Ken Says: "We generally limit the (initial) number of tasks to <100. After all, do we really care about something that is less than 1% of the project?...
... Dann -- I'm tempted to ask you for some clarity around your phrase "affecting the schedule," which sounds like something you want to avoid. Scheduling is...
Dann, I can (and it looks like I should) expand on your question. First of all, my point was not that I don't affect the schedule; I do affect the schedule by...
Doug, I'll scrub the sensitive information from my reports (not quite sure how I'm going to do this yet) and upload files. I'll try to have this done by ...
Ken, Thanks for sharing this. I'll add some of my experience with this, based on my experience with Concerto. Though, I suspect this applies to any CCPM ...
Here is an easy way to scrub sensitive information from your reports: 1) In each project file, copy the column containing the task ID, and paste it over the...
As a Six Sigma fan and a critic of current project "managment", I am looking forward to learning more about CCP and Goldratt. I have been to the AGI website...
... Goldratt's Critical Chain is OK, but not really a textbook. The best book, IMHO, on the basics of CCPM is Larry Leach's book, in which he connects it to...
... I have commentary on all these, and others, in my "Focused Performance Bookshelf," at... <http://www.focusedperformance.com/refs.html> A couple more not on...
I think we are in agreement here. If there has been significant learning that drives new tasks and possible schedule adjustments, I have no problem with that....
Thank-you for your clear explanation. This is what I "assumed" you were doing and you have answered the questions that I inserted in my reply to Frank. I...
Frank Thanks for answering this for me. I have been out of town etc............. Bill I agree with all Franks comments and would add one more to the "missing"...
... Infrequently, we add these new tasks as subtasks to an original task. More often we just add them. We generally put them in with their respective 'phase'...
... I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. I have an administrative assistant who used to handle the status updates, but lately, our project leads prefer...
Andreas uploaded an MS Word file to the criticalchain list files section, laying out a network scenario and asking about the determination of the critical...
Yes, you correctly understood my question and thanks for the reply. I especially appreciated the comments about the risk of team members "buying-out" of the...
Hi All, @Frank: Thanks a lot for the immediate answer regarding early start of a feeding chain. You're right: There's a resource conflict in the initial plan....
I was hoping someone else would jump in on this one, but since not, here's some quick and dirty responses... ... My usual response would be "That's what...
Hi Larry! Your tenacity is profound. Congratulations and continued success. Gene Kania ... From: lawrence_leach To: CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
Hi, Andreas Your questions are good. To appreciate the answer, it is important to change your thinking. Critical chain is a probabilistic concept. None of the...
Larry Leach just said a number of these things too. You are correct. Resource contentions CAN appear during execution, even though they weren't there when the...
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I've posted our monthly report and our bi-weekly (or however often we update) report. Note that we also hang the schedule on the wall for all to see, write...
Ken, Can you provide some context to your projects? How many people in your org are doing projects? 30, 100, 500? (size of resource pool) How many people in...
... 15 - 30, depending on requirements and available contractors. ... The project lead is an engineer (trained by myself) to do project management. I have no...
Thanks, Ken, for your charts. I do like the fever-chart display (thanks, PQA). I did observe that the input-to-date ($, labor) is compared to the EAC rather...
Ken, Thanks so much! Sounds like a fun environment. Gene Kania ... From: Cone, Ken To: 'CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com' Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:23 AM...
Hi, All As I am counting to 10 (or maybe 84,000), I would appreciate your inputs on the following response (context should be evident): Raz, Barnes, and Dvir...
Ah, the energy of academe! Those of us in the operational world would be pleased to get ANY notice, however, flawed. Or to have the time to get worked up over...
