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Bryan Xavier
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RE: Early Risk Management in a Project

To make the team aware of risk on even smaller, simpler projects, you could incorporate short "Risk Sprints" in regular intervals of the planning cycl...

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RE: Contingency Planning

One way of convincing management to invest in more contingency planning is to remind them that it is a regulatory and compliance risk. If the primary ...

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RE: The Manager’s Role in Sustaining Team Engagement During Trials

For long-running clinical trials, there are many ways to maintain engagement and motivation among team members. One way is to celebrate small mileston...

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RE: Creating Realistic Schedules in Clinical Trials

One obstacle that can complicate timeline planning for large scale clinical trials is the variability added by conducting trials across multiple count...

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

The first step should be to identify why the underperformance is happening, which can lead to visits to monitor process or talking to the team themsel...

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RE: Keeping Clinical Research Teams Motivated During Long Timelines

One strategy that can be used for keeping clinical research teams motivated is to create and celebrate short-term wins. It was mentioned in this week'...

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RE: Cost Estimating – Choosing Between Speed and Accuracy

@ms3548 I think the way to managing the transition from broad to bottom-up estimating is to treat it as a planned-hand off. For example, scheduling a ...

2 months ago
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RE: Scope Management and the Role of the WBS in Project Clarity

In addition to balancing detail and simplicity for the WBS, I think it's also important the WBS structure has clear traceability between work and regu...

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RE: Allergan's BIOCELL Breast Implant Recall: A Case Study in Quality and Risk Management

I agree that regulatory approval shouldn't be the end all be all for safety. There are multiple strategies that companies can and should take before a...

2 months ago
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RE: What’s the Most Effective Form of Communication in Medical Device Projects?

In my experience, I've used weekly in person meetings in order to make actual progress in a project I'm working and discuss with coworkers. Then I use...

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RE: Impact of Testing Variability on Product Risk

To build confidence in testing outcomes, companies often create a standardized test kit that includes the product sample, and instructions for handlin...

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RE: Navigating the Risks of Post-Verification Changes

When facing a late-stage development issue, one method to consider is using the "5 Why's" Method, where you're keeping asking why the failure is happe...

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RE: Importance of Lessons Learned in the Project Closing Phase

As much as learning from mistakes is important for future projects, it should also be important to use the lessons learned in real-time for decision m...

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RE: Role of Monitoring & Controlling in Project Success

You raise an interesting point, others have mentioned already that EV, PV, and AC only show the symptoms of a project failing and do not explain why. ...

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