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 ...

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 ...

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 bu...

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 dev...

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 bel...

I do agree with your point that returning to a project plan is not necessarily a step backwards. But, looking at the given example of staff members being unavailable is very much a backwards step beca...

Despite the fact that we are only in week 6 of the semester I already fell like this class will be extremely beneficial in terms of real-life applications. While up to this point, I have not learned a...

From my very limited experience the best way to estimate a project timeline is really to go backwards from the required/expected completion date. Experience in making timelines and having realistic ex...

The Gantt chart is designed to show the schedule for a project as a whole while also subdividing the pieces of the project. Therefore, some pieces of the projects may be scheduled for the same time du...

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For the last question regarding obligations to other teams, I would hope that there would be a conversation between the project managers of each project the employee is a part of and the employee to d...

In terms of large-scale communication, I feel that emails or smaller scale meetings would be sufficient rather than trying to get a meeting with all members. Recording meetings or having people call i...

In terms of large-scale communication, I feel that emails or smaller scale meetings would be sufficient rather than trying to get a meeting with all members. Recording meetings or having people call i...

Sadly, I do not have any experience working on projects where I had any knowledge of the risk/reward relationship. My main knowledge on the topic though is built from times when risk vs reward calcula...

I have to think that you have misunderstood the product life cycle. From my understanding the product life cycle is for a singular product not a type of product. Sutures are a great example for medica...