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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system.

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Applicability of Agile/Lean/Kanban Methods for fixed scope/budget projects (with short duration)

Sudipta Lahiri

This session objective was to address challenges faced by Lean-Kanban practitioners in their projects. In this case, would it make more sense to go for: a) Pure Critical chain or Microsoft project plan based date based approach b) Combination approach: Critical chain based planning followed by Kanban execution.

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Beyond Practices: What’s at the Core of Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

And so like back in the day, you know, we had, you know, whether it be rational, unified process or scrum or say for XP or whatever, but before that critical chain project management, we had Lean concepts. You know, Six Sigma was, was all the rage.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

The book compares agile to waterfall, breaks down various agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Lean, Crystal, etc.), It covers group chemistry, work environment, corporate entropy, workspace theory, and more. Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. The book examines the social side of software development.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

ActiveCollab

The book compares agile to waterfall, breaks down various Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Lean, etc.), It covers group chemistry, work environment, corporate entropy, workspace theory, and more. The Goal / Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. The book examines the social side of software development.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. And then you start to measure some of the lean stuff that we’re doing at the time, from some of the con bonds. – Critical chain project management? – Yeah. – Right?

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Webinar Recap: Two-Pass Technique with MS Project

MPUG

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. So it is the format in the ribbon, format tab, under that we have format group, under that I used layout command.