Critical chain project management / Lawrence P. Leach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Begin at the beginning -- Project success -- Defining the problem -- How good is the current project system? -- The project management business -- Cause of the problem -- Right solution -- Right execution -- Success with critical chain -- The synthesis of TQM, TOC, and PMBOK -- PMBOK -- Project integration management -- Project scope management -- Project time management -- Project risk management -- Other PMBOK areas -- TQM -- Appreciation for a system -- Understanding variation and uncertainty -- Psychology -- Theory of knowledge -- TOC -- The throughput world -- The production solution -- Five focusing steps -- The thinking process -- Resistance to change -- The direction of the solution -- Deciding what to change -- Defining the project management system -- Project failure as the undesired effect -- Toward a core dilemma -- Longer and longer project duration -- Projects frequently overrun schedule -- Multitasking -- Core conflict leading to UDEs -- Toward desired effects -- Resolving the core conflict -- The resource constraint -- Solution feasibility (evidence) -- Determining what to change to -- The complete single-project solution -- From system requirements to system design -- Requirements matrix -- Summary of single-project critical chain -- Developing the critical chain solution -- Identifying the project constraint -- Exploiting the constraint -- Subordinating merging paths -- Task performance -- Early start versus late finish -- Exploiting the plan using buffer management.

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