Posted by: @ryanrattazzi In the lecture slides this week, we learned about all things risk management. Starting in the planning phase, a part of DDP is to do risk analysis to determine the probability some undesired consequence will occur in…   Read more»

Believe it or not, there are many differences between a project manager and a clinical project manager. Project managers take on several roles such as planning what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it, looking…   Read more»

Being organized is key to completing any task successfully. As a lab technician, keeping up to 300 chemicals in alphabetical order helps to work at a faster pace. When making batches of media such as broths and agar, instead of…   Read more»