Hi everyone, I have a question that I don't think I've seen on this list before, and I don't have direct experience of CCPM, so please fogive what may be a...
For those who have applied critical chain methodology at work, please if you can share your experience about how to convince people to not set dates for...
I showed my management that people usually estimated x units of time for a given task. We cut the time estimate by y, add up all the y's and only add a...
Thanks for the tips, Ken. I like what you've proposed for setting milestone dates. But if you share your milestone dates with your team, wouldn't your team...
Not really. See, we track all buffers, project and milestone, on a 'dashboard' visible to the whole department. So even if we did start to consume a...
"Last, we don't hide anything from the team or our management. Customers who aren't 'enlightened' aren't shown the buffers." Can you provide a little...
That's an interesting question, Dann. Most customers place an order and wait for their system to arrive. Strangely, this is often the attitude taken, even on...
Ken, Yes, your reply was very enlightening. But our situations are very different. I'm part of an IT organization that works with internal "customers". So, in...
Not if you report on the status of the buffers as you go. It is truly amazing how far people will decide to co-operate to avoid a RED report. Doug Brown ... ...
I will be out of the office starting 10/08/2004 and will not return until 10/18/2004. I will be on travel through Friday afternoon. I will be in the office...
Dann, Thank you for your kind remarks. A 'business person' is interested in on-time and within budget. He assumes the quality will be there. So how do we get...
Hello Everyone: I'm the Director of Project Management for a large advertising agency. We typically have 20-30 projects going on in my division at any one...
Michael Felkey
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Oct 12, 2004 2:28 pm
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Look at Tony Rizzo's website and recent blogs. They are a great source for Multi-project management with TOC. Links: www.pdinstitute.com ...
Hi, I´m trying to undestrant CCPM and studying if i can put into practice. Anyone in the list had the opportunity to use a software to manage multiple...
I can´t wait for the response and more question to the group. Is anyone using CCPM ina Multi-projetc portfólio? Wich software do you use? The company is...
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Best Regards, _mike...
Michael Felkey
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Oct 14, 2004 1:06 am
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Right now we are using Excel as the main dashboard beacuse we can do colored squares with it. Eventually we will migrate that part to MS-Project although the...
For Paulo: Be sure you are really at level 0. I get more resistance to CCPM from novice PMs than from people who have quite a bit of experience (with ...
Cross-Posting from CMSIG discussion list, where there has been an interesting discussion on ALAP vs ASAP starts with Critical Chain. ... From: "Tony Rizzo"...
I am a manager and I've asked my staff. Am compiling the answers now, but am not sure they will be very helpful to you. Of course they are very helpful to...
Hi, I am heading a new CAD Software Development project with ambitious targets. The project is a fixed cost project. It has a good amout research content. I...
Here is my first response... -Ken ... From: [edited out] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:10 PM To: Cone, Ken Subject: RE: [Critical Chain] what's it like...
... From: [edited out] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:45 PM To: Cone, Ken Subject: RE: [Critical Chain] what's it like working in a critical chain ...
I'm waiting to release response 1 until the sender can review my edits... Here's his second response. -Ken ... From: [name deleted] Sent: Tuesday, October 12,...
... From: [name deleted] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:08 PM To: Cone, Ken Subject: RE: [CriticalChain] what's it like working in a critical chain ...
For the record and in fairness to ProChain, I like the software and would highly recommend it. We have not had any formal training, although we have already...
First, thanks a lot to Ken for sharing this high valuable real world feedback. I wanted to note what suggests the paragraph that I extracted hereunder. It...
Thank you Ken. Your willingness to show us CC in your environment, warts and all, is very admirable. It is only through this type of open analysis that any...
Michael Felkey
mfelkey@...
Oct 15, 2004 3:05 pm
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(...) "... Also, the theory of constraints relies on continuously re-evaluating the bottleneck." (...) This is relating to number 5 step. The thing is if the...
