Critical Chain Project Management - CCPM
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CORE DEFINITION
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a project planning and management method created by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, focusing primarily on the resources required for project execution.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a project planning and management method created by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, focusing primarily on the resources required for project execution.
Anchor fast decisions
It overlays two realities on traditional CPM: resource constraints (limited people/equipment) and human behavioral biases (student syndrome—starting work only near deadlines; Parkinson's Law—work expands to fill the time allotted). It removes the 'private buffers' scattered across tasks, consolidating them into a 'project buffer' at the end of the project and 'feeding buffers' at path convergence points, managed centrally by the project manager.
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