Kevin and all, Matias summed up that article and its author rather succintly. It was in the 12/2000 PM Network. A few months later in April , Dave Hulett and I...
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Matías Birrell
mbr@...
Apr 2, 2002 12:07 am
Clare, I'd like to have your comments to Piney's remarks. Forgive my ignorance... IMNSHO? AA? Please, remind me these FLAs (!!) :-) Matías...
Matias, Clare and Wilson, Thank you for responding to my question. I have found the Harvard Business Review article, and I am trying to get the PM Network ...
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Matías Birrell
mbr@...
Apr 3, 2002 1:44 am
Kevin, Your interpretation is perfect. Regarding Earned Value Added (EVA) I know superficially that technique. As I understand it is basically to measure the...
Matias, You can look up TLAs and other jargon in the URL below. You'll find IMNSHO at http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/jargon.html#IMHO pay attention It's a huge...
Greetings, I am back for another round of questions. My question this time revolves around an article I found on ganthead.com. It is titled 'A Critical...
Greetings, My next question is rather simple. What knowledge areas in PMBOK would need to be changed if CCPM was fully adopted. I see complete overhaul in...
Kevin, Moving to a CCPM would require a major change to the entire PMBOK. All areas related to planning, integration, estimating and even some areas of ...
Kevin, In product development some people call platform products iternative in that you begin planning for the next iteration which might be reducing cost,...
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Vincent Alcalde
ajig@...
Apr 4, 2002 5:53 am
Hi, I seldom post, but I found it curious that PMBOK is seen as something incompatible with CCPM (or vice versa). My impression is that PMBOK is simply a...
... Careful, there, Kevin...see the note below. ... I'm not so sure that that isn't simply a clumsy use of the word on the part of the author. I tend to think...
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Jim Bowles
jim_bowles@...
Apr 4, 2002 7:40 pm
Hi Frank I looked at the word iterative and wondered. If it has become so repetitive and the tasks so predictable in terms of durations. Doesn't this now...
... Not really. I think of the real distinction between production and multi-projects as the relative timeframe that a resource is involved in performing their...
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Jim Bowles
jim_bowles@...
Apr 4, 2002 9:47 pm
Hi Frank Thank you for adding the clarity that was missing from the original text. I had been influenced by my experience with refinery turnarounds where they ...
Hi Jim, One could also think of iterative projects as project-based management methodologies applied to production and/or operations work. I believe there is...
Hi Frank, I liked the referenced article in your reply on iterative projects. Thank you for providing to the group. The one comment that I would like to offer...
On 4/5/02 6:19 AM, "Terry Moynihan (Hot Mail)" <terry_moynihan@...> ... It sounds more like a statement than a question, and one I would agree with ...
Colleagues, I am new to the PM techniques discussed here. Could you please provide me some links or docs where I can learn something about it? Thanks, Vadim...
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V G PATHAK
vgp@...
Apr 16, 2002 9:01 am
** High Priority ** I am working in an organization which is Engineer to Order Industry fabricating equipments for fertilizer, petrochemical, refineries...
... As a member of the CriticalChain discussion group, you have access to a number of links at the CriticalChain site. Those links can be found at... ...
... Just because a particular resource is "critical" for a particular project does not mean is it critical in terms of using it as a drum for managing ...
I will be out of the office from 04/13/2002 until 04/19/2002. I will respond to your message when I return. If it's urgent that you reach me, please leave me...
Frank, thank you for suggestions. Information is very interesting and hope will be useful! Do I understand correctly that CCM is like CPM with leveled...
... That is definitely part of the process. Unless those resource dependencies are not considered, you will not have a real picture of what is "critical" in...
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Michael Carroll
mcarroll@...
Apr 19, 2002 2:22 am
There are some tell tell signs of the constraint on you factory floor. 1. Excess WIP, 2. How difficult would it be to elevate that constraint. Another way to...
... I¹m not sure what you mean by ³slack resource time,² but there is an importance between slack world in the Critical Path world and Critical Chain¹s...
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logicalsolutions2002
groups@...
Apr 20, 2002 3:34 am
We need to find a network designer who has experience with the network architecture associated with ATM machines and experience with deployment of such...
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A Roberts
iti03465@...
Apr 20, 2002 8:52 am
As a newcomer to your group (and to CC) I am interested in the definitions of EV terms like BCWP, CPI, SPI etc in critical chain terms. A search of the...