Critical Chain Insights

There's a good article on Projects@Work about Critical Chain Project Management, with some insights from the field.

Still, organizations are slow to adopt it. The biggest roadblock is getting management to change their mindset, especially when it regards avoidance of multi-tasking and not focusing on task completion dates.

It's not foolproof, and makes some generic assumptions (i.e. assuming everyone pads their estimates), but certainly there are some valid points of CCPM that should be considered. Even if an organization doesn't buy into all its philosophies, they shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Here's the article...

http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/Articles/234283.cfm