Resources for Project Management in Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology Sector

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Rajinder Parti Project Manager PhD PMP| Lonza Biologics Inc. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Hi all,
For quite some time, I had been searching ProjectManagement.com for good and new (updated) resources (webinars/blogs etc) related to Pharma/Biotech/Life Sciences Sector. I have not been very successful. Can somebody guide me on that?

If there is none, why don't we build a resource area that is so sorely missed?
Any comments?

Thanks,
Rajinder

Posted: Jan 29, 2016 4:12 PM

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Romiya Barry Marlborough, Ma, United States

Oct 13, 2018 4:48 AM

Replying to Beverley Rabbitts

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Romiya, I find your last comment very interesting. Do you have any ideas why that might be? Surely the secrets of unpublished research, and strategies you don't want to share with competitors, plagues more sectors than just biomedicine - otherwise that was my first knee-jerk reflex thought to why we don't communicate outside our institutions about PM practices. So if not that, what then can be the cause? Are we just more nerdy than everyone else and less prone to networking? I don't think so - I've even danced with other scientists at conference happy hours. Are we embarrassed that we're applying strategic practices instead of following our noses in the research quest like the classic Renaissance scientist might have?...

Hi Beverley,

Unfortunately, I often find it is more the case that processes defined within organizations--such as private sector pharma, biotech, or med device--are kept as internal "proprietary " methods, especially when they are deemed by the company to be major contributors to their product development success. There is limited emphasis, and sometimes restrictions, on publishing by employees of the companies. However, I do find that many project managers are willing to speak at industry conferences about their work as project managers.

Where there is the case of no restrictions, I think there is a belief from some project managers that it is no value to publish. There was a call earlier this year in BMJ's Trials journal openly calling for articles on trial management and research project management because of the dearth of information available.

Another observation I have made in my translational health studies as well as clinical research career is that many colleagues don't consider themselves project managers though they are in fact managing processes. In some cases this is due to a lack of a defined role. In some, it is because they are not fully employing methods according to the PMI standards and the other reason is because they call it something else-- implementation work. For the latter, I find a lot of crossover in project management "science " and implementation science. However, each has its emphasis in different areas.

Overall, it may be less so that scientists are too competitive or too introverted to disseminate their knowledge and more so they don't recognize the value of sharing that knowledge. In limited occasions have I come across biomed PMs that pursue PM knowledge smd practice with intent; so frequent is the "accidental PM".

While I understand the joy of serendipitous research findings and vagabond studies, I strongly hold the belief that scientific pursuits would be much much stronger if strategic practices were applied within the process, as you suggest.

Posted: Oct 13, 2018 7:52 AM

Muthukrishnan Ramakrishnan Automation & Validation Engineer| Automation & Validation Solutions Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan

I am also working in same industry as you. Would be interesting if such contents are published here

Posted: Oct 30, 2018 11:05 AM

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