Steel industry example - seek out the Bethlehem Steel example. The key to change was in changing a measure - from tons/hour to. Jim Bowles Greetings members! ...
The following CriticalChain poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: WIP stands for Work In... CHOICES AND RESULTS - Process, 4 votes,...
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Hi, Should the nodes in a Critical Chain project network consist of activities or desired outcomes (deliverables), or doesn't it matter? The reason I ask is...
Henrik, I think Bill says that you must write the obstacles as conditions and the IO as conditions or actions, thought it is better to write them as actions, ...
Hi everyone, I'm doing a research to my MBA about CCPM specifically in risk management. I got a very good article by Francis S. "Frank" Patrick (Focused ...
Hi everyone, I'm doing a research to my MBA about CCPM specifically in risk management. I got a very good article by Francis S. "Frank" Patrick (Focused ...
Henrik - ... In general, they should be activities, and it does matter. Verbs are important. There is often a tendency to create project networks as loosely...
Hi, Prasad I am looking for a way to model it in Microsoft project at the moment. I'd be interested to have you share your ideas here. Larry ... minded, then...
Hi, Henrik The answer is yes. In the TOC paradigm, the PRT is generally outcomes...deliverables. The TRT was the tool for detailing the activities to produce...
Hi Larry, I must admit that I am not an expert on MS Project. Having been in scheduling for 30 years, I failed to find any value in this software for...
Hi Larry, Henrik You asked: I am looking for a way to model it in Microsoft project at the moment. I'd be interested to have you share your ideas here. And...
Larry, I am sorry I am not sure that a PRT is “just like” a WBS. In WBS, each level is the complete agregate of the inmediate inferior level. I mean, 2.1 +...
Hi, Mario You are correct. I should have mentioned that. They key point was that it contains results, not actions...usually...and that the TRT was the weapon...
Hi, Jim I couldn't find Kathy's paper any more. I recall (which may be flawed recollection...how time flies!) it started with assuming incorrect use of the...
Hi, All Jim was kind of enough to send me a copy of Kathy Austin's paper. Here is the note I sent in reply: Thanks! This is a later edition of Kathy's paper...
You can find Kathy's article here: http://web.archive.org/web/20010815120907/www.aptconcepts.com/articles.htm If you've not seen the internet archive then go...
Hi, All A philosophical question: "Should you pick a drum that is normally on the critical chain of your projects, or should you pick one that is not?" I think...
How is it a drum if it is NOT on the critical chain? The idea is to find and exploit the constraining [node, since you want to include ideas other than...
... Your statement, above, illustrates my unending heartburn with the decade-long misdirection that's been created with this term, critical-chain. Please don't...
Hi Tony I share your pain. As the inventor of the multi-project solution - BTW a brilliant adaptation of the DBR application - perhaps you need to write a book...
Mario, I think you have a question in here about "activities on node".  There is another CPM technique called "activity on arrow".  "Activity on arrow"...
... Hello Jim, As you suspect, the answer is that it depends on the nature of the desired output, the technologies available to the company, and the skills of...
Hi, Doug The drum and the critial chain are separate concepts. The critical chain is the constraint to the single project, but not to the Throughput of the...
Hi, Tony Just so. If you addressed the question, I didn't get your answer...unless it was "Machs nichts"...which may be the answer I now perfer. The question...
Larry Once again you are misdirecting people - the drum resource may not be a constraining resource as you describe. In many cases where there is excess ...
Hi, Jim By definition, the drum must be the contraint to throughput of the system. If you use it to pipeline, it becomes the constraint, even if it was not...
... Not so! Jim is correct. The bottleneck and the drum can be different resources. The bottleneck is the resource that can become the constraint, given...
Tony thank you for supporting my views I always appreciate what you write - I might not be as experienced as Larry as a Project manager but I do believe that...
Yes, Jim, that's what I'm talking about. However, I see the need and the means to take the models well beyond projects and into the very design of businesses...
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