Thanks Bill: I can use this list below in communicating why I had to pay attention to project a versus project b. However, in managing multiple projects many...
Hello Team: How does one put fire in the belly? How does one send the troops to war? How does one convince you what to pay attention to? How can we maintain...
... would ... does ... Thanks for the response, Bill. When leading unpaid volunteers, motivation and inspiration are especially important. If you ever add ...
On the tocexperts and cmsig discussion group, my good friend Tony Rizzo ... Note the "experience in CCPM" requirement and the US residency requirement. Also...
Because of management change in the board there is a need to evaluate the necessity of the project I'm working on. How do I proceed to make a common sense,...
Dear all I am implementing CCPM in a tool manufacturing company. First few CCPM plans I released, in the initial stage I had buffer more than what I had before...
If I do say so myself, there's been some pretty good stuff added to my weblog recently that may be of interest to the readers of the CriticalChain discussion...
Since joining this group back on Thursday 6/5/2003 I made a "project" of working my way through the list trying to read all of the posts here. While a solo...
... What was it Michael Corleone said in Godfather III? "Just when I think I'm out, they PULL me back in." heh heh You might want to think of it as an "agile"...
I followed the same path by reflexively clicking on the links that Frank provided and found myself in the middle of some excellent discussions on the...
Kent, Critical Chain only maps constraints. It is part of the Theory of Constraints (as you know) which seeks to eliminate constraints through elevation. In...
Hi All, Ed Yourdon ( http://yourdon.com/ ) has just released the "critical chain chapter" onto his website http://yourdon.com/books/DeathMarch/CH07A.html We...
I will agree with Frank's assessment and reflect my own thoughts. Particularly in regard to the OGB people. It sounds like the OGB team member is either the...
Good day, I have only recently learned about CCPM and this discussion group. I am confident that my questions have been addressed somewhere within the 800+...
... A couple possibilities... Set resource availability to some amount less than 100%. Perhaps allow the larger of the two task estimates to take into account...
... Dustin: 1) Segregate the resources, so that you have some resources that are dedicated to the project work. Count only on their capacity, and use the ...
Frank and Scott, Thanks very much for the prompt and informative replies. I have much work to do with establishing relative priorities (within projects and ...
Frank, In response to your specific question, we have a blend of oil well and Olympic stadium (figuratively, not literally) projects. Mostly oil wells. Thanks...
... What you seem to be saying almost sounds like a chicken-and-egg situation. "We can't do CCPM until we establish project priorities, and there is a lot of...
... In my opinion, the lack of prioritization (or more properly, Project Portfolio Management) will undercut ANY attempt at project management improvements,...
... Note well, Frank's comment above. Many organizations try to get to CCPM in 'stages', where they first try to improve their basic project management, then...
Actually Frank and Scott highlighted some of the things I like to expand on in response to your questions. - Prioritization: and that has to be done on 2...
... Project ... management ... are the ... All excellent points, especially in light of the minimal information that I have provided to this point about my...
