The planning phase of a project is one of the most critical stages in my opinion, because proper planning can make or break a project. If we take the ...

I would disagree that the portions you listed are the most important. I think some of them, like the managing of vendor relations, are key components ...

I have found that both this class and Dr. Simon’s other class to be very insightful and useful. The knowledge gained from this class has helped me sev...

Risk is something that is very hard to quantify and accurately describe before the product goes out into the public because it is impossible to prepar...

Scope management is used to ensure that a project does not just keep expanding and expanding until it becomes impossible to take to market because it ...

One of the biggest challenges a project manager will face will be differing personalities within the project team. Being able to manage the members of...

In estimating project time I think having a team that has worked together before and a leader that has a good understanding of how the members of the ...

Similarly to your example about your capstone project, I too have been extensively commenting code that I have written for my Master’s thesis. I am wo...

The Gantt chart is much more reflective of a “perfect” schedule than it is how the project will actually occur. Things overlap because those specific ...

In the lecture this week, Dr. Simon spoke about the scope management plan. This is a good way to attempt to control scope creep by predicting areas wh...

Design validation is an important part of the process of completing a project. Shipping a device without properly testing it can cause a number of iss...

In the initial phases of my Senior Design project during my undergraduate degree, it was determined that Infra-Red LEDs (IREDs) were needed to illumin...

To define one method to cover every experimental failure is quite tough. Each experiment will have its own unique needs and plans for evaluation. But ...

Face to face meetings are definitely the best method for getting the work defined and delegated, but as Dr. Simon said, they can definitely lead to a ...

Obviously this type of catastrophe will have massive ramifications in a world where the majority of manufacturing is conducted in China. A loss of sup...