Since the beginning of the new year, when adding new members and subtracting "unsubscribers," we've had a net of about 20 new members in this discussion group...
To facilitate the flow of conversations, especially with my recent invitation to the newer member, I'm turning "new member moderation" off for the time being....
To All...Let me introduce myself. My name is Sam Billingsley and I live in Atlanta, GA. Been involved in all levels of commercial software development since...
Critical chain is new to me. Any body may let me know where on the net I may found any useful information on learning about Critical Chain? Thanks! Jeff GU ......
Frank, Thanks, it helps a lot! Jeff ·¢¼þÈË: Frank Patrick [mailto:fpatrick@...] ·¢ËÍʱ¼ä: 2003Äê2ÔÂ9ÈÕ 11:57 ...
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Wehr, Michael J.
Wehr.Michael@...
Feb 10, 2003 1:06 pm
I started studying TOC during my Master's Degree 5 years ago. Although I've used management practices that parallel what I read about TOC, I've never...
Good question Andy. I have only run across two companies that even reference CC/TOC in their product literature. I don't have any idea how they do it or how...
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Wehr, Michael J.
Wehr.Michael@...
Feb 10, 2003 4:03 pm
here is a site that shows some evaluation of those and more - <http://www.rogo.com/cac/software.html> They all implement TOC capabilities in their software: ...
It appears that the web page list is a bit out of date regarding some company names and offerings. Sciforma, makers of PS8, used to be Scitor. Another software...
The CC is a very foreign concept in most companies that perform IT development projects. Most of us in the past manually factored in resource skills in...
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Bruce Lynch
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Feb 10, 2003 5:21 pm
As many of you know, Cutter Consortium has recently produced a special issue of the Cutter IT Journal on Critical Chain. It will go to print at the end of this...
Kate, Any progress on your simulation efforts? I would be interested in knowing if you are manually creating the CC version network on just an intitutive...
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Michael Carroll
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Feb 11, 2003 2:40 am
There was a good deal of chatter on the subject of using a standard project management software such as Microsoft Project to do a variation of CCPM called...
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Michael Carroll
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Feb 11, 2003 3:25 am
Critical Chain Project Management is a new approach to managing projects where Critical Path has been around since the Polaris Missile Program. CCPM...
Michael, I recently read Robert Newbold's book "Project management in the Fast Lane". He has a tie of some sort with ProChain and I thought the book would...
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Michael Carroll
mcarroll@...
Feb 11, 2003 6:32 am
Sam, Pro-Chain is an add on product that is programmed in the VBA language embedded in MS Project. One creates a network of tasks in MS Project, then you use...
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Pradeep Shekade
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Feb 11, 2003 2:10 pm
Hello, Please let me know as to how can I remove myself from this list. Thanks, Pradeep __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
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Wehr, Michael J.
Wehr.Michael@...
Feb 11, 2003 2:18 pm
Thanks for all these great references - it will take awhile to research them :-) ... From: Michael Carroll [mailto:mcarroll@...] Sent: Tuesday,...
... Only those "certifications" that are available within the TOC community, but then they don't carry any weight in the larger PM community. They also focus ...
... Foreign, initially, but easily presented and justified. It ain't rocket science. ... In a word, yes. In a few more, yes, in a variety of environments,...
On 2/10/03 9:55 AM, "Andy Baumer <andybaumer@...>" ... The best answer for this question is... ...it depends. Of the four choices out there (listed in...
... I assume you meant to say methodology and not mythology. ;-) I'd rather not turn this forum into a general ProChain support group, but suffice it to say...
Hello, I'm a new member of the group. I'm a computer science student at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and my final project, that I'm...
Another reason to avoid starting tasks earlier than necessary is that it defeats the ability of the team, and more importantly the manager, to focus. If you...
