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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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Since about 2010, Agile was challenged to start providing solutions at the executive level within organizations. ran away with the main prize of getting the ear of C-level executives: PMI had tried for many years to get their ear after all. Critical Path, Resource Critical Path, Critical Chain, Earned Value, Earned Work, etc.)

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

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Today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the Technical category, and the MPUG Activity Code for claiming is on the screen now. You have to find out the critical path, if you are following a critical path measurement method, or if you are following a critical chain method, that time you have to follow another approach.

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Simplifying Schedule Risk Analysis Using Microsoft Project Custom Fields – Transcription

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John Owen: The PMI has a term for the difference between those two dates. I don’t like using the term buffer because then it gets confused with things like the critical chain technique, but this contingency is designed to protect our promise date to the customer. Again, the MPUG PDU code for PMI is mpug071421.

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