Critical Chain Project Management
(CCPM) is perhaps the best known of all the TOC applications.
Applying Constraints Management techniques to projects,
CCPM helps insure that to the greatest extent possible, projects
come in on schedule and on budget.
CCPM helps eliminate the multitasking that results in resource
contention. It buffers the project against variability and
uncertainty, while at the same time reduces the length of
many projects.
The Critical Chain is the longest chain of task and resource
dependencies. CCPM identifies crucial tasks feeding the Critical
Path, creating a new point of focus — the Critical
Chain.
What's more, most organizations do not do projects
in isolation,
but rather have multiple projects in planning and execution
at the same time.
Vector Strategies focus is therefore optimizing across
projects, to enhance the throughput of the entire organization,
rather
than treating projects in isolation.
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