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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The PMBOK provides definitions and guidelines for project planning, scheduling, executing and controlling. It’s a great way to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak, and offers a clear definition of how a project is managed. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Lean Methodology.

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Theory of Constraints: A Guide for Project Managers

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He focused his theory on project management with another book, Critical Chain , which came out in 1997. Therefore, a problem that occurs in a project or organization is not by definition a constraint, even if it occurs with equipment, people or policies. How the Theory of Constraints Works with Lean Manufacturing.

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Webinar Recap: Two-Pass Technique with MS Project

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So I have spoken about a number of scheduling approaches, such as you have critical parts method or critical chain method. You have rolling web planning, you have on-demand scheduling or lean scheduling. With this technique, the critical path and the total float or TF for short, these values are determined.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies

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PMBOK helps keep everyone on the same page and provides a clear definition of how a project is managed. Critical chain project management. It also helps reduce inefficiencies, making it a great tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. Lean Product Development. Continuous Integration.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Management Methodologies

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Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Critical Chain PM is one of the newer project management methodologies out there. It was developed as an alternative to the Critical Path method with a focus on resource management. It is less suited for a dynamic area such as creative project management.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

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These associations and thought leaders, authors, and researchers developed several flavors of Agile: Scrum, Scrum XP (eXtreme Programming), ScrumBan, DSDM, DevOps, and Lean-Agile , and market them vigorously. 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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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. Also, it has, with respect to other concepts such as fast-tracking, crashing, you have near-critical path.