Whenever I think of the reasons as to why I work a 9 - 5 job, my top motivators are: exciting work at my company and having a supportive manager. I believe just these two motivators go hand-in-hand wi...

@ih37 In response to your question regarding if tunnel vision and scope creep fall under the same category, I would say yes, they do fall under the same category. Both actions ultimately deviate from ...

Like many have said, the project manager’s level of motivation is critical to a team’s productivity. The project manager’s overall motivation can be a contributing factor in the overall success of a p...

One way to tackle a loss of an employee in a project is to delegate that task to other employees who may have performed a similar task in the past, until a replacement is found. Transferring an employ...

Retaining top performers in a company can really make or break a company, specifically a medical device company. I have seen a risk management department fall apart due to the Human Resource departmen...

Over my time of working in the medical device industry and working in the Quality Department, I also feel that communication is imperative to the success of a project. Although it may sound very trivi...

I believe that it is worth shortening the time frame of a project depending on the risk being taken. When it comes to research, I believe the risk is very high, and the full suggested time needed for ...

At work, we had an issue of not knowing what devices were evaluated and which devices were under evaluation of another employee. It was getting to a point where this issue started to escalate and devi...

There could be many reasons a project fails. The major reason why a project fails is due to a project not meeting the customers needs. It can pass the verification, verification, and design of the pro...

As many of my classmates have mentioned, to avoid scope creep is to set a very particular/ specific objective that narrows down the scope of the task. I have also noticed that setting tight schedules ...

I agree and disagree with the statement made. I agree that solicitation and source selection and managing vendor relations are one of the more important parts of a project, as if you don’t have the ma...

Verification and Validation can be lumped together as V&V activities, however there is a key difference between the two stages. Verification is concerned with if the company designed the device ri...

Great question Mark! When it comes to failures in a project, I agree that testing out all parameters can be a waste of time and money for a company. One thing I learned from working in a medical devic...

I believe that returning to activities to an earlier phase is not necessarily a bad thing. @srg36 mentioned, changes can happen due to unforeseeable events and I have seen that in the workplace. Retu...

So far, I feel that the information from this course has really allowed me to understand the behind-the-scenes activities in a medical device company, as well as the rules and regulation of the FDA. P...