For the simulation the company involved did do their diligence in finding a second backup vendor, however the second vendor had a major cost increase ...

When a vendor evades responsibility for their product there are multiple approaches that a company can take to fix the problem. Depending on the contr...

Outsourcing clinical trials is likely just the most efficient way to conduct a clinical trial for a majority of companies, as the resources necessary ...

I think another strategy for improving employee engagement would be to assign responsibilities that an individual can solely be responsible for. When ...

There are a lot of challenges unique to clinical trials. This is especially true for multisite clinical trials which not only have to administrate a c...

While having a broader specification range seems better at first it does come with multiple problems. As others have said, having a wider specificatio...

I also think it would be best to go with an entirely different supplier, both for the reasons you mentioned as well as others. Quality issues or a dis...

I would say the three that are the most important are time management, cost management, and risk management. I think these three are all interconnecte...

Essentially, all reasons that were given that could affect the schedule variance are just different types of risks. Others have already brough up risk...

The way work is split between multiple PMs can be difficult to figure out and the best way to do it definitely depends on the specific project. The cl...

I also think that in the context of medical device development projects transformational leadership is the most effective. Transformational leadership...

Ideally teams should rely on both historical data and expertise when estimating tasks but in practice this may be difficult, especially when historica...

While I do agree that while generally SOPs would be the easiest document to change, it is certainly not always the easiest. It heavily depends on the ...

While it may be beneficial to take a risk to shorten the projects time frame, this decision depends heavily on the magnitude of the benefit, and the s...

I have seen a lot of great responses in this thread especially about the challenged PMs face especially about information. One challenge I think PMs w...