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I've got about 30 Goldratt Institute "Jonah Upgrade" and conference videos (VHS) featuring Eli, various AGI "luminaries", and Success Story company ...
Frank Patrick
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Mar 1, 2008
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Work on the most valuable project first?? What are you thinking? Richard Zultner <Richard@...> C 2008 It seems obvious that if you have multiple...
Richard Zultner
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Mar 1, 2008
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Richard, Your analysis is incisive and _____ From: CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CriticalChain@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Zultner Sent:...
Clare Maday
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Mar 1, 2008
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Hi, Folks It really helps to get your minds around an ongoing system, and to keep it simple. I concluded long ago that when you take the long range view, it ...
Lawrence
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Mar 1, 2008
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Hit the wrong key. sorry Richard, Your analysis is incisive and insightful. Really well thought out! Can it be summed up as "Use simulations and projected cash...
Clare Maday
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Mar 1, 2008
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I've got a few takers lined up. I assume that, among them, the tapes are gone. My wife says I should have asked for more. -- Frank Patrick ... -- Frank Patrick...
Frank Patrick
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Check is in route. Please ship to Doug Boling 3005 High Vista Walk Woodstock, Georgia 30189 Thanks. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Doug Boling
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Mar 2, 2008
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my apologies. Meant to send directly to Frank. ... From: Doug Boling <euim817boling@...> Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [CriticalChain]...
Doug Boling
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Mar 2, 2008
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Hi, Richard Consider organizations of thousands of people with dozens of skills and projects. How do all resources know, all the time, "Which task do I work on...
Lawrence
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Mar 2, 2008
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Basic adult learning theory, which has seldom failed in my experience, although it maybe that I am expecting it and don't see the non-conforming cases: over...
Douglas Brown
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Mar 2, 2008
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Hi, Doug John Kotter's research supports your experience. He suggests four types of emotional responses that can lead to alternative non- changing behavior,...
Lawrence
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Mar 2, 2008
11:28 pm
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I'd tell you the answer, but it would sound like a commercial for cc-Pulse and cc-MPulse. Tony Rizzo TMx gives you _better_plans_ for your critical-chain...
Tony Rizzo
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Mar 3, 2008
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Hi, Tony Just the logic of it would do for a start. Assuming it would make sense logically (because I think that highly likely, coming from you), you know my...
Lawrence
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Mar 3, 2008
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... Protection ratio for a project: (buffer remaining) / (fully sized buffer for remaining work). Scott designed the measurement, not I. He very cleverly used...
Tony Rizzo
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Mar 3, 2008
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The most important question to address in multi-project critical chain is, "how is my system of projects doing?" Since the performance of the system is...
Richard Zultner
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Mar 3, 2008
5:36 pm
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I just wanted to say that I completely agree with Larry, that in making the transition to CC PM from traditional PM, the gain is so huge from the elimination...
Richard Zultner
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Mar 3, 2008
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I just want to say that I completely agree with Larry that you absolutely have to watch the buffer status of your projects, and if a project gets in trouble,...
Richard Zultner
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Mar 3, 2008
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Hi, Tony The grouping and sorting is similar to what Conceto and CCPM+ do,and to a Script that Scott prepared for a joint client using Sciforma software. I...
Lawrence
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Mar 3, 2008
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Hi, Richard Different roles in the project system have different questions, and thus need different information (as in Eli's defintion: the answer to the...
Lawrence
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Mar 3, 2008
7:48 pm
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Hi, Richard In P&Q, you are deciding which items to make. It is the equivalent to deciding which projects to approve. We agree that project benefit and drum...
Lawrence
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Mar 3, 2008
7:56 pm
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Larry, Not every decision regarding which task to work next involves a critical-chain task. There's a need for a criterion with which to choose among...
Tony Rizzo
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Mar 4, 2008
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Hi, Tony I know you know I know that. The other software computes the PROJECT buffer impact FOR EVERY INCOMPLETE TASK IN ALL THE PROJECTS. That's necessary to...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
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Richard wrote “The most important question to address in multi-project critical chain is, "how is my system of projects doing?" And he made several ...
Jim Bowles
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Mar 4, 2008
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Hi, Jim I have never had the case you think "most likely" for step 2. There is always a real drum. How can there not be? Why invalidate the whole basis of TOC...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
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Hi, Jim I have also come to realize your point 4 is wrong relative to feeding buffers. The role of feeding buffers is to, uh, buffer. They are not necessary...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
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Hi, Jim So, how do we resolve the apparant conflict of my assertion that "there is always a drum", and your point 5, "there is always excess capacity"? The...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
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Larry wrote: I have never had the case you think "most likely" for step 2. There is always a real drum. How can there not be? Why invalidate the whole basis of...
Jim Bowles
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Mar 4, 2008
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Hi, Jim That VV model doesn't meet any of the project environments I work in or have worked in. You seem to be trying to apply a production model to projects. ...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
4:29 pm
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Hi, Again Jim Oh, and I have done a few (4 or 5) product development environment implementations. They had internal resource constraints, too. I do not claim...
Lawrence
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Mar 4, 2008
7:42 pm
7996
The majority of the CCPM work I've done has been in new product development - we always identify a physical drum. There have been a couple where it could have...
William Hoefle
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