In this week’s lecture Dr. Simon mentioned that during the executing process of a project, the project manager (PM) is in charge of the source selection. This means the PM must decide on who are the a...

I can see that the scenario you are bringing up is similar to the one in the mini sim 2. Personal differences will always occur, but the as a Project Manager you need to make all your team aware that ...

You have brought up a very interesting point. There will always be obstacles when doing international business/projects. However, the difficulty of overcoming some will be harder than others. For exam...

Hello, I understand the point you are trying to bring up. There is no doubt that the real business does not happen when a customer decides to choose your company to do a project, the real business hap...

Being a project managers is not easy, it is a position that requires a lot of experience, responsibility and good organization skills. My boss is a project manager with a very broad experience in Ele...

As an undergraduate student here, I never talked about the FDA from my freshman to junior years. However now in my senior year I have been able to understand how projects are actually done in the Indu...

Hello, There was one time that my team had placed leads in certain places of torso, legs and ankles in order to track the leads using a tracking program. The purpose of this was to collect data in ord...

You have raised a very good point. I have to say that WBS is probably one of the top 3 most important aspects when doing a project. The projects I did was for a small company and therefore knowing the...

Hello, for my capstone design project, my team was in charge of developing an app for autistic individuals. The app would be created in an android system and it would connect via Bluetooth to a watch ...

I believe budget cut would affect all the phases of the project. When you are initiating it if you require $10,000 in order to develop and assemble the final product but you only have $6,000 for the p...

For my Capstone Design class, my team was in charge of developing a wearable watch for autistic kids. This watch would be connected to an Android app which would be developed by us as well. The purpos...

Hello everyone. Project managers need to be effective in a lot of ways. For example, you need to finish the project on time and the quality of the product need to be outstanding. However, they don’t d...

Hello jp582, I agree with the stages that you mentioned. I think it is key that are done the way they are supposed to be. However I think that these steps can compressed to planning, executing and som...

Hello eac25, you have brought up a very interesting point. I agree that the FDA sometimes takes a long process in order for it to be used in the market. However I also believe that safety is more impo...

Hello, you have raised a very interesting point. I believe that this cycle happens for all kinds of products. However as you mention, for some of them it’s really hard to see their decline. I think th...