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Critical Chain in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

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. Critical chain project management, as developed by Israeli business management guru Eliyahu M.

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Bubble Graph: Critical Chain Fever Chart Re-Imagined

Epicflow Blog

Let’s examine the way Epicflow’s team has made a classical critical chain (CC) tool called “Fever chart” more powerful with Bubble Graph. . A “fever chart” term is closely related to the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) from the Theory of Constraints (TOC). What’s Fever Chart? What’s Bubble Graph? Filtration.

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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I caught up with Mark so that he could explain that interesting title and talk more about the book. Why do you think projects are still late and over budget when professional project management techniques have been around for years? Today I’m interviewing Mark Woeppel, author of Visual Project Management. Few teams are there yet.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. This organization produces a book called the “project management body of knowledge” or PMBOK. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Try ProjectManager for free!

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. Critical Chain by Dr. Eliyahu M. Who said business books have to be a bore? Dr. Eliyahu M. Oberlender.

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How to Improve Demand Planning

LiquidPlanner

We see different results when we include LiquidPlanner’s Critical Chain Project Management as part of their demand planning. The combination of using actual demand while incorporating variability in lead time and dependency planning allows you to plan more confidently and stay within budget. About the Author.

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Why Use What-If Scenario Planning in Project Management

LiquidPlanner

New thinking prompted action, a plan was approved,, budgets authorized, and training developed. But in our world, where we combine Critical Path and Variation, we have two weeks to solve this problem instead of dealing with the issue at the last minute. We didn’t plan for a 50% OTP but 95% OTP, a critical KPI.