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Critical Chain in Project Management: A Quick Guide

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Think of it as a critical chain. This is Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). What Is the Critical Chain Method? At it’s core, the critical chain method plans and manages project resources. Think of it like the adage that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

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Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined

Epicflow Blog

Every project manager using traditional tools to run their projects looks for ways to deliver them faster and make this process more efficient. Let’s examine the way Epicflow’s team has made a classical critical chain (CC) tool called “Fever chart” more powerful with Bubble Graph. . What’s Fever Chart? What’s Bubble Graph?

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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical path method Do you really know the critical path of your projects? However, project managers should know about their project’s critical path, especially if there are lots of dependent tasks and the dates are a challenge. Critical path method (CPM) has its roots in the US Navy back in the 1950s.

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Critical Chain Project Management

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Critical Chain Project Management is a schedule network analysis technique that takes into account task dependencies, limited resources availability (people, equipment, physical space), and buffers necessary to successfully complete the project. The origin of Critical Chain. The specific steps in CCPM.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. VPM treats project execution as a process, with principles and practices to create repeatable, scalable results. Few teams are there yet.

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Project Management Framework Types, Key Elements & Best Practices

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A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. A project management framework is a framework that maps out the methods, processes, tasks, resources and tools needed to take the project from beginning to end. But it’s simple to untangle.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.