Due to a personal emergency, I had to turn around half way to Tennessee and therefore was not able to personally deliver my presentation in the PMI Symposium...
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Vincent Alcalde
ajig@...
Nov 8, 2001 2:18 am
... Frank, I hope everything's well with you. I noticed that this paper will also be presented at HK World Project Management week. Congratulations! And...
Greetings, My name is Kevin Relyea, and I am a graduate student at Syracuse University studying Project Management. This is my first time posting to this...
... You might look at the same ideas expressed in different ways by Senge and his group (eg "the Fifth Discipline") and for software at www.agilemodeling.com...
... Senge ... hmmm . . . I know that Senge has a lot of good stuff to say about thinking in terms of whole systems, but can you point us to the specific "same ...
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Michael Carroll
mcarroll@...
Nov 8, 2001 6:35 pm
Larry Leach's book "Critical Chain Project Management" is a must read. Amazon.com Also, go to his web site http://www.srv.net/~lleach/ Michael N. Carroll ... ...
... Actually Senge directly refers to Goldratt, and Larry Leach (below) directly refers to Senge's work in his writing. Larry points out that the essential...
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Jim Bowles
jim_bowles@...
Nov 28, 2001 5:58 pm
Hi There What have you sent me? What is iconference.exe? ... 031 - 250 3700 ... mailto:headoffice@... headoffice@... 031 - 566...
DO NOT OPEN ANY EXECUTABLE FILE WITHOUT VIRUS CHECKING! The following "Trojan" type e-mail replicating virus passed thru my system from another source. Clean...
DO NOT OPEN EXE ATTACHMENTS WITHOUT VIRUS CHECKING, ESPECIALLY FROM KNOWN A SOURCE, REPEAT, ESPECIALLY FROM KNOWN A SOURCE! A virus that snatches bits of your...
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Prashant Nadgir
prashant.nadgir@...
Dec 2, 2001 12:30 am
Thanks for the alert ... From: Santosh Prem <sprem@...> To: <CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:38 AM Subject:...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 11, 2001 5:14 pm
Hello all, As this is my first posting on this group, may be my question is too trivial... We are implementing TOC in our organisation for software project...
Task status reporting in a Buffer Managed, Critical Chain-based environment is very simple and straightforward. Active tasks (those with all predecessors...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 11, 2001 9:05 pm
Hi Frank, Many thanks for the reply.I had another question. While designing the dependency network if I have to enter a buffer in the non-CC path. And if it...
... I'm assuming that by "no space to enter a recommended buffer," you mean that the feeding chain is anchored at its start by a critical chain task and...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 12, 2001 2:03 pm
Hi Frank, I guess I must say "Hi Jonah !!" Many thanks again for providing me with such an insight and thorough explanation. I am in the process of defining...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 17, 2001 1:36 pm
Hello, How to have an incentive plan in place in CCPM methodology ? A possible way I thought of was to link incentives to buffers used. Has any one come up...
Be very careful of any incentives you select, they can easily create the wrong behaviors. Rewarding folks based on buffer consumption could easily cause them...
... Yes, but not tied to CCPM. If you tie too much to one goal/system you raise the risk of overall social failure. The strong goal orientation of CCPM can...
I recently joined a company that has "implemented" CCPM processes across multiple projects. One of the most difficult issues is the apparent lack of a single...
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Eugene Kania
ekania@...
Dec 18, 2001 12:38 am
Hi! Off the top of my head, here are a couple of ideas: 1. Consider using a "floating" drum (I have seen this referred to as the "Tetris" model). For each new...
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Okumus, Kemal
kemal.okumus@...
Dec 18, 2001 4:57 pm
Hello, I am trying to prepare a thesis study on CC Project Management application. Please advise me about related documentation about the Theory and ...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 18, 2001 4:57 pm
Hello, We are implementing CCPM for multi project implementation. Does any body have any experience in scheduling in multi project environment ? Which is the...
Pradeep, Please contact me off-list regarding our experiences in CCPM multi-project implementations. Thank you Brendan Fox Senior Consultant The TOC Center,...
... Brendan -- The purpose of this list is for open discussion of experiences and insight regarding CCPM and multi-projects. Let's let the content of our...
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Pradeep Shekade
pradeep_shekade@...
Dec 19, 2001 6:16 pm
Thanks frank, In the multi project implementation wherein the programmers/architects are working on different software project tasks. A central question that...
... I'm interested in the critical chain aspects here. I expect that it's normal that few people have a multi-project viewpoint, other than capital budgeting....
Thanks for the suggestions, Gene. The floating drum idea might just work, though as you indicate I would have to "game" the software, which is something I can...
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Shekhar Chaudhari
chands_in@...
Dec 20, 2001 12:43 pm
Dear all can anybody guide me for Production Scheduling of Engineer to Order type industry where each order is a project. Shekhar ... Do You Yahoo!? Check out...
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Eugene Kania
ekania@...
Dec 20, 2001 3:55 pm
Hi! Let me add to Frank's comments: There are times that you can challenge all the assumptions in a dependency network (project plan), shorten the interval,...
