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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology.

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The Best of This Year: Presenting Your 10 Favorite InLoox Blog Posts from 2019!

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6: Process Optimization in Project Management (3): Lean Project Management Lean Project Management relies on efficient processes: With the customer benefit always in mind, unnecessary efforts are eliminated. Learn more about this approach and its principles. #5: That's exactly what we're going to examine briefly in this blog post. #1:

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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. How the Theory of Constraints Works with Lean Manufacturing. Both the theory of constraints and lean manufacturing are methods to improve the effectiveness of your project. But the idea has deeper roots.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

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Critical Chain by Dr. Eliyahu M. Epiphanized: A Novel on Unifying Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma by Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson. Management consultants Bob Sproull and Bruce Nelson borrow from Goldratt’s storytelling concept to explore the advantages of using Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma together.

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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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Embracing an Innovative Mindset

Tony Adams

Standard project delivery approaches (Waterfall, Agile, Critical Chain, Prince 2, Lean, Scrum and Extreme Project Management) remain de rigeur, each deconstructing project effort to smaller, more manageable components – without addressing the complexity of environment within which they are applied.

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Top 12 Most Relevant Project Management Books You Need to Read

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The book compares agile to waterfall, breaks down various agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP, FDD, Lean, Crystal, etc.), They are famous for introducing Kanban, continuous improvement, lean, visual control, pull system, quality management, JIT, 4P, 5S, etc. Critical Chain by Eliyahu M.