What are some signs that a project isn’t going well?
Imagine this scenario with me. You have planned your medical device project down to the tee. You have sufficient budget and resources to take it to completion. You have risk mitigation in place, and you think your project is going along swimmingly. And then suddenly…boom! Despite everything you have done to avoid project failure, your medical device doesn’t reach the market. Or if it does, there are significant time and budget issues. You wonder what you could have done differently. Don’t let that happen to you. Here are the top…
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A Step By Step Guide To Finding The Right Medical Device Project Manager For Your Business
Finding the right medical device project manager for your company means looking for someone who: 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. Here are the steps to ensure that happens. Finding The Right Medical Device Project Manager For Your Business Step 1: Start By Creating A Spreadsheet Of Viable Candidates Creating a spreadsheet will help you keep track of all the information you gather about potential medical device project…
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Gather Current Industry Feedback On Potential Medical Device Vendors
When it comes to finding the right medical device vendor for your project, what you don’t know can come to bite you later and cost you heavily. If you have current industry feedback on medical device vendors you want to work with, you can choose the best from the lot without worrying about: To do that, you need a failsafe method that actually works. Enter – the Networking Tree. When you leverage your network of peers and the industry (what Tom fondly likes to call a Networking Tree) the right…
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Why Can’t You Find A Qualified Medical Device Software Project Manager?
Waddell Group has seen increased demand for Software Project Managers for Medical Devices over the past several months. In our searches, these people are hard to find and extremely valuable when it comes to projects. Because they are scarce, there is a significant demand for their time, adversely impacting many medical device projects. Let’s understand why finding a good Medical Device Software Project Manager is difficult and potential solutions to combat it. The Importance Of A Medical Device Software Project Manager Information technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, and…
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How to select the right vendors for your medical device project
The success of your project and your bottom line depend on choosing the right vendors for your medical device project. From lead times to safety risks, your suppliers can impact the overall operations of your business. This makes it critical to choose the right fit vendor for your medical device project. Start by making a list of vendors for your medical device project. Short-list multiple vendors for the same component, product, system, or service if possible. Once short-listed, use the steps mentioned below to select the best fit for your…
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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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So you want to be a consultant
What’s it like having your own business as a medical device project management consultant? We will share our views with you below. There are risks and rewards to having your own business, and Waddell Group will help World Class Medical Device Project Managers make the leap by being your sales and marketing arm . In short, we make it easy for you to be in business for yourself. The “great resignation” and COVID are changing the way we work, and this gives the employees – and contract employees –…
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Project Management Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Remote Teams
Project Management Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Remote Teams Last October, Waddell Group CEO Tom Waddell interviewed Courtney Jones, a skilled project manager with expertise in managing teams from across the globe at Rebiotix, a Ferring Company. Jones’ experiences with project management during the COVID-19 pandemic have equipped her with the tools necessary to get the most out of her teams, and both Jones and Waddell agree that simple changes to you and your team’s processes will pay dividends in the long run. Jones has found success…
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