Slack time is necessary because not everything goes according to plan. For example, for a project, an order of electronic equipment might not arrive in time due to numerous reasons, therefore, the ear...

I have theoretically worked on a device for a presentation in Biomaterials. The device would deliver sunscreen to people suffering from albinism through a monitoring process similar to a blood glucose...

The best way to deal with failures is to learn from the mistakes that occurred. For this week's stimulation, it involved some knowledge of biochemistry and how to best deal with hydrogels in interacti...

As others have said before, project managers should do their best to make sure that shareholders and the project team are both being considered. If the project manager loses the generosity of the shar...

I think penalization should happen, although, it should be based on the situation. No matter how much preparation is put toward any possible scenarios in which things will not happen as planned, a mon...

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Preemptively, the project manager would have considered the pitfalls that may occur and have some grace period for those revisions. The project manager would likely have to revise the verification pro...

I think that flexibility within the limitations given by the project would have to suffice. Understandably, personal issues that may occur to individual members are possible, and project members shoul...

Time would be more important than money in the long run. As the original post stated, the potential to make more money from your product will not be achievable given the setbacks that will be made to ...

This issue would be difficult to handle given the lack of immediate feedback that occurs due to working at home. I would probably set up a schedule for appropriate deadlines for people to complete and...

I would have a meeting with each individual and discuss the reasons why their performances were reported on the low end. Whether it be the workload being challenging to them or personal reasons that w...

I think that missing milestones is not inherently a bad thing. While the loss in the company's funds will not be favored, the potential money that the company will lose can compare to the millions. If...

The essential design control is planning. Anything involving the project comes from the foundation of planning. Without that, the design can't branch out into the necessary steps and adjustments that ...

I believe problem-solving and revision is the best way to resolve the problem. While reading through the verification test, my group noticed that several things were missing that were deemed important...

We were a group of three with a project due imminently. The other group member and I were working on it, although we hadn't heard from the other, regardless of how many times we contacted them. We had...