Business sponsors are a very valuable resource that companies have. Therefore, the relationship between business and sponsor must be a strong one. The relationship mainly revolves around the first sta...

I am at a point in my life where I am about to graduate and seek job opportunities. So i feel like currently this class gave me the knowledge i need to find a project manager i would enjoy working und...

I agree with the overall consensus of the class that says that at first it is easy to receive praise because you are new and upper level management will be impressed by you. Once you set a standard of...

I would personally decide to stay as an engineer. Being a manager requires a lot of organizational, leadership, and people skills. I am not sure that I would enjoy having to deal with those things. I ...

My personal motivators for why I want to pursue my career is that I want challenging work that makes a difference. I also want stability, both financially and in my career. I believe that what motivat...

I think that the main way that a project manager can motivate their team is by being passionate about the project they are working on. I think that this can be achieved by only managing projects that ...

I agree that all these factors are important for project success. Primarily, everyone in the project should be able to agree on the project goals. This is important because that way there is no discre...

I think that the planning process should be done in a way where vacation and certain absences from employees will not derail the timeline. What I am saying is that there should be some cushion for emp...

Gantt charts are not done for processes like design verification where one task must be completed before moving on to the next. Instead, they are mainly utilized for scheduling parts of the project th...

In this weeks lecture Dr. Simon mentions design review meetings which happen at the end of every design stage in order to be able to move to the next stage. In this class we have also learned that sta...

I think a good way to really tell verification from validation apart is to think as verification as the theory and validation as the practice. Verification of a device begins with the idea of a projec...

The planning phase of a project is very important, it details where the project is headed. Without a proper plan a project will not have adequate direction and may fail. However, the phases of a proje...

I think that a challenge a project manager would face, especially with longer term projects, would be how to keep a professional atmosphere. I bring this up because if you are going to be working with...

Working on my capstone project this year, logging in work has been crucial to our success. The project involves both hardware and software that need to work together in order to function. Therefore, t...

I believe that the most important phase of a project is at the end when it is truly tested whether or not the project is successful. What I mean is that if at the end of the day your project yields a ...