Last weekend I wanted to read “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt again. It’s been a few years since I had, and it was one of the first books that really helped me to internalize many of the concepts I take for granted today. I was delighted to find it […]
Category Archives: Critical Chain
Are You The Bottleneck?
Jason was frustrated.
As the developer in charge of the system to integrate third-party data from another contractor (XYZ, Inc.), Jason had requirements and some initial specifications, but as things changed there were questions that came up.
Introducing “Critical Chain Project Management”
…an effective scheduling technique that enables project managers to truly plan a project instead of merely stringing tasks together to an end date. True planning calls fot a great deal of thought that should go into executing a project and steer it towards success. But to do that, we need to first understand project failure.
Theory of Constraints – 4 minute video on What to Change
“Just ask anybody in the organization what to change, and you will find out to what extent people are real experts at bitching and moaning…”
It wasn’t me, it was Goldratt who said it! Wow, I hope I don’t lose my G-rating on this website….
Critical Chain Project Management Overview
A 10 minute video today on Critical Chain Project Management. A good introduction!
Critical Chain Benefits From Traditional PM
Today I was trying to think of ways to integrate some of the methods and benefits of Critical Chain project management into the traditional PM methodology most companies use. I wanted to pick out one element of CC that would potentially yield the most benefit without much, if any, additional overhead to the project manager. […]
PMI Member Forum Response- 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 […]
Critical Chain Resource Management
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 […]
CCEVM Evaporating Cloud Diagram
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 […]
Critical Chain Earned Value Management (CCEVM)
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 […]
