We are in the very early stages of formally evaluating Critical Chain project management tools. While we have a number of people here who are very qualified to...
Hi, Dann: Your findings will be most interesting for me. I think someone did provide a matrix of these one time. Probably from a tool house and therefore...
Rob said: I thought we had beaten this horse enough, but in poking around some old emails I found one from Frank Patrick from the APICS list (1999) with a...
Let me clarify that my 5-year old posting is not necessarily perfectly matched to my current thinking. Rather than cutting (arbitrarily or not) estimates, I...
OK -- The list so far... - Handling of multi-project environment - Ability to provide useful dashboard displays Anybody care to expand on "handling" in the...
... the second? ... A critical element (sorry, no pun intended) here is to determine HOW you want to apply multi-project CCPM. It is important to understand ...
... I don't understand why you wouldn't want both. I think a meaningful tool evaluation has to be made in the context of the methodology it's being applied...
Hi all. I'm Vu Tuan Anh, a student of French-Vietnamese Center of Management Training. At moment, I'am studying about Multi-project management and How to use...
Hello I'm looking for a CCPM tool that would store its information in a database and support multi-project environment. In the past I've used PS8 and I know...
... As a starting point, I tend to think of multi-project management in the TOC/Critical Chain sense as the processes related to the planning, promising, and...
Dear Frank Patrick Thank you very much for your definition about multi-project management. But I think in Vietnam, multi-project management has some...
I found a good synopsis on http://www.focusedperformance.com/articles/multipm.html Hope this will lead you into further resources. ... ===== Claudia Pak ...
I am looking forward to seeing what multi-project management is in Vietnam. In my mind (I guess I prefer it in simpler English) it is the process of managing...
Hi everybody. Sometimes when I schedule my project under CC there are a space of time that the project can delay and not impact into the buffer consumption. ...
I'm accustomed to seeing occasional gaps _in_ the critical chain, caused by the insertion of feeding buffers that end up with a non-critical chain plus feeding...
Yes Frank, it seems something like you say about the feeding buffer inssertion. I checked more carefully the project network and I realized that there are two...
Carlos: When there are two or more chains in parallel, both chains must be completed before the next step (or the end of the project) can occur. For the sake...
Hi, Does anyone know of any references or work published in the field of project scheduling (or management) and Deming's "Loss Function" concept? Has anyone...
Dear Group Members, My name is Richie and I am pursuing my last few months as a MBA student. As part of the curriculum we have to submit a thesis. I have based...
Richie, Get a copy of Management Dilemmas by Eli Schragenheim. He has a very nice example for hotels in there. MArk ... From: CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com ...
David, The person most associated with Loss Functions is Dr. Genichi Taguchi, but because of their linkage to statistical process control I'm not surprised to...
Steve, Thanks for the links. You are correct about where I'm going with this. Take the "agile" versus "traditional" software development argument. Traditional ...
Mr. Mark, Thank you for the book. I shall refer to it as soon as possible Richie. ... From: mark woeppel To: CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August...
I am in urgent need of sources that back-up two important assumptions that we take for granted in CCPM. The first assumptions is that the cause of many delays...
I read that Critical Chain is described in PMBOK Guide 2004 edition. Is the draft of that part available somewhere? Edgard Calia [Non-text portions of this...
Niels. Many of the TOC applications were created based on "common sense" validation rather than extensive controlled experiments. Eli often said that having ...
"David Anderson" <netherby_uk@...> wrote: Does anyone know of any references or work published in the field of project scheduling (or management) and...
"niels schieman" <niels@...> wrote: The first assumptions is that the cause of many delays originate in the very planning of those activities. Since...
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