Results tagged “CCPM” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Several conversations have me thinking about why projects - any kind of project - falls off the rails so many times, even though people have articulated the lists of why this happens over and over again.
The fundamentals of CCPM workshop was interesting in that I saw some new simulations (games) and he put the vicious cycle of standard operations in a drawing that made a lot of sense to me.
This week, I get to spend several days in San Francisco at Realization's Project Flow 2009 conference. Hopefully, I get to meet some additional friends.
Mark Woeppel will be doing a Critical Chain Project Management Webinar on 29 April.
PMConnection gives us "10 Signs You Don't Really Know Microsoft Project." But they don't explain why these are a problem. Here is my attempt.
James Dellow has pointed me to some interesting thoughts on the "Next Generation solutions to the Information Overload problem" with particular attention paid to some Nathan Zeldes articles.
Kevin Fox of the TOC Center has started bloging with the obviously-titled Theory of Constraints blog. The latest entry is on CCPM, More Projects Faster.
Tyner Blain: "Your project is almost finished. Last week, it was almost finished. And you suspect that next week, it will still be almost finished. Why does this happen, and what can you do about it?" Beautiful.
The US Air Force must be pleased with the improved performance generated by Critical Chain Project Management. The Hill Air Force Base has announced their performance improvements as a result of CCPM and Lean.
The Project Management Podcast at the beginning of December interviewed Allen Elder of No Limits Leadership, who has been doing Critical Chain Project Management and Theory of Constraints for many years.
The first two days of the conference were actually a workshop with Eli Goldratt. The second two days are more like your regular conference with a number of speakers and parallel speaker tracks.
David Snowden has an item on Reality avoidance that makes a connection to some thoughts on project execution in the Critical Chain Project Management world.
Jack Dahlgren suggests that we should treat "The Schedule as a Symptom" at his Project blog. I like the description of the schedule as a hoped-for picture of how the project will go.
Typical CCPM Project Management Implementation. I'm mostly linking this because it is a nice example of retrospectively walking through a CCPM implementation, complete with fever charts.
Typical CCPM Project Management Implementation. I'm mostly linking this because it is a nice example of retrospectively walking through a CCPM implementation, complete with fever charts.
Brian Kennemer has written "KM and PM: The Redheaded Step Children of all Organizations?" with some great thoughts about the psychology of software and knowledge & project management.
A Kuro5hin article lays out the steps to passive-aggressively killing an organizational change project. People are funny critters. They can see through change programs, and they also ignore it when it's truly helpful.
A list of Critical Chain Project Management vendors.
Some thoughts on the CIO Radio interview with Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister around their new book, Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects.
A great example for the importance of holistic thinking in any business.
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