I believe that if a company has the resources (employees, labs, schedule, timing, money) available to conduct the clinical trials in house, they would certainly do so. Outsourcing these clinical trials to third party companies that specialize in performing trials…   Read more»

Within my experience so far in the industry, all of the things you have mentioned (financial compensation, job satisfaction, recognition, and work life balance) play an equal part in motivating employees. However, individuals could have different motives for working in…   Read more»

This is a great discussion because clinical trials are indeed extremely important to the release of many life saving medical devices on the market today and all that will be released in the future as well. As to how many…   Read more»

In my opinion, the best way to strategize to upper management and stakeholders the value of the project is to have a meticulous planning stage where the most important detail of project scope is accurately described. This is done through…   Read more»

This is a very interesting topic because I have seen a situation like this occur during one of the projects that I was a part of in the medical device industry. I believe that larger corporations have a plethora of…   Read more»

Based off the lecture on quality control this week, I don’t think that “its not done well” in smaller projects, I think it’s just not as common in smaller projects. Additionally, the larger and more developed organizations (such as JNJ,…   Read more»

While its difficult to put a number to how many projects are successfully completed in the industry, I remember the lecture mentioning that many projects do not go to completion due to various reasons. Not enough resources, a drastic change…   Read more»

This is an interesting topic because I believe it varies highly from company to company. Each organization has their own respective protocols and approval lists in place to ensure that change controls not only go smoothly but are approved by…   Read more»

From my experience in the workplace, I think the mini simulation was accurate in demonstrating how flexible a successful project manager would need to be. At some point after working on projects, there will be people on the project team…   Read more»

The mini sim this week did a great job representing some of the ways to go about resolving time conflicts within the project timeline. From my experience within the industry and learning from the mini sim, I believe that being…   Read more»

While all the documentation in the DHF and other company based paperwork is transferred at the end of a project’s lifecycle, the members of the project would still be contacted if there are any issues moving forward with the project…   Read more»

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While many have said that the project being over budget is poor planning, the lectures did indicate that there are situations where the budget in the planning stage is not accurate because many differences such as additional clinical research or…   Read more»

This is a great discussion because it shines light on the importance of the planning stage and how important it is for this to be detailed enough so the execution stage can go smoothly. As discussed in the lecture, there…   Read more»

This is an interesting conversation to me because from my experience so far within the industry, I have not worked on a project where there was multiple project managers. There could be multiple people assisting the project manager in decision…   Read more»

As the lecture detailed, Gantt charts greatly help the project timeline stay intact and connect the tasks to one another so the team can understand the order of operations. Determining the dependencies of tasks would require getting the entire team…   Read more»

I believe that a stake holder would be anyone that would be affected by the success or failure of the project, whether is it financial or career wise. For example, a project I am currently working on in the medical…   Read more»

In my five years of experience within the medical device industry, I have worked with various project managers and I would say that the answer to your question in this situation would be both options. In my opinion, it depends…   Read more»

Sponsors and/or stakeholders generally have a high amount of power and impact towards a successful project. They of course can influence a project at the highest level, to the point where the project would need to shift all directions in…   Read more»