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Book review: Critical Chain

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to read Critical Chain. But Critical Chain is different. What is critical chain? Critical chain is a way to streamline processes so that you avoid bottlenecks and increase throughput. Why not ‘critical chain’?”

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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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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical chain : Uses the slack in task time to act as a buffer at the end of a chain of tasks or at the end of a project. This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Useful when you need to recognize the fact that humans are fallible and it’s useful to have some extra time.

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The Best of This Year: Presenting Your 10 Favorite InLoox Blog Posts from 2019!

Inloox

In this article we explain why that is, list the most important elements of a kick-off meeting and give you a checklist for planning one. #2: 2: Quick and Easy: The Difference between Critical Chain and Critical Path Critical chain, critical path - what's the difference between these two project management methods?

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As teams master the basics of execution, they’ll be able to integrate a well-constructed plan with the understanding of variation to monitor the critical chain and manage a time buffer to know the probability of delivering on time throughout the life of the project. Few teams are there yet. That sounds like a powerful formula.

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Project Management Techniques That Deliver Results

Binfire

6- Critical chain technique. As the name suggests, it focuses on the series of important events in a project, which naturally take the longest time (and the bulk of the resources) to complete the “critical chain.”. A lot of companies have been using this critical chain technique. 7- Extreme technique.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Scrum works within an agile project management framework, though there have been attempts to scale Scrum to fit larger organizations.