This disconnect doesn't really surprise me. It's very easy for someone who didn't spend much time working on a specific project (usually upper managem...

After becoming more familiar with managerial roles over this past semester, I can say that I don't particularly want to become a manager anytime soon....

I think my biggest potential motivator is good coworkers. I've made some real lasting friendships through work that have carried on even after parting...

I think these reasons will definitely vary based on the kind of work people do. I think these numbers are pretty reasonable for a private sector engin...

The first capstone project I was assigned to suffered from scope creep, or rather a lack of scope definition. When the professor was describing the pr...

I could consider my one summer internship an integration of sorts. I was in charge of designing a website with Google Maps API, and eventually we woul...

Although I haven't had any direct experience with procurement myself, I've caught glimpses of the processes in some previous jobs. When I worked in a ...

I think in general IPEC is always the framework for projects. What I've been told is that this cycle is typically disrupted when other people (usually...

I think depending on the severity of the reason for recall, a number of scenarios could occur. For a situation where the risk to the consumer is small...

I've only been part of an "unofficial" design review meeting, but from what some of my classmates have told me it's quite similar to what they experie...

I think the multitude of project document updates is one of the most important but often overlooked aspects of monitoring and controlling. All of thes...

I was working on a project during my undergraduate where I had to develop a rehabilitation glove for stroke patients. We had acquired a budget of $300...

Adding on to this, here are some more quality assurance tools and techniques: Pareto chart: This is a bar graph where length represents frequency (e....

For vacations specifically, it helps a lot for a PM to talk with each team member they're managing and perhaps get a heads up on when exactly they may...

Thinking optimistically, I think the only way a missed milestone could be a positive would be when it reveals an issue. From what I gather, sometimes ...