Critical Chain Project Management (Artech House Professional Development Library)

Contents  v......Page 5
Preface  xv......Page 14
1  Begin at the beginning  1......Page 17
1.1  Project success  3......Page 19
1.2  Defining the problem  4......Page 20
1.3  Success with critical chain  23......Page 39
1.4  Summary  26......Page 42
References  27......Page 43
2  The synthesis of TQM, TOC, and PMBOK  29......Page 45
2.1  PMBOK  31......Page 47
2.2  TQM  34......Page 50
2.3  TOC  52......Page 68
2.4  Summary  71......Page 87
References  73......Page 89
3.1  Deciding what to change  75......Page 90
3.2  Toward a core dilemma  78......Page 93
3.3  Toward desired effects  90......Page 105
3.4  Solution feasibility (evidence)  95......Page 110
3.5  Determining what to change to  97......Page 112
3.6  Summary  98......Page 113
References  99......Page 114
4.1  From system requirements to system design  101......Page 115
4.2  Developing the critical chain solution  106......Page 120
4.3  Exploiting the plan using buffer management  117......Page 131
4.4  Features (more or less) from PMBOK  120......Page 134
4.5  Summary  123......Page 137
References  124......Page 138
5.1  Project initiation process  125......Page 139
5.2  The project charter  126......Page 140
5.4  The work breakdown structure  127......Page 141
5.5  Responsibility assignment  130......Page 144
5.6  Milestone sequencing  131......Page 145
5.7  Work packages  133......Page 147
5.8  The project work plan  144......Page 158
5.9  A planning and control policy  145......Page 159
5.10  Change management  147......Page 161
5.12  Summary  148......Page 162
References  149......Page 163
6.1  The process  151......Page 164
6.2  The “good enough” concept  153......Page 166
6.3  Examples and practice  154......Page 167
6.4  Buffer and threshold sizing  164......Page 177
6.5  Cost buffer  170......Page 183
6.6  Methods to create the plan  171......Page 184
6.7  External constraints  174......Page 187
6.8  Reducing planned time (a.k.a. dictated end dates)  175......Page 188
6.9  Enterprisewide resource planning  176......Page 189
6.10  Frequently asked questions  177......Page 190
6.11  Summary  180......Page 193
7.1  Identifying the multiproject constraint  183......Page 195
7.2  Exploiting the multiproject constraint  189......Page 201
7.3  Features of multiproject critical chains  190......Page 202
7.4  Introducing new projects to the enterprise  195......Page 207
7.5  Summary  197......Page 209
8  Measurement and control  199......Page 211
8.1  Buffer management  201......Page 213
8.2  The cost buffer  205......Page 217
8.3  Quality measurement  208......Page 220
8.4  Responses to buffer signals  209......Page 221
8.5  The cost world  211......Page 223
8.6  Change control actions  214......Page 226
8.7  Summary  215......Page 227
References  216......Page 228
9  Implementing the change to critical chain  217......Page 229
9.1  Implementation model  218......Page 230
9.2  Vision of the end  223......Page 235
9.3  Implementation theory  224......Page 236
9.4  Goldratt’s resistance model  239......Page 251
9.5  To pilot or not to pilot?  242......Page 254
9.6  Plan the change  244......Page 256
9.7  Move ahead!  251......Page 263
9.8  Measure and control implementation  253......Page 265
9.10  Summary  255......Page 267
References  256......Page 268
10  Project risk management  257......Page 269
10.2  Risk management process  259......Page 271
10.3  Identifying risks  262......Page 274
10.5  Summary  268......Page 280
References  269......Page 281
11  The TOC thinking process applied to project management  271......Page 282
11.1  Applying Goldratt’s thinking process to project management  272......Page 283
11.2  Current reality tree  273......Page 284
11.3  Future reality tree  279......Page 290
11.4  Prerequisite tree  287......Page 298
11.6  The multiproject process  289......Page 300
11.7  Future directions  292......Page 303
11.8  Summary  293......Page 304
11.9  Closure  294......Page 305
References  295......Page 306
List of acronyms and abbreviations  297......Page 307
Glossary  299......Page 309
About the author  315......Page 324
Index  317......Page 325