Retaining talented employees is extremely useful both to the company you work for you and yourself. For the company they get to the keep an already trained individual who has shown themselves to already be capable at their job. For…   Read more»

I would definitely choose to be an engineer as I do not think I have enough experience yet to succeed in a managerial role. I think my communication skills are at an adequate level but my work experience is lacking…   Read more»

As expected from this class the main lessons are regarding the factual information that goes into being a project manager. This information will help students get accustomed to any team environment more quickly whether as a PM or not. The…   Read more»

Honestly, the most important skills this class develops are the communication and decision making skills. Both skills are helpful no matter what field or position you work in later and the decision. These skills are mainly developed in the simulations…   Read more»

From my personal work experiences almost all of the positions I have held were for fair pay and career growth and development. But this is mostly because I want to become a doctor so none of my current work experiences…   Read more»

The reason that different companies use different project management techniques is due to many factors. The biggest factors are project complexity and project size. The reasons are that more complex projects may need different project management techniques compared to less…   Read more»

When I was working in software development, we were a fairly small group within the company, so each individual member had projects they were working on that would affect other projects. This would very often lead to employees being shifted…   Read more»

I believe that part of being a good project manager is communicating with team members regularly to make sure that their work is on track. Of course, team members can also bring items to your attention if something unexpected occurs…   Read more»

In my Senior capstone project, we had multiple initial design choices that we had to pick from based on our very limited understanding of the project. However, as we kept developing the project, we realized that our scope had changed…   Read more»

The amount of needed information depends on the project. Specifically, it depends on how high the risk of failure is for the project. If the project has no preceding technology, then understandably the risk of failure could be higher due…   Read more»

Once the execution process begins there is no stopping it without delays. If personnel is unavailable to work on their section of the project, then work must continue by way of spreading it out to other personnel. In the case…   Read more»

Increases to the cost of a project can come from many places. The important goal of a project is staying under or at the set budget. The usual suspects for such increases are failing to meet deadlines, unexpected personnel absence,…   Read more»

I have similar experience with logging work. Most of my professional/capstone work was centered around programming and because the projects I was working on were planned to be continued long after I was no longer working on them making sure…   Read more»

For the second simulation my group found it helpful to develop a list of the potential issues, but not develop a new test plan. This is because we need to first make sure we completed the existing test of just…   Read more»

Based on the presented situation I would definitely have the new instrument be verified again. This change in design could result in issues later down the line that could cost much more than just verifying that there is no issue…   Read more»

Having a proper understanding of the project is the best starting point for dealing with failures. From the example of simulation #2 the reason behind the failure seemed to be a preparation procedure that did not match the materials. Why…   Read more»

As you stated in the prompt, I believe that the most issue that sets a project up to fail is poor communication between team members or departments. Just look at the mini-Sim 2. The main solutions to both key questions…   Read more»

During my senior capstone project, we ran into unexpected issues with regards to multiple purchased pieces of electronics. These issues were somewhat planned for by having testing periods of pieces built into the schedule but overall, we ran into many…   Read more»

I have not worked directly with customers before when I was employed but I did receive a fairly large number of unreasonable requests given the product I was working on and my work schedule. I was developing machine learning models…   Read more»

First, the marketing team is needed to make a DID especially if they know what customers want from a product or have done market research. To ensure that a DID is made with functionality in mind I believe that knowledgeable…   Read more»