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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Critical Chain Method: A method for scheduling projects with uncertain deadlines and limited resources. In the Critical Chain Method, project managers rely on placing buffers on project schedule paths to make room for unexpected contingencies. This makes negative variance an important measure of project performance.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

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When we talk about crashing or we talk about the overall let’s say critical chain theory, although that won’t literally say critical chain, but we’re talking about reserves and understanding estimates along those lines that definitely it is addressed here. They did an excellent job.

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