There are several good points listed in the responses here. To play the devil’s advocate, I’d like to point out potential pitfalls to overly relying on this digitization approach. First and foremost, having patient data easily accessible digital will always…   Read more»

Reading through the replies, there are several very good points and insight offered for how a smaller/less experienced company would handle this kind of situation. One suggestion I didn’t see mentioned but is crucial is this: hiring the right people….   Read more»

@kaf43 agreed! Reading other points and yours, there are several good points brought up which include lessons learned. While going through a lessons learned is important and understanding how and the why the failure occurred; I want to emphasize the…   Read more»

Is many others have stated, often many factors contribute to overall job satisfaction. This weeks lecture struck a chord with me, however, as it highlighted that engagement and motivation are often the top factos or what satisfies someone in their…   Read more»

@knm7 Strongly agree in that it needs to be both. You can’t just have one or the other ultimately. Finding self-motivated people needs to be something closely sought after by HR when hiring. They should tailor their questions to seek…   Read more»

@benjaminrofail completely agree. One problem I’ve seen be especially prevalent is that many times people become managers purely due to having been somewhere a long time/and/or knowing a lot about their department. Their management and people skills have nothing to…   Read more»

There are several good posts here, many of which point out a combos with generally the same 3 knowledge areas, that being scope, risk, quality, or time, or some variation of that.  While I’ll say that I generally agree with…   Read more»

@anthonynjit agreed that the bottom up would be the ideal. However, it unfortunately is often not the case in the real world. In my company, for example, the top-down approach is usually what’s done. My company is able to do…   Read more»

As many are saying, this depends on costs associated with the project, as well as timeline. However, regardless, ‘supplier diversity’ should be done no matter the costs during the project. It’s less ‘suppler diversity’ and moreso, looking for alternative vendors…   Read more»

@mmd55 agreed, I also don’t agree with rushing timelines. You make a good point on things taking longer preventing a patient from receiving that potentially lifesaving medical device, however, I would argue that taking a longer time to ensure things…   Read more»

Going through this post, several people bring up good suggestions! Creating a project plan, setting meetings, and creating a WBS are all good tools to use to ensure that your project stays on task. One tool I didn’t see touched…   Read more»

An important note to consider is what position the manager is hiring for and whether that position is high level or not. Bringing in an outside hire to fill in a role that none at your current company are interested in…   Read more»

@sic23njit-edu agreed! To add to this, I think an important point to consider is to also look at what the company has done historically. Yes, we need to mitigate uncertainty and understand we can’t eliminate it completely, looking back at…   Read more»

@kelsipetrillo this is an interesting suggestion! While on the surface, this may be a way to help broach the topic with the team and address the issue, I see potential issue with rolling this out in the real world. A…   Read more»

The kind of problem that throws things out of schedule dictates the response. Before jumping to discussing the approach, one concept I feel is important to be aware of is the part of the PM’s role in a project. When…   Read more»

As a couple of posters have mentioned, reporting lessons learned is a great tool to use for helping develop individuals so that the next projects run even more smoothly! To add onto this point I’d like to share a fun…   Read more»

Honestly, your best tools will always be communication first and foremost, then accountability, accountability, accountability! As a PM you can only do so much. To a certain level, a team member has to manage themselves. There will always be other…   Read more»

This weeks videos on PM are really interesting. In my job (working as a process dev eng in a medical device manufacturing company) verification vs validation both in very loose terms mean ensuring that the customer spec is met–in other words…   Read more»

This is a fun one! Reading through the comments already posted, one thing I noticed that was missed is this: as the PM, you are often not in charge of hiring new members. You may not even have a say…   Read more»

Many of these comments hit the nail on the head with providing a checklist, previous meetings, and team buy-in as the first steps for ensuring that all approvals will be met and the project will be able to continue forward…   Read more»