Both a project manager who is adamantly committed to a single solution path and a project manager who consistently says "yes" to new requirements are ...

Maintaining vendor relations is one of the most important aspects of business that any company needs to attend to. Having had personal experience deal...

The sunk cost fallacy is one of the biggest cognitive traps that companies can fall for in situations like this. PMs can have tendencies to justify mo...

Trials should both be planned liberally upfront, and adjusted constantly throughout. Upfront planning should be liberal in the sense that buffers need...

I think the question of whether or not the model of accepted risk can become the new norm for medical devices is worth examining, even with the pletho...

One of the most important reasons why a company would outsource their clinical trials is cost efficiency. Building and maintaining clinical operations...

The reason scope, time and cost feel so central is that they're the most measurable. You can draw a Gantt chart, run a variance report or point to a b...

To Dev's first question, I think it's rarely a matter of intentional deception but rather displayed as a form of optimism bias that gets integrated in...

Sami's point on leveraging change control documentation for budget justification is a great point that I want to delve further into. PMs in the medica...

@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...