From Critical to Cured: How to Communicate Critical Issues to Senior Management for Action
Any project manager worth their salt knows that bringing a medical device project to completion successfully requires quick decisions and timely actions. This includes ensuring that senior management sees and addresses critical issues on time. With their experience, expertise, and reach, they can resolve these issues efficiently. Thus mitigating risks, saving invaluable time, and securing smooth implementation for all. That’s why as tempting as it is to address these issues at the project level, it’s more important to communicate critical issues to senior management effectively. Getting senior management involved early…
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Our New Year Gift To You
Top 10 Resources Every Medical Device Project Manager Needs When it comes to medical device project management, we have a treasure trove of articles on our blog. This month, as a gift to you, we have decided to compile the top 10 into a list of resources to help you run your medical device project smoothly and successfully. Resource #1: Communicating Effectively As A Medical Device Project Manager. A highly successful project leader knows: for maximum impact. Understand why communication is the currency of leadership and how to use it…
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How to look for the right project manager for your medical device project?
A PMI survey suggests that organizations that fail to properly integrate project management into their strategies will see their outright project failure rate increase by a factor of 2/31. This includes the selection of the right project manager for your medical device project. Whether interim, full time or an external consultant, your project manager must know how to optimize your company’s resources to reach project goals on time and within budget. Let us help you look for a project manager with the right skills, temperament, and aptitude to lead your…
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How Project Managers Can Effectively Scope and Plan a New Project.
How do you complete a new project on time and within budget while maintaining company goals and objectives? Simple. Work on the project scope and plan a new project effectively before executing it. Easier said than done, you say. I hear you. In medical device project management, it’s common to have modifications during the project’s lifetime. We just need a way to stay ahead of these possible changes and challenges to execute the project effectively. That’s what we’ll discuss below. The article includes: The steps to scope and plan a…
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Why top industry executives choose Waddell Group for their Medical Device Project Management needs.
Our mission at Waddell Group is to provide exemplary project management consultants to clients in medical device and other regulated industries. This gives companies access to great project leaders on an “as needed” basis, and an opportunity for gifted project leaders to work on projects outside an organization’s politics and other “non-project” related issues. Whether your organization faces a recall, requires a technology transfer, or suffers from low performance — Waddell Group’s experts bring their depth of understanding to quickly assess your needs, engage the team, and provide predictable success. …
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What does a Project manager for Medical Device Companies actually do?
If you’re not aware of what a project manager for medical device companies can do, it can be easy to be trapped into thinking you can manage without them – reducing your financial investment. But that would be a mistake. PMI defines project management as “ the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.” They also say that organizations that undervalue project management report an average of 50% more of their projects failing outright. A good project manager manages and optimizes the…
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8 Types of Medical Device Projects Waddell Group Consultants Work On.
Managing any medical device project can be a challenging undertaking. From setting up your first medical device manufacturing site to complying with quality and regulatory directives to finally bringing your product to the market, the project scope is relatively large – requiring multiple communication channels across multiple functional areas. So it makes sense when – despite the details on our services page – project managers and medical device companies ask us, “What kind of medical device projects do Waddell Group Consultants actually work on?” In a nutshell, Waddell Group provides…
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Right Sizing your Quality System: Three Unique Approaches
In our previous blog post, we highlighted how the right management and development approach to your quality system can achieve competitive speed to market in the current medical device landscape. It can improve your medical device development time to clinical studies enabling you to do more projects simultaneously. And should those projects be successful, improve your profits. In this post, we will continue the conversation by looking at three quality system management approaches taken by medical device companies. And how that will – or won’t! – align with your product…
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Communication is the currency of leadership
Medical device project management often involves cross-functional teams and people with different skill sets, experience levels, and talents. Plus external stakeholders and a peer network to manage. A skilled medical device project leader needs to know how to get the most out of everyone while benefiting the project, team, and the medical device company as a whole. That’s where communication comes into play. For, a large part of project management and leadership is to understand the intent of the project and communicate it with the necessary stakeholders while clarifying: Their…
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Project Management Leadership: Removing team members from a medical device project
A member of your project team is not coming up to scratch. You’ve done everything in your power to help them be the right fit for the medical device project and the team. But you do not see any significant changes. While challenging, sometimes the only choice you can make as a medical device project manager is to remove them from the project team. But before you take that irreversible step of removing team members from your project, you need to be clear on these three things: 1. Determine if removing…
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