Logging your work is essential and has several benefits which are necessary for success in the project such as Improving billing of your time, it allows you to compare your rates with those who are charging by the hour to…   Read more»

Briefly, there are 5 critical success factors that are important to help project managers: 1- Facilitate communication between different project stakeholders  2- Monitor and control scope, changes, and risks 3- Identify and prioritize goals and tasks 4- Identify and allocate…   Read more»

Generally, I believe there are five primary causes of cost overruns: 1- Improper risk and uncertainty management (for example we should always be careful in environmental analysis and a risk response strategy), 2- Estimation error (To avoid cost overruns, aim…   Read more»

I think the most valuable benefits of this course were accomplished goals faster (meaning Project management is essentially the practice of turning ideas into reality. Learning how the pros plan, budget, prioritize, and execute projects will help you do the…   Read more»

I think Verify Scope and Control Scope, Control Schedule and Control Cost, Perform Quality Control, Report Performance, Control Risk, Administer Procurement are the basic components of a project control system. To use them: 1.Verify scope generally comes after perform quality control. When your project deliverable is accepted…   Read more»

I think there are five steps to go through at the end of a project that needs to be followed to ensure that phase is carried out effectively, 1- Formally transfer all deliverables, 2- confirm project completion, 3- review all…   Read more»

A project management communication plan is important to a project because it lays out how crucial information will be communicated to stakeholders and team members throughout a given project and so effective communication is critical to project’s success then I…   Read more»

I completely agree with previous comments but I just want to talk about the most important WBS problem and how to fix it. Sometimes teams get caught up in the discussions and end up trying to sequence the work. People…   Read more»

QC can be defined as “part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements.” While QA relates to how a process is performed or how a product is made, QC is more the inspection aspect of quality management but we…   Read more»

I think the most important qualities which you should have as a project manager could be: strong leadership skills meaning having good leadership qualities like being able to motivate his or her team, being a  good and fast decision-maker because…   Read more»

I agree with the previous comments which it is possible to have a couple or several priorities in a project but I believe first of all we need to make sure all of these priorities are considered in the scope…   Read more»

I believe this course was very useful with lots of useful information. I learned a lot in this class, such as getting familiar with every detail of the process of the medical device, also this course will help me in…   Read more»

I think people leave work because of 3 major reasons: 1-feeling burnt out, 2- lack of flexible work options 3- bad boss (recent research shows “ People don’t quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss. Another…   Read more»

First of all, we should consider that every project and its team is unique, for example, some projects can be very straightforward while some other projects can be complicated and risky so we will two different types of managing and…   Read more»

Competition and deadlines motivate me to do the job perfectly and finish it on time. I think for a project manager it is very important to run everything and schedule any program on a deadline and make sure all tasks…   Read more»

Although all team members can help with coming up with new ideas or solving the problems which made a project missing milestone but I believe it’s the project manager’s responsibility to bring back the project on track after missing a…   Read more»

I think this kind of problems must discuss with all team members and find a way to get the project done by the deadline, but we should consider that at the end it’s the project manager who decides about this…   Read more»

I completely agree with previous comments just I want to mention grant charts are for scheduling different sections of a project that can be done parallel and it’s not for sections like design verification which need to completed step by…   Read more»

I think in this situation the project manager for research section will be an individual who plans and produces the project steps and stages and must consider everything correctly to finish the project in matter of time and one tip…   Read more»

I believe there are several phases which are essential for the successful project completion and any mistake in these phases can lead us to the project failure such as project initiation, project planning, project execution, project controlling and monitoring and…   Read more»