As part of the fourth simulation, we are faced with the problem of ordering smelly (and therefore unusable) pouches from a cheaper vendor or switching to a more expensive vendor whose pouches don't ha...

Enjoying one's work is key to employee retention. While salary/benefits provides a very practical reason to leave or stay, from what I've seen in the workplace, factors such as interpersonal relations...

I think a big component to overworking is peer pressure and desperation for a job. Especially for recent grads entering into the workforce, you already likely had to struggle and fight for a job, espe...

As discussed this week, clinical trials are important for class 2 and 3 devices. They also require significant planning, communication, and overview. The CITI training for clinical researchers warns a...

A project manager's mindset greatly impacts the team. As others said above, a lack of motivation can spread like a virus. In my experience, good project managers I've had have come in early and are of...

I have experience working for a CRO, so I feel I can provide some insight on that point. We have had many clients who are far from small pharmaceutical companies, and I suspect it might honestly look ...

I have experience working for a CRO, so I feel I can provide some insight on that point. We have many clients who are far from small pharmaceutical companies, and I suspect it might honestly look bett...

I chose to go with the two sources rather than the three because it is important to have the backup coating supplier, but I think having a third supplier introduces too much time and cost to the proje...

Unless people are working heavily across teams in a cross-functional discipline, I think each group needs a base understanding of what the others do. As seems to be the consensus on this thread, skipp...

I do see the point about the different coatings from the same supplier being risky, but for the earthquake part, that would depend on the company and which branch locations manufacture which component...

I think a valuable tool, as a previous post mentioned, is categorizing changes based on level of severity or work needed. Minor changes don't require an entire team meeting as an email would likely su...

I think that, as in the minisim, facilitating a conversation between both parties is a key first step. In my experience, project managers have a very holistic view of the project and are more sensitiv...

As many have said, rushing a medical device product means cutting corners, which can have severe ethical and health concerns down the line. There will be an understandable push to rush to be first to ...

In any project, delays and setbacks are to be anticipated. However, your team is expected to meet certain hard deadlines, either for the customer or a regulatory agency, for example. In a scenario whe...

As many people have pointed out in this thread already, rushing the animal experimentation opens up the project to extra risk later down the road. Animal testing takes a significant amount of time. I'...