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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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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Project Management Framework Types, Key Elements & Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

It is typically broken into three parts: project lifecycle, project control cycle and tools & templates. We’ve already briefly touched on these three elements: they are project lifecycle, project control cycle and tools and templates. Project Control Cycle. Keep a controlled method of communication.

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Thriving at the Edge of Chaos – a review

Kiron Bondale

Distributed control. I liked his guidance that operating at the edge of chaos is where modern organizations should strive to be as excessive control leads to paralysis and eventual obsolescence whereas a lack of any guardrails will often result in chaos. It does not apply to software development projects that use agile methodology.

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

Taskque

Here are the 20 most popular project management methodologies and their scions: Agile. Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. Agile project management methodology follows an iterative model to bring continuous improvements and ensure consistent product delivery. Critical Path Method.

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

Taskque

Here are the 20 most popular project management methodologies and their scions: Agile. Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. Agile project management methodology follows an iterative model to bring continuous improvements and ensure consistent product delivery. Critical Path Method.

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How to pick a project management methodology

Moira Alexander

Let’s start by taking a look at some of the key PM methodologies: Agile was developed for projects requiring significant flexibility and speed and is comprised of “sprints” – short delivery cycles. Agile may be best-suited for projects requiring less control and real-time communication within self-motivated team settings.