To address the points raised by colleagues, I would like to share a personal work experience as told to me by my friend. She said: "... I was working as part of an IT entity in a major university in t...

I agree with most ideas brought up by my colleagues regarding the qualities a manager should possess. In addition, I would like to add that an excellent manager is someone whose radiating enthusiasm i...

For me, it was very helpful in a way that it taught me about the real life of a biomedical engineer in industry and after school, since most classes focus only on the technical part of being an engine...

That is an interesting question to think about. For me, I would certainly work several years as an engineer, as I learned a lot in my engineering years during undergrad and grad school. I think it wil...

That was an interesting study! However, I was not very surprised with the results. Although most people think that the "Fair Pay" is the main reason that would an employee to keep working, I think it ...

It is very essential in any team to have some sort of enthusiasm regarding the project in order to perform their best and have the highest level of productivity. This can be certainly directed by the ...

After the team development, execution process should work on the planned timeline by team members in which each should perform the assigned tasks on the planned time. However, during any possible empl...

Although there are many important factors that would affect project planning and execution a project manager should focus on, I would emphasize on choosing the right person (team member) for the right...

I do agree with all these points, each would play a critical role in project success as it all depends on each other in a way or another. For me, I would add another two important aspects that would a...

Planned value (PV) and actual costs (AC) does matter in the monitoring and controlling phase as both are essential for the controlling and monitory phase as each would have a direct impact on the proj...

In my opinion, although there are many important monitoring and controlling techniques in the phase of the design control, I believe that for a team to success in the execution stage, it is important ...

Due to the PMI website definition, schedule variance (SV) is the difference between the earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). [SV = EV-PV]. There are several factors that could affect the sche...

It is true that managing duration in a project is one of the hardest tasks for the PM to handle ideally. Even though all task durations were arranged and planned precisely, some out-of-control issues ...

In my opinion, a planning phase is very important, a successful plan has to be built up in a way that allows for dynamic changes. In other words, when the need for revisiting an earlier phase (ie. pla...

In order to avoid such a delay issue, a project manager should initially contact multiple vendors, and get all the information he/she needs for the product. This would give flexibility on time and fle...