Hello all What tool do you suggest one can use for working with people all around the world? Let's say you have a project in USA, delopers in India,...
Hi Santiago, For starters I would recommend to use a bug tracking system that is on the intranet with access available to all team members, such as Bugzilla or...
Actually Microsoft has already bought a collaboration tool back in 2005, called Groove. It's creator is the same mind behind Lotus Notes, a very popular...
Santiago, There are many useful web-based and semi-web-based possibilities for you. After looking around for months, I’ve begun using a combination of ...
Santiago- Interesting question. Not completely related to CCPM... But this is a big interest area for me. It all depends on what you are really trying to do...
Hi Santiago Interesting question but I'm going to answer a differet question: how do you get one team working productively when it is spread across multiple...
"The trouble is ... I don't know the definitive answer...." I do. The problem is structural. Most companies lack a control system, and a project manager is an...
Larry wrote: "In my experience, projects do not get into trouble because they lack detail in the network. They are instead impacted by things that the network...
http://people.howstuffworks.com/murphys-law.htm -- __________________________________ Santiago Velásquez Martínez "The important thing is not to stop...
Hi Jim, Some of you might know Geometric distribution which represents the probability distribution of how many times you have to toss a coin until you get...
This being what sums it all beautifully: "If you make something idiot-proof, the world will create a better idiot." ... -- __________________________________ ...
Richard, do you have the cloud for: "Not once, but many times during the year. Upon investigation, it turned out that there were policy conflicts that caused...
The truck story is no swan, of any colour. It is "just"a special cause uncertainty, not to be covered by CCPM methodology in itself. I am really impressed by...
Is there someone who can say what the official (and possibly unofficial) view is from PMI regarding CCPM? Many years ago I was able to download the PMBOK but...
John, Unfortunately PMI's view on CC is disappointing... :( A search for "critical chain" inside the PMBOK 2004 yields these feeble excerpts: Chapter 6:...
I gave a very elementary presentation on Critical Chain in a local PMP forum and also mentioned about the coverage of PMI on critical chain, when answering...
Could it be that this is compounded by some confused messages from the CCPM community? I went to a presentation on CCPM sponsored by my local PMI chapter and...
Hi Adail, Thanks for providing a few excerpts. A part of the description of critical chain is: "Initially, the schedule network is built using activity logic, ...
Hi, Adail I sent them detail comments for the 3rd edition of the PMBOK Guide. They rejected most of them. My comments may be the only reason they have...
Hi, Kik I too have seen crappy presentations on CCPM. I have also seen worse presentations on conventional PM at PMI conferences, so CCPM gets not distinction...
If CCPM and the PMI are philosophically divided (we proceed from differing fundamental premises), I wonder if we should even be trying to get CCMP included in...
Hi, Prasad One need not calculate the critical path first for CCPM projet plans. Thus, despite my attempts to help them get it right, the second and third...
Hi, Justin PMI and the CCPM community are completely aligned on goals. One might consider the parallels between an organization such as PMI and a religion,...
Larry Thank you for humouring my dumb metaphor! I'm guessing that the PM community is similar to the accounting community in that the academics appreciate the...
Hi Larry, "I answer the EV question with "of course you can use EV with CCPM...for cost control", and show them how, using a cost buffer. I also demonstrate...
Colleagues, I received an off-list communication from Robert Nazareth, a certified PMP and a LinkedIn connection of mine. Since I'm not closely aware of goings...
Hi Brian I liked your thoughtful posting: But I think your final comments suggest a deeper cloud – maybe as follows: D: Use proven methods – (Do not switch...
Brian, When I heard the news yesterday about Boeing's delay I commented with my wife: they use CCPM... Then the reporter said that there was some problems with...
