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Theory of Constraints: A Guide for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

While the theory of constraints is typically used in manufacturing, it can be helpful in controlling most any project. That applies to processes, organizations, individual team members, whatever or whoever is a risk to the successful completion of the project. There are always other risks and mitigating factors at play.

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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

To compile this list, we dug through Amazon listings, forums, blogs, and review websites to identify the best project management books specifically for those in the manufacturing and engineering industries. Critical Chain by Dr. Eliyahu M. Further Reading: 5 Reasons Engineers Need to Learn Project Management Skills]. Oberlender.

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

Taskque

Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. It overcame many shortcomings of waterfall model such as process rigidity and higher risk and delivered a much better solution. Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. Adaptive Project Framework. Rapid Application Development.

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Top 20 Project Management Methodologies & their Scions: Which One You Should Choose & Why?

Taskque

Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. It overcame many shortcomings of waterfall model such as process rigidity and higher risk and delivered a much better solution. Critical Path Method. Critical Chain Project Management. Adaptive Project Framework. Rapid Application Development.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Accept: A response to a project risk where the project manager accepts the risk and takes no action to evade it, i.e. 'accepting' the risk. This is usually in case of risks that are unlikely to occur or minor enough so as to not affect the project's outcome. A project sponsor can request an audit.

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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 we just saw, to recap, I introduced where it is used, the two-pass technique in Critical Path Method approach.