Hello everyone - More than a year ago, I started out to build a simple spreadsheet system that some of my smaller clients could use together with Project for...
Hello my friends! Seven-and-a-half years ago I started writing my business novel Rolling Rocks Downhill - think "The Goal" but set in software development. ...
I have a spreadsheet that has prioritization of activities for each resource (by month). For example, for a team member named John, the allocations are as...
Hi All, Thanks for allowing me to participating in this group. One of the first things , I wanted to check out is Good Resources about Critical chain . Please...
Hello all, For those interested, Mark Graban will have available, for a limited time, this free SPC webinar. It is 1 hour, I attended and it was nice. ...
Can you take a look at the Wikipedia entry on Contribution Margin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_margin#Examples, then tell me if this sentence...
I need a favour, but I feel a little awkward asking ... so I've explained why below and I'm only asking people who read my blog and who subscribe to this...
Hello all, This is not a strictly TOC related question, so I apologize beforehand: wanted to tap into "the wisdom of crowds" of these lists. Does anybody ...
I've just discovered Amazon have implemented a new feature which means that 5 days every quarter I can make my Kindle eBooks available for free. So ... if...
Dear Members The CriticalChain Group in LinkedIn is nearing a 1000 members which has been built up painstakingly and is actively discussing the tenets of...
hello, as a software developer, i appreciate the idea of not multitasking so i can focus on getting a single problem done at a time. on the other hand, i also...
Let me illustrate a vignette of the prevailing bureaucracy in my team. In my project, I need the blessing of an Architecture Review Board (ARB) in order to...
Just to rile Tony... https://www.cassknowledge.com/research/article/case-multitasking *"We found that the financial performance of companies with highly ...
Hey gang. I just picked up Jim Benson's short book "Why Plans Fail" which talks about cognitive biases (Kahneman and Tversky). It's a fun read and a quick...
Hi All, This is the season for gifts. If anybody is interested in doing Monte Carlo simulation of a project with at most 100 tasks, I can freely offer a simple...
In yesterday's Sunday Times (22 Jan), an article by Margarette Driscoll discussed a new book by Susan Cain, called 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a world...
Hello to all, A friend of mine recommended Rowan Gibson's work on Innovation. Has anybody read his book? Any comments about it? Thanks and take care. ...
I read this post recently on the Joel on Software blog: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html His Trello software looks interesting, to plan...
As the day comes to an end, I thought I would share with you a very special event that occurred on another Christmas day many years ago. I hope I can put it...
Hi, From time to time Standish Committee publishes a report on IT projects called Chaos. Can anybody share the recent numbers published? Regards, Rajeev...
Great link http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/12/13/five-new-management-metrics-you-need-to-know/ bhavin [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hey gang- Santiago Martinez and I are having dinner tonight. What questions should I pepper him with? :-) Jack Vinson [Non-text portions of this message have...
I recently read Bill Dettmer's article about about Cynefin and Continuous improvement approaches, and as usual with his writings, it was very good. The big...
