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 alrea...

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 experie...

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 mo...

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. T...

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 curren...

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 p...

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 ve...

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 attentio...

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 re...

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 th...

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 oth...

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...

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 w...

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 tes...

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 veri...