A project doesn’t run on sponsorship alone plenty of well-funded projects fail but strong sponsor engagement does make a major difference. A project manager or supervisor works with sponsors by buildi...

Before intervening, good managers diagnose why someone is underperforming because the solution depends entirely on the cause. Is it a skills gap where the person lacks technical capability? Is it uncl...

Meaningful work and autonomy are perhaps the most powerful engagement drivers, especially for knowledge workers in medical device development. When team members understand how their specific contribut...

One of the most effective approaches is structured check-in points where you force yourself to step back regardless of how engaged you are in solving a specific problem. In the CaPoss simulation, this...

Job satisfaction is clearly important for retention and productivity, but I don't think it's the most important factor in isolation rather, it's the outcome of multiple interacting factors working tog...

You raise an important issue about work-life balance and motivation that's particularly relevant in high-stakes fields like medical device development. From my perspective, the reasons Americans work ...

Quality assurance and quality control are closely related concepts in project management, but they differ in focus and timing. Quality assurance is a proactive, process-oriented approach that aims to ...

You’re right to recognize the tension between cost control and meaningful team development, but it is not strictly a choice between cheap and effective. The most important step is to evaluate what the...

From a project management standpoint, it may seem efficient to skip cross-team alignment in order to give teams more time to meet deadlines, but in practice this often creates more problems than it so...

Resource availability issues are one of the most common causes of negative schedule variance. In the CaPoss simulation, you experienced this when Chris revealed that Manufacturing couldn't make protot...

As a Project Manager, successful project execution depends on several key factors that work together to keep the project on track and deliver results. First and foremost is clear communication, which ...

You raise excellent questions about multi-PM structures in large medical device projects. In practice, there are several common approaches to navigating these dynamics. The most common structure is a ...

You raise a great point about keeping the design team engaged post-launch for those critical first months when production scaling often reveals issues that didn't appear during pilot runs. Beyond that...

Gantt charts are particularly valuable in medical device development because this field involves highly regulated, sequential processes with strict dependencies that must be documented for FDA and ISO...

As a project manager, there are several tools and practices I'd use to thoroughly monitor the device throughout development, including regular status meetings with clear agendas focused on progress ag...