I think a valuable tool, as a previous post mentioned, is categorizing changes based on level of severity or work needed. Minor changes don't require ...

I think that, as in the minisim, facilitating a conversation between both parties is a key first step. In my experience, project managers have a very ...

As many have said, rushing a medical device product means cutting corners, which can have severe ethical and health concerns down the line. There will...

As many people have pointed out in this thread already, rushing the animal experimentation opens up the project to extra risk later down the road. Ani...

Gantt charts are useful tools to help you keep track of what tasks are on schedule, behind schedule, or ahead of schedule as well as providing an esti...

To prevent scope creep, eliminating vague statements when outlining the scope of the project, establishing an agreement with the customer about how ch...

I second what yg385 said. Team members should be aware of the time and energy requirements of a project and plan accordingly. In the case of major lif...

Hello! Nice to meet you all. I'm a senior undergrad in the biomedical engineering BS/MS program (biomaterials concentration) at NJIT./p>

For my capstone project, many of the delays we ran into were communication-based. We needed to order chemicals, but since we had an external sponsor (...

I don't know if there's a good reason to keep the PM out of the loop financially. Everything in a company relates to finances. "Time is money," and wh...

I think what is useful about the FDA regulatory aspects of medical devices is that once your device class and required documents/steps are determined,...

If members of your team are working on multiple projects, it may be useful to speak to the other PMs to get a sense of the project timeline to ensure ...