Primary Constraint of a project

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Endale Mekonnen Demissie Chief Executive Officer ( C.E.O)| MAKE Enterprise Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

I agree that Project Constraints are competing; however, I also equally agree that there will be prime constraint in the project based on contract type, like for fixed cost contract, cost is primary constraint, for T&M Contracts, Scope and Quality are both primary constraints, and for Time-of-the-essence, contract schedule is primary. Do you agree?

Posted: Nov 1, 2018 7:00 AM

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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States

Nov 01, 2018 11:48 AM

Replying to Endale Mekonnen Demissie

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I think R&D has T&M contract sense, may be that is why you are mostly focusing on the deliverable as you mentioned.

In that case, I suppose the primary constraint would be that we don't run out of money. :-) In large organizations however, there might be a very big bucket of money, and my project is one small fraction of that. In reality, I'm never going to come up against that constraint so it doesn't steer the project unless I'm told to cease and desist on spending T&M. The real constraints driving the project are TPMs or other KPAs, business constraints that dictate whether or not we have a marketable project such as cost and time to market, and the all important reporting to the people paying the bills so that they don't shut the money off.

Posted: Nov 1, 2018 12:05 PM

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