Critical Chain

PMI Member Forum Response- Critical Chain

by Josh January 18, 2007 Critical Chain

I responded to a question on the PMI member forums that I wanted to share: Subject: Critical Chain Project Management Does anyone have experience with this PM approach/toolset. I have run across some people proclaiming it as the savior of project management (unfortunately, the biggest proponent I met seemed to think that a Project Plan [...]

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Critical Chain Resource Management

by Josh January 17, 2007 Critical Chain

I corresponded with Vladimir Liberzon after seeing a post he made on the Critical Chain Yahoo Group with a link to a presentation on Resource Limited Project Management. The presentation deals with managing resource constraints from a Critical Chain perspective and is a good resource for people interested in CCPM. Vladimir’s company, Spider Management Technologies (I [...]

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CCEVM Evaporating Cloud Diagram

by Josh January 14, 2007 Critical Chain

A Goldratt technique came in handy to map out where I see the conflict between CCPM and EVM that I referred to in my last post. Please excuse it’s sloppiness, I will try to make a cleaner computer-generated version later on, but I think I may be refining this later on anyway. I’ve never seen [...]

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Critical Chain Earned Value Management (CCEVM)

by Josh January 12, 2007 Critical Chain

I had a discussion tonight with my great friend Chad that got my brain spinning again about Critical Chain and EVM. My notes are not available right now for me to reference, but I wanted to throw out some of the major concepts and challenges I’ve run into thus far. First, the question is why [...]

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Focused Performance

by Josh January 10, 2007 Critical Chain

Frank over at Focused Performance has a great site here on Critical Chain & Project Management. It contains, among other things, an example of the Goldratt “evaporating cloud” diagram for the objective of managing projects successfully. It highlights the conflict between having or not having safety time in task duration estimates within projects. The evaporating [...]

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The Five Diseases of Project Management

by Josh January 7, 2007 Critical Chain

No Limits Leadership, Inc. has this white paper authored by Allan Elder titled “The Five Diseases of Project Management”. Allan was interviewed on Episode 57 of the Project Management Podcast a short time ago. This is an overview of some of the problems addressed by Critical Chain project management. He identifies 5 reasons why projects [...]

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