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 dependencie...

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 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....

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 ...

One topic of this weeks lecture that I found really interesting was the estimation of costs and resources and the possible setbacks/pitfalls that can be associated with this. It made me think of my ti...

While there are various types (and hundreds of thousands) of medical device projects that are ongoing every year in med device companies, something common between them is the tasks in the project mana...

Risk transference is one of the ways of risk mitigation in the medical device industry that highly relates to risk transfer in real life. As Dr. Simon states in the lecture, in real life there is risk...

Project leadership style is one of the most vital parts of a project's outcome in my opinion, I think it is almost undervalued by most companies because they are focused more so on the project success...

While companies that have a broad history of projects could use historical data to provide these estimates, its important for experts in market research and project management to come up with estimate...

Design reviews need to be some of the most organized parts of the project. All documents that need to be signed and approved prior to the meeting should be approved. Everyone that is required to atten...

While most may believe that only people with the title of project manager are leading projects, there are many functions in the medical device industry that need the ability and knowledge to do so. Up...

I was working during the pandemic and had to go in everyday because I was in a lab setting, we were providing certificates that allowed us to commute to work when that was banned as well. Now, I am in...

The different organizations mentioned in the lecture were also interesting to me because I tried to compare them to the teams i have worked on in the industry and feel like my company has had situatio...

Combination products in the industry have additional forms and process steps that come with them as well. These of course vary from company to company how the overall project management process and do...

This part of lecture was very interesting to me because my current background in the medical devices industry is within the wound closure sector where I have worked with various wound closure devices ...