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RE: Why is project planning important?

Contributing to everyone's perspective, an important part that comes from project planning may not be planning every individual task, but it can be id...

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RE: Teamwork in Projects

From personal experience, another major conflict point that can be seen with teamwork is competing personalities. At times there can be certain member...

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RE: What Makes a Good Project Manager?

Prioritization and judgement is an additional quality a project manager must showcase, especially when there are competing demands coming from stakeho...

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RE: Teamwork in Projects

Another component that comes with dealing with teamwork that is challenging is the possibility of there being unclear ownership for certain tasks. Eve...

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RE: Experience vs Education

It is essential to be a well-rounded student as described in the conversation; many students take on more than they can chew, and it can ultimately af...

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RE: Co-Op / Internship Experience

It is essential to have experience in industry, especially if you want to break into top companies; however, the experience matters less compared to h...

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RE: Understanding Project Management as a Non-Project Manager

For non-PMs, the understanding of project management concepts strengthens one's risk ownership, even without formal authorization. In engineering role...

5 months ago
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RE: How to manage and train low performers in common companies?

System-level accountability is essential, and it covers aspects that involve a larger group of individuals who are underperforming along with individu...

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RE: How much time/money should be invested into trying to make a cheaper vendor's product work?

The decision is usually driven by the overall risk and the long-term cost instead of the unit price. Although it may seem reasonable to spend time inv...

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RE: Dealing with Low Performers in Research Teams Without Losing Morale

Agreed, blaming a specific person isn't productive; instead, looking for a direct solution or remediation is most suitable. In many cases, elements su...

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RE: How do most companies tend to solve the problem?

Companies usually rely on the informal leverage systems when legal protection is not effective. Even though there aren't any explicit quality clauses,...

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RE: Covid 19 Vaccines

COVID-19 is a special case where vaccines were able to achieve that "fast, good, cheap," result compared to how it works traditionally. One difference...

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RE: Navigating Compressed Schedules

A way PMs can make an informed decision between utilizing crashing and fast-tracking is by questioning which decision is more reversible if something ...

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RE: Complications with Management Sectors

Similar to Sami, in my time working as an intern at a medical device company, I was onboarded into a team at a later stage of a project, before FDA su...

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RE: Navigating unknown project budgets

One way a PM is able to navigate an unknown budget is by integrating changes that are centered on structured prioritization, phased decision-making an...

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