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RE: Avoiding Tunnel Vision

Having tunnel vision can be detrimental in situations in which the root cause of a problem must be found, like in the simulations. With tunnel vision,...

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RE: Why do people work?

Based on the survey, one overarching goal of mine has always been to help others. As cliché as it sounds, I have always wanted to do something meaning...

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RE: Engineer vs. Manager

Like many others, I have always had this idea that I would want to work as an engineer for a few years before transitioning to a more management-based...

3 years ago
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RE: Let's Be Motivated!!!

Project managers play a major role in impacting team motivation. Based on attitude and character, a project manager has the capability to either help ...

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RE: Skills Learned in this Class

Although it is not a skill, one of the best things I learned from this class was the importance of interpersonal skills. After the lecture in which Dr...

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RE: What’s Your Motivator?

My motivator has changed quite a bit over the years. Before college, I would say that my biggest motivator was competition. I enjoyed competing agains...

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RE: Discussion Topic: Scope creep....when your project changes

Like many others, my most prominent experience with scope creep was through my senior capstone project. The project that my team thought of was to cre...

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RE: Communication Management

Communication is vital for the successful completion of a project. To answer the first question, I agree with many others who think that the project m...

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RE: Organizational structure

In a past internship of mine, I was working in a small group of people to rollout training material for a new overarching company software. My team wa...

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RE: Missing Milesons

There will always be occasions in which milestones may be missed, and this could occur for a variety of reasons. Milestones are essentially “checkpoin...

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RE: Team Development

Scheduling a project is a difficult task, especially when coordinating the availability of resources and team members. As discussed in the lectures, p...

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RE: Gantt chart

Gantt charts are extremely useful in portraying a projects schedule, milestones, and dependencies. Based on task dependencies, certain tasks may have ...

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RE: Project failure

There are multiple factors that can cause a project to fail, many of which have been discussed in this topic already. Personally, I believe the two bi...

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RE: Closing Phase

The closing phase is imperative to any project as it ensures all aspects of the project have been completed as desired. As discussed in the lecture, t...

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RE: Importance of Logging Work

Like @sts27, I struggled with logging work well during my undergraduate studies. I never enjoyed doing so, and therefore, the details of any logs I ha...

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