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 lik...

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 t...

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 tha...

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 w...

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 ab...

This is a really good question and post to make. When working in the medical device industry, whether that be in the R&D sector, manufacturing, etc. each one of us will run into this question. The...

As many others have mentioned, this would be considered a major change. If a product failed to meet the regulations needed by the country in which the product would be sold in, this is something that ...

@dev-doshi completely agree. I work in a medical device manufacturer. And for us, the name of the game isn't pure avoidance, but risk mitigation. By the time we start planning out the manufacture of a...

Similarly to what others have mentioned, in my job, the go-to is Microsoft Team's messages and Outlook for sending emails and setting up emails. Teams allows for quick communication--messaging and eve...

Absolutely agree with many of the viewpoints here, meet about it, meet about it, meet about it! The team should have a final Lessons Learned meeting at the conclusion of a project, and the biggest iss...

@dev-doshi Very valid input. However, to comment on one of your suggestions, in order to make the 'nooks and crannies' check easier, the team should be aligned and clear on what their roles and expect...

@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 'bl...

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 do...

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...

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. Howev...