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6 Top Project Management Books for Engineers and Manufacturers

LiquidPlanner

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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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies

Agilemania

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. So Lean focuses on eliminating waste in the processes. Lean product development was born from Toyota. 40 hour Week.

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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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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

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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The Definitive Guide to Project Management Methodologies

Workamajig

As Mike Wang, our Director of Training and Support, mentioned earlier : “One of the driving factors behind waterfall management is that by investing time in the early stages of a project, managers ensure design needs and other requirements have been met—thus saving the time and effort generally associated with retroactively correcting problems”.

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Webinar Recap: Understanding Dependencies, Leads, and Lags with MS Project

MPUG

Within your history you can print or download your training transcript, and certificates of completion, including the one for today. 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.