I would like to choose the role of being a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) as they are one of the important people of the team that get most of the work done which involves writing a protocol, having the IRB…   Read more»

According to me in order to build a good relationship with your vendor the key thing is a good level of communication between the two so that they are well informed and up-to-date on the things going on. Have your…   Read more»

As a Project Manager in a medical device industry I would learn to identify what are the different ways to that motivates an individual. Try to reward and provide recognition to motivate the team members on tasks that are tough…   Read more»

For me the study did not surprise much except that making a difference should have had a higher percentage. According to me the work being exciting and challenging, career growth and development, working with great people and meaningful work/ making…   Read more»

The things that motivate me are the urge to bring a new change, the want to move ahead in life, to make progress and bring in new changes that will make a lot of positive difference that would not just…   Read more»

The project manager should be the one communicating the project details within various teams. Communication being an important part of the project, I believe most of the communication within a project team should be carried out via emails and face-to-face….   Read more»

As explained in this week’s lecture for procurement planning before choosing your vendor the team should identify the project needs which comes from having a broad understanding of the entire project and what you need, how much to get and…   Read more»

In my opinion having a common communication management plan for the company is a good choice until and unless some authority is given to make a few changes to the common communication plan depending on the needs of the project…   Read more»

Verification is a process which checks that a device or a product satisfies all the regulations or specification requirements i.e. if the input matches the expected output. As agreed by most above verification can take place at different stages of…   Read more»

I believe that depending on the situation and how negative the values of SV and CV are it would be justified to select any of the situation. However, I would choose the option 2 where the SV is negative and…   Read more»

The planning phase takes place before the execution phase. In this phase the project timeline is set with the help of the gantt chart. Here all the timelines for the tasks are set taking into consideration most of the factors…   Read more»

As mentioned in this week’s lecture that it is important to log all the information in the closing phase . However, it is important to log information through all the phases of the project.This is because at any given time…   Read more»

The planned value (PV) and the actual cost (AC) can be thought of as one the deciding factors for the success of the project. Since having an actual cost exceeding the planned cost can be a sign of poor budget…   Read more»

The schedule variance will be negative, which means the project will be falling behind the schedule, due to a variety of reasons as already mentioned above. One of the major reasons that could affect the schedule variance negatively would be…   Read more»

Logging of working is important and has been helpful in many of my projects as it helps to understand and learn from the mistakes you encounter while working on a project. It helps to keep a track of the work…   Read more»

As said above planning phase is the most important phase of a project as every other phase of a project is dependent upon by this phase. Planning involves a lot factors before putting into practice this involves checking on a…   Read more»

Prior to assigning a not so trivial task the wide range of time between the earliest and latest completion it would be a good decision for the team to have a meeting and discuss about best possible ways to get…   Read more»

A milestone is set taking into account all the possible factors that would come into play while completing the particular task. Missing a milestone would have a bad impact on the project since it would affect other tasks that are…   Read more»

Communication being an important part of the entire project it would be of utmost importance to explain the need for an input from all the members of the project group. This would have been explained in the first meeting. Apart…   Read more»

According to me one of the greatest challenges a Project Manager faces are that of communication as mentioned by most above among the many other challenges that are faced by a project manager. Sometimes a lack of communication within the…   Read more»