ProjectManager.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Project managers love a good plan. Everything is within control. Every phase of a project is important, but perhaps the most critical to a successful end is the planning and managing of resources. Think of it as a critical chain. In fact, there’s a methodology to control project resources.
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Critical Path invented in the 1950s. Critical Chain Method invented in 1997 . What is the “planning fallacy”? Critical Chain uses common sense considerations that are ignored in most other methods. The planning fallacy happens to the best of us. What is Critical Chain Project Management?
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Proggio
APRIL 17, 2019
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.
Epicflow Blog
JANUARY 29, 2024
Vanhouke’s recent book “The Illusion of Control. Project Data, Computer Algorithms, and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”, shedding light on the phenomenon of data-driven project management and its role in complex multi-project environments. Is there a better more efficient way (Control Efficiency)?
ActiveCollab
JUNE 27, 2017
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. Why we need CCPM?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 17, 2024
Throw in some start-to-finish dependencies , make a Gantt chart , and that’s a pretty good plan. They’ll tell you how the project activities are linked and you enter the data into the planning software. Contingency planning Complex and long projects are often made up of several component parts.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
The main emphasis of the project management body of knowledge is “control”, which typically means more or better planning. There are assumes that with a plan, the outcome will match. Peter Drucker said, “…the word ‘controls’ is not the plural of the word ‘control’”. Let’s talk about the unexpected. Decisively?
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