Great 60 Second spot on Critical Chain
Just as a manufacturing production line has constraints that prevent unlimited throughput, and therefore, unlimited profits, so do projects.
The Critical Chain Project Management method requires that full attention be devoted to the project's "due date" and by that I mean the first and primary due date. Focus is then applied to ensure that tasks are completed only as necessary to protect the final project due date. The concept of individual tasks finishing on time (or early) or even "late" is not a significant factor in most environments.
Let me repeat: individual task completion dates are not important!
Due Date Performance of the whole Project is the key metric.
Once you approach project modeling from the proper vantage point, it is easy to understand why so many projects are late. Yes, there is a lot more to it (than this blog entry will permit), but the key concept should be easy to grasp.
Project Plan
Consider a project to move one's residence from the present city "A" to city "B" which happens to be in another state over 2,000 miles away. Does it really matter whether you finish the bedroom packing before the laundry room? Usually not. Almost never!
The only date that matters is that the moving truck will arrive on date "X". And everything must be packed, staged and ready to "rock & roll!"
Therefore, your planning tools need revised.
New vision = new approach and new tools.
Simply Results.
Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey, Jonah
Throughput.us LLC
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