Industrial Risks
Getting back on time
Project Conflict & Good Communication
Scheduling
Pot Pourri
100

This is the best response to a hazard


What is eliminate it?

100

This is what we call taking 2 project activities in series and rescheduling them to be in parallel.

What is Fast Tracking?

100

The number one reason why project managers get into conflicts in the private sector workplace is this.

What are scheduling conflicts?

100

This man loaned his name to what we might otherwise call the common industrial timeline.

Who is Henry Gantt?

100

Three Emergency Stops

What is the number of Emergency stops in our shop training room?

200

To make a DFMEA, estimate these 3 things on a scale of 1-10 for each of the reasonable risks on your project.

What are likelihood, severity, and detectability?

200

This is how much slack time we want to include on the critical path of our project.

What is no slack time?

200

Confront, Compromise, Smooth, Avoid, Force.

These are the potential strategies for settling conflicts on your project team.

200

This is a point in time indicator that has no budget and no time directly associated to it.

What is a milestone?

200

At the intersection of business, technology, and the humanities.

Where do we find project management skills?

300

Share, Transfer, Avoid, Mitigate, Accept.

What are the strategies available for dealing with risk?

300

Eliminate Tasks

Overlap parallel activities

Shorten the longest tasks

Shorten the easiest tasks.

What are things that can be optimized on the critical path of a project?

300

In the university setting, we really like meetings, but in the private sector workplace, we can at times discourage attendance to meetings because of this.

What is Meetings are expensive?

300

Before calling the schedule complete, we must check that we will have enough of these when we expect to use them.

What are resources? 


(We will accept people, equipment, materials, but really it pertains to all of them)

300

This parametric modelling program may allow you to make 3D printed parts for your studio project at some point this semester.

What is Onshape?

400

When no analysis is applied it is called ignoring a risk, but when analysis has been applied and still the preferred action is to do nothing, it is referred to as this type of risk response.

What is accepting a risk?

400

This activity, which by definition helps us acquire new skills, can be critical in helping us get our project back on track.

What is training?

400

Two processes that facilitate miscommunication among people.

What are encoding and decoding?

400

If we have followed up on all our most critical items on the project, we will next look into how these activities are going.

What are sensitive activities?

400

Temporary, unique, with a defined start, a defined finish, a defined budget, produces a good or service as its product, and is progressively elaborated upon as it progresses.

What is a project?

500

If you bypass the guarding on a piece of equipment in our shops area, this organization will investigate Western if you injure yourself.

Who are the Ministry of Labor.

500

Sending part of our project to an external organization, often overseas, that has unique advantages such as technical ability, or cheap labor rates, is a practice known as this.

What is outsourcing?

500

Does not interupt, asks for clarification, verifies understanding by paraphrasing, pays close attention, and gets rid of distraction.


Who is the good listener?

500

The sworn enemy of the project manager, this is the common name for applying labor longer than it is scheduled for on any given day. 

What is overtime?

500

This building on campus at Western tested the original world trade center twin towers and perhaps more famously the Citicorp Tower in NYC for compliance to wind loads.

What is the Allan Davenport Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel building?