A project doesn’t run on sponsorship alone plenty of well-funded projects fail but strong sponsor engagement does make a major difference. A project m...

Before intervening, good managers diagnose why someone is underperforming because the solution depends entirely on the cause. Is it a skills gap where...

Meaningful work and autonomy are perhaps the most powerful engagement drivers, especially for knowledge workers in medical device development. When te...

One of the most effective approaches is structured check-in points where you force yourself to step back regardless of how engaged you are in solving ...

Job satisfaction is clearly important for retention and productivity, but I don't think it's the most important factor in isolation rather, it's the o...

You raise an important issue about work-life balance and motivation that's particularly relevant in high-stakes fields like medical device development...

Quality assurance and quality control are closely related concepts in project management, but they differ in focus and timing. Quality assurance is a ...

You’re right to recognize the tension between cost control and meaningful team development, but it is not strictly a choice between cheap and effectiv...

From a project management standpoint, it may seem efficient to skip cross-team alignment in order to give teams more time to meet deadlines, but in pr...

Resource availability issues are one of the most common causes of negative schedule variance. In the CaPoss simulation, you experienced this when Chri...

As a Project Manager, successful project execution depends on several key factors that work together to keep the project on track and deliver results....

You raise excellent questions about multi-PM structures in large medical device projects. In practice, there are several common approaches to navigati...

You raise a great point about keeping the design team engaged post-launch for those critical first months when production scaling often reveals issues...

Gantt charts are particularly valuable in medical device development because this field involves highly regulated, sequential processes with strict de...

As a project manager, there are several tools and practices I'd use to thoroughly monitor the device throughout development, including regular status ...