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Critical Chain 101
Here are three Critical Chain best practices that can help all organizations and project teams work smarter:
1. Don’t start projects ASAP
Contrary to single projects, in which it is good to get a head start as soon as the project is approved, starting all projects as soon as possible is counterproductive in the multiproject world. It creates unnecessary bottlenecks, gives rise to confusion about priorities and induces multitasking. Instead, multi-project success starts with acknowledging that the most heavily loaded resources (constraints) determine how many projects can be done. Releasing projects faster than what the constraints can handle is useless. Therefore, the first rule of multiproject success is to select the most profitable project mix given the constraints and release work into execution based on the availability of those constraints.
2. Assign buffers where they can do the most good
To protect projects from uncertainties in single projects, the most typical option is to add safeties to every task. However, in multiproject environments, small certainties multiply and the safeties become immense. Therefore, the second rule of multiproject success is to have buffers smartly placed to protect the longest path, which ensures that the overall project keeps moving despite local delays. This is much more efficient than building safeties into …
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