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Andy 86
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RE: Keeping Finances a Secret from the PM

While I think transparency is important, one practical reason finances might not necessarily be fully disclosed to a PM is that the budgets are often ...

6 hours ago
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RE: Risk Management in Project Planning

I believe early stage risk assessments should be prioritized because they help identify major hazards before significant time and resources are invest...

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RE: Ideal PM Processes vs. Real life

In real world projects, I think these line of phase processes act more as a framework rather than a strict sequence of steps, but alternatively they s...

6 hours ago
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RE: Project Slack and Start and Finish Times

A lot of great points raised, especially between padding tasks and building structured buffers. Slack management should also be aligned with regulator...

1 week ago
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RE: how the PM handles budget cut?

Budget cuts indeed cause an impact on cost estimation, but I would say they also expose weaknesses in the original estimating process. In medical devi...

1 week ago
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RE: Balancing time and money expectations in project planning

I agree with the emphasis on the prioritization of safety and regulatory compliance, although I believe there are other important balancing tools for ...

1 week ago
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RE: Team members personal issues with eachother

There are a lot of points I agree with, especially those regarding neutrality, early intervention and structured conversations. A good approach would ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Navigating Design History and Project Delivery

The PM's role does not fully shift from taskmanagement to compliance, but in medical device development, the two could become inseparable. Every task ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: How to navigate errors as a PM

There is an appreciation to what is being said about having an emphasis on humility, documentation and risk management. I agree in regards that emotio...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Dividing the Workload

Understanding hiow the work is divided in a group project is crucial to ensuring both the efficiency and cohesion in the final version of the product....

3 weeks ago
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RE: Verification and PM's

I agree that in the real world, with a regulated environment in medical device development, there has to be a clear separation between roles while sti...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Organization type preference

I personally lean towards the matrix organization, but with an emphasis on a balanced matrix. In biomedical and medical device structures, projects wo...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Sizes of Project Teams

I think overall in any project or mission, it is important to have a balance of the group size and the AMOUNT of groups as well. With that said, I lik...

4 weeks ago
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RE: FDA Responsibilities

I think the most important responsibility of the FDA is risk based protection for public health across the ENTIRE product lifecycle and not just the i...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Product Life Cycle - Impacts & Management

In addition to verification/validation and post market surveillance, configuration and changes of management could help in the influence of a medical ...

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