@qbs2 The point about planning assumptions is one that I think gets overlooked a lot in practice. When a project plan is built, the sequence of activ...

Actively listening to resistant stakeholders and working towards a collaborative solution is really the foundation of good stakeholder management. Res...

The phase based approach to leadership is something that does not get discussed enough and the points you make are very insightful. Most conversations...

The board of directors should operate at a strategic level, rather than an operational one because it highlights an important structural dynamic withi...

As other members of this discussion have mentioned, one of the most most effective ways of anticipating and combatting delays is to actually embed the...

Treating monitoring as a dynamic and on-going process is one of the best methods for a PM to catch any deviations early, when corrective actions are c...

Jacob, your argument about status review meetings as one of the most important tools for effective product execution brings up really strong points. W...

Dev, I think you made a really good point about connecting each team member's task to a measurable output and to the next stage of development. When p...

Although I do not have direct industry experience, I have found both from my senior capstone experience and the examples shared here are helpful for u...

The distinction you are drawing between surface-level deviations and foundational assumption failures is an extremely important judgement call a PM an...

The point about Design of Experiments is one of the more underutilized tools in this kind of situation. The advantage of a DOE approach over one varia...

The tendency in most PM frameworks is to define stakeholders in fairly transactional terms: the people who fund the project, the people who approve it...

The WBS is arguably the backbone of any project plan, but in medical device development it carries greater weight than a typical engineering project. ...

Slack should definitely account for uncertainty, but that doesn't mean padding every individual task estimate. There's a real difference between quiet...

@dev-doshi You make great points in avoidance, as it is not always the dominant or most appropriate strategy to use in the development of medical devi...