Hi, Jim I am not sure that they will need CC for the next phase. It is useful now because it gets them looking forward. Their current system doesn't let them...
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Mike Bowles
mikeorjim2003
Jul 3, 2011 12:50 pm
Larry wrote "We are introducing better tracking of procurement from making and having an early design review of the BOM to weekly reporting of status of the...
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Clarke Ching
clarkeching
Jul 4, 2011 8:52 pm
I've just about finished reading Jelena Fedurko's new book "Behind the Cloud". It's a very hands on book which explains, by example, how to construct and...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 5, 2011 2:49 am
Hi, Jim If you like to consider it something like whatever they mean by that it is OK with me. I consider it Engineering and PM 101 stuff. Alas just being part...
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Steve Holt
s_k_holt
Jul 5, 2011 4:31 am
Larry, I¹m taking a position without knowing nearly as much about the company as you do, but I have to question your assumption that operating to Full Kit has...
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Mike Bowles
mikeorjim2003
Jul 5, 2011 7:15 am
Hi Steve Are you trying to destroy Larry's ego? How could he operate as a (TOC) Project Management (PMI) expert if you take away his belief in his uniqueness? ...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 6, 2011 4:01 am
Hi, Jim Probably not... Larry...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 6, 2011 4:06 am
Hi, Steve I don't have a need for ideas like "full kit" which seem to me to be simply reinventing and renaming things that have been around forever. Most...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 6, 2011 9:42 pm
Hi, Jim While I certainly agree that there is a growing TOC body of knowledge I fear it may give the wrong impression to call it a "BOK" in the context of the...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 8, 2011 2:42 am
... So Cloves is correct that Critical Chain is “straight to project” but my argument has been that this is not useful. In my view Critical Chain is what...
Larry I don't have a lot of time to reply fully to this post today but the notion that DBR and Kanban are pull systems is erroneous - they are "Don't push" ...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 8, 2011 1:56 pm
Hi, Jim I don't follow your comment. It seems to me that from the constraint position in DBR it is a pull system...that is what the rope does. It also seems to...
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Anthony Rizzo
tocguy2000
Jul 8, 2011 2:21 pm
Jim and Larry, The apparent disagreement is being created by the imprecise language. Switch to the precisely defined language of engineering, and everything...
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Pablo
palvarezflores
Jul 8, 2011 3:09 pm
Hi All, Here's some Anderson comments about "Project Management Paradigm" "Scrum like all early (first generation) Agile methods really do not change the...
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Crispin ("Kik&qu...
pineyk
Jul 8, 2011 3:20 pm
Pablo, Surely it's been shown many times that local optimization (e.g. cost of delay for each item individually) generally leads to considerable overall ...
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Pablo
palvarezflores
Jul 8, 2011 3:54 pm
Kik, In fact, Anderson's comments seems to criticize the use of traditional project planning (including CCPM) as a multi-project solution. I don't think he...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 8, 2011 5:05 pm
Hi, Tony Yes, it helps to define terms. You provide a meaningful definition of "Pull" as a feedback system. In that sense CC Pipelining isn't a short-term...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Jul 8, 2011 7:49 pm
I've been lurking on the list for some time reading the interesting discussions. You can say I'm an Agile/Kanban guy but am really interested in the connection...
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Raoul Duke
theraoulduke
Jul 8, 2011 7:52 pm
... i can sorta understand the words, but i don't get any "ah hah!" out of it. apologies for being generally thick in the head. any examples per chance? might...
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Anthony Rizzo
tocguy2000
Jul 8, 2011 9:53 pm
Hello Larry, Where projects are concerned, the time-constant is much longer than that of production systems. However, the feedback loop is still there; it...
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Mike Bowles
mikeorjim2003
Jul 8, 2011 10:42 pm
Larry Tony - thanks for the engineering explanation - I'll have to work on that next week. This is one you should work out for yourself - there is a reference...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 9, 2011 12:39 am
Hi, Tony I only know of one recent attempt to do that directly. The notion was to start a new project when one completed. From my information it failed. I...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 9, 2011 12:43 am
Hi, Jim Uh...I think that is what a pull system is. So I still don't understand why you say, "the notion that DBR and Kanban are pull systems is erroneous ". ...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Jul 9, 2011 7:27 am
Trying again.... The main thing to do here is start to look at Features or smaller end to end work items as the item for which you measure WIP, lead time,...
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Clarke Ching
clarkeching
Jul 9, 2011 11:49 am
Two things: 1. Although I have enormous respect for both David Anderson (i've known him since 2004 and run several events with him) and Don Reinertsen (I...
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Yuval Yeret
yuvalyeret
Jul 9, 2011 12:18 pm
Clarke, I'm very interested in some elaboration where u see the inaccuracies. I agree with you that Davids Kanban and TOC are very aligned. Thanks, Yuval On...
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Adail Retamal
adail_retamal
Jul 9, 2011 1:59 pm
I can't speak for David, but I've also partnered with him in Brazil some years ago and we are both FDD enthusiasts. From what I've heard from him personally he...
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lawrence_leach
Jul 9, 2011 3:09 pm
Hi, Adail and Others One of the reasons I was surprised by David's turnabout is that I have recommended his first book because it promotes Critical Chain as...
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Anthony Rizzo
tocguy2000
Jul 9, 2011 6:15 pm
Hear! Hear! ... Tony +1 908 322 1840 +1 908 930 0411 mobile Where? Where? On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Clarke Ching wrote: Two things: 1. Although I have...
