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, ...

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 mentione...

@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 ...

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 th...

@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 shou...

@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 the...

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...

@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. ...

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 '...

@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...

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. On...

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...

@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 el...

@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 t...

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 ...