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A Super-Quick Guide to PERT, Critical Path, and All the Other Ways to Manage a Project

Redbooth

Most project managers are familiar with Agile and the Scrum Board. In this short guide, we’ll look at several established project management systems, including PERT, Critical Path, and Critical Chain, to help you find new ways to make your next project a success. In the late 1990s, Critical Chain was introduced.

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How to pick a project management methodology

Moira Alexander

It’s comprised of static phases (requirements analysis, design, testing, implementation and maintenance), executed in a specific order. It outlines critical and non-critical activities by calculating the “longest” (on the critical path) and “shortest” (float) time to complete tasks to determine which activities are critical and which are not.

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Project Management Tools and Techniques That Really Work

nTask

The Agile approach is basically crushing the big project steps into shorter sprints that help in a detailed analysis of the whole process during development stage. This detailed analysis helps in effective and adaptive planning according to the needs and changes required in the project as it gains a proper shape.

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5 Insane Project Management Techniques in Today’s Market

nTask

You can also squeeze in Scrum methodologies with AUP since they offers a lot of wiggle room for diversified processes. He will do an analysis of pending and already performed tasks. CCM – Critical Chain Methodology: Back in 1997, Eliyahu M. The last quarter analysis of ABC Inc. AUP has 7 categories. sector only.

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RIP Critical Chain?  

Proggio

Critical chain is not dead, but after many years of it being the primary technique for analyzing schedules and prioritizing tasks, there’s a better alternative today. A typical Gantt chart could easily have hundreds of similar dependencies, and the critical chain analysis helped distinguish one from the other.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

Doing an analysis of an organization, you can figure out where to focus to apply limited resource. It was a business architecture lens and a business analysis lens on top of organizations, but on top of project management, program management, portfolio management organizations. – Yeah. – Right. – That’s right.

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Applicability of Agile/Lean/Kanban Methods for fixed scope/budget projects (with short duration)

Sudipta Lahiri

In this case, would it make more sense to go for: a) Pure Critical chain or Microsoft project plan based date based approach b) Combination approach: Critical chain based planning followed by Kanban execution. If using SCRUM, defined planning activity. Small Cycles. Can help in sustainable pace.

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