{"id":104,"date":"2008-08-27T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/scheduling-critical-chain-method\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:04:00","slug":"scheduling-critical-chain-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/scheduling-critical-chain-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling: Critical Chain Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/SLWoiwWHftI\/AAAAAAAAAa8\/q5G-Trg-plA\/s1600-h\/critical_chain.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/SLWoiwWHftI\/AAAAAAAAAa8\/q5G-Trg-plA\/s200\/critical_chain.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239279056562126546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  >Something I didn\u00b4t found in PMBOK and Rita Mulcahy&#8217;s book about this method:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  >Critical chain project management uses <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">buffer management<\/span> instead of earned value management to assess the performance of a project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  >Critical chain method adds the large amounts of safety time to activities in project buffers to protect due-date performance, and to avoid wasting this safety time through bad multitasking, student syndrome,  Parkinson&#8217;s Law and poorly synchronised integration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  >The identification and insertion of <span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\">buffers<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  ><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\">Project buffer<\/span>: inserted at the end of the project network. Any delays on the longest chain of dependant tasks will consume some of the buffer but will preserve the end date unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  ><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\">Feeding buffers<\/span>: added to protect the activities synchronization.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;\"  ><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-style: italic;\">Resource buffers<\/span>: they are set to ensure that the appropriate people and skills are available.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;\" >Some notes:<\/span><br \/><\/span> <span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:78%;\"  >Parkinson&#8217;s Law is the adage that &#8220;work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion&#8221;.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> <\/span><span style=\";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:78%;\"  ><\/p>\n<p>Student syndrome refers to the phenomenon that many people will start to fully apply themselves to a task just at the last possible moment before a deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I didn\u00b4t found in PMBOK and Rita Mulcahy&#8217;s book about this method: Critical chain project management uses buffer management instead of earned value management to assess the performance of a project. 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