@vanshamin This is an interesting/insightful perspective. By mentioning that the metric itself shouldn’t become a target, might you mean essentially that the PM should ensure they shouldn’t put on ‘blinders’ over the situation so to say? Because agreed, however, the…   Read more»

Several of the comments on here touched on good points including communication and research. However, the best path may be to source the document directly from an ERP system that has revisions of a doc. If there is a controlled…   Read more»

This is a fun one! I work as a process dev engineer in manufacturing and my company heavily manufactures medical devices. Often there’s no way to really anticipate scrap turnout and issues. What helps is if we’ve manufactured similar devices…   Read more»

I noticed several others have pointed out that changes typically shouldn’t be done all at once; agreed, this is true. Typically changes are made to a machine/tool or process in a controlled way. However, I feel I should point out…   Read more»

@at644, while usually true, having documented procedures does not always guarantee compliance. Procedures can and will help avoid the pitfalls of treating design control and project management as two different entities but ensuring that staff follow the procedures would be…   Read more»

When you mention the product life cycle, that can apply to a variety of things as there are several different components that make up the product life cycle. There is the development phase, introduction phase, growth phase, maturity phase, and…   Read more»

To ensure that the DHF is done properly and completely a PM would need to be cognizant and responsible for all nine steps involved throughout the entirety of the project. While they wouldn’t be responsible for actually generating every individual…   Read more»

Various people agree with the concept that roles should not only be clearly defined, but defined early in a project, or even before the project commences. This is essential to promote a sense of ownership and responsibility amongst team members….   Read more»

Reading through the responses, I agree with many of what was proposed; there are several good options for how to control expectations including consistent communication with shareholders, clearly defining project scope early on, and using a tiered control system. However,…   Read more»

Reading through the responses, I noticed that many suggested having team meetings as a whole as well as additional individual meetings with those involved to try and resolve the conflicts. While this is a solid approach that can work, I…   Read more»

The neat (and maybe painful part) of being a project manager is, that dependent on the industry, you can be expected to be a jack of all trades. In my job for example (working in a medical device manufacturer), the…   Read more»

@njq3 , this is exactly the point I want to touch upon. You mentioned how you sort of came into the leadership role in your current company and grew into it. The original posts asks about what makes a leader,…   Read more»

Reading through the posts, I’ve noticed many have highlighted the importance of listening, defining roles, and respect. All very valid points in ensuring proper communication in a team. To take it one step further though, I’d like to specify a…   Read more»

@an83 Exactly. To add onto this, from the outside, it seems it may be difficult to even grasp a consulting position in the first place as a new graduate with-assuming-little to no experience. Consulting should be chosen if it is…   Read more»

@hc255 agree; I also firmly align with how you pointed out that this doesn’t necessarily have to be a scary thing.  It is indeed important to ask and well understand what’s considered confidential, what are the penalties associated with breach…   Read more»

@rm829 , very true and I wanted to especially highlight one of the points that you brought up. Something important consider is location as it relates to the physicians specialty. Simply considering somewhere tropical or somewhere that’s a popular vacation spot…   Read more»

@ag2357 , to play the devils advocate to you and @kaf43‘s suggestions to increase communication-what if increasing this communication within the organization leads to issues? How would increasing that communication look like? For example, would the CEO ask the operators…   Read more»

@benjaminrofail , I agree. However there’s another important point that should be made here. A good project manager will make their choice based off of what they know and what makes sense. By that I mean that they may have…   Read more»

As having worked in a Functional Organization and a Matrix Organization, I can say that my preference between the two has been the Matrix Organization. Within the Functional Organization, the pro was that all tasks were spear headed by the…   Read more»

My company has used the FMEA document to analyze risks. Although we also do have the the Ishikawa Diagram (Fishbone Diagram) to analyze risk-the general preference for my company are the FMEA docs. I feel the FMEA docs are most…   Read more»