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Jbarbee
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RE: Procurement Management

In the mini-sim, we learned that having more vendors meant more time, money, and a broader range for the specs. Other things to consider are whether o...

3 years ago
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RE: Project Cost Management : Top-Down vs Bottom-Up

I agree with @anthonynjit . Although the analogous approach is quicker and less costly, its downfalls include being less accurate, considering little ...

3 years ago
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RE: Medical Device Companies

Personally, I've only had the opportunity of working within laboratories so the companies that come to mind for me are: Thermo Fisher Scientific ...

3 years ago
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RE: Design Transfer Project Management

This is a great point! I don't have any experience working in design transfer projects but in my opinion, the specification of project managers for re...

3 years ago
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RE: This Week's Simulation 3

This week's simulation tasked teams to find out what is causing the product to fail cytotoxicity testing at Nelmsa Toxicology. Due to this result, the...

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RE: Negative Schedule Variance

I agree. With a schedule variance, the project may need more hands on deck or modification to the workflow. My first instinct would be to meet with th...

3 years ago
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RE: Making connections between people and schools

Hi everyone! I’m Jada Barbee, a master’s student at NJIT studying biomedical engineering. I currently work at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC as a li...

3 years ago
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RE: Success Rate of Projects

I agree with the comment above. Success can certainly be defined by the completion of all tasks but as stated, success in not equal. The success of a ...

3 years ago
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RE: Personnel evaluation when succeeding project but delaying.

I agree with @nk434 ! Delays may occur due to a plethora of different uncontrollable factors and the project team members are not always to blame. The...

3 years ago
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RE: Companies efforts in the executing step

I think falsifying progress would be extremely difficult. Within the initiation phase of a project, project planning takes place and is a crucial step...

3 years ago
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RE: The power of the board of directors

The board of directors is a constituent of the organizational governance in ensuring accountability, fairness, and transparency to stakeholders. They ...

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RE: What you need to get a job in project management

I think experience in project management would be a great indication to land a position in the field. Without experience, I do not think a degree spec...

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RE: Tendency for project management in medical devices field

In my opinion, there's benefits to both having a project management department within the company and hiring from outside of the company. By creating ...

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RE: In planning, the method to calculate each task duration.

When scheduling tasks, the expected duration of each task is based off of the relationships between the tasks and an estimate of the duration. In the ...

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RE: Project Management and Design Controls Similarities and Differences

Project management processes and design controls are similar in a sense that both are carried out along the duration of planning the project. Project ...

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