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Student Syndrome in Project Management: Real Constraint or Just Human Factor?

Epicflow Blog

It’s commonly believed that the term has been introduced in the novel “Critical Chain” by Eliyahu M. But the students estimated the task and asked the professor to give them extra time to accomplish it. The left line is an assigned date, and the second one is a due date. What Is Student Syndrome?

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7 Questions to Ask Your Team for Better Project Engagement

LiquidPlanner

Ultimately, all project stakeholders will contribute to achieving what is promised so start early with a candid and realistic review of what can be delivered when and for how much. What solutions can we present to the customer as competing priorities or critical chain roadblocks emerge? .

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Project Management Tools and Techniques That Really Work

nTask

They can also show you the estimated work strategy for a specific project during the planning process and even create a Kanban board that effectively monitors all of the work progress your team has made so far. . Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Critical Chain Technique.

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How to Create a Project Schedule (step-by-step guide)

PM Basics

Set durations for each task (copy the estimates provided by the team). Identify a critical path. The scheduling model is the critical path method in our case. But, you may need to use the PERT technique or critical chain method as an alternative. So bear that in mind when you estimate tasks without using the tool.

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A Guide to Project Integration Management

Epicflow Blog

It’s usually based on the analysis of one or several factors: market demand, customer request, organizational need, social need, legal requirement, environmental impacts, or technological advance. . Let’s review some of the opportunities it provides for proper project integration management throughout the whole project lifecycle. .

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Tips and Tricks for Smart Project Planning

Wrike

Thus, the formal critical path for small projects is often obvious enough for project managers and for project management software. Project management tools are helpful in the visualization of the schedule, and in quick calculation of an approximate end date when there are estimates in place. Involve your team in the planning process.

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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). 1997), Critical Chain, 1st ed.,