Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Business Blog
This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project Management and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes). If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here .
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Leap Year Linkage -- So much interesting stuff, so little time for thoughtful commentary. At least there's an extra day this year to look over these links... - Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
Rx for Painless Change: How to Avoid Repetitive Change Syndrome
When Enough is Not Enough
Goldratt's Goal: Just keep it simple, India, Inc.
It Was the Best of Practices, It Was the Worst of Practices
Case Study: Critical Chain at NASA
Thinking Managers: de Bono and Heller
Thick as a (Campaign) Plank: The IT Outsourcing Crisis
Making Marketing Matter
Setting Requirements Priorities
Maps vs Directions
Strategies for Stability
Prospect, Then Pitch
Project management vs. managing innovation projects
Unconscious Choices
Mad Belt Disease: Over-Emphasis on Certification
Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution
Solving the real productivity crisis
The coming information collapse?
Lean Manufacturing: The 3rd Generation
What Keep Executives Awake at Night?
Why CEOs Fail
Iterative vs. Waterfall Software Development: Why don't companies get it?
Risk: Living Dangerously
Beyond the panel discussion And interesting-looking stuff from Amazon.com ... - User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
The Five Temptations of a CEO
Making Strategy: Learning by Doing
Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It
Dilbert: The Complete Series (1999)
The Office: The Complete First Series (2003)
Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development And, in an attempt to expand my "echo chamber," some new weblogs that I've come across recently and will likely be revisiting, pointing to, and conversing with... - Humans and Computing - Michael Hamman
Knowledge Notes - Judith Meskill
BusinessPundit - Rob ?
Projectified - Brian Kennemer
Project, Process & Business Improvement - A. J. Vasaris
Degrees of Project Management - Christian Connett
Fresh Inc. - from Inc. Magazine I'm off to Canada this week for a short gig (and a presentation at the Regina, Saskatchewan chapter of PMI), so expect light blogging from me for a bit. This list o'links should keep you busy enough 'til I get back. Enjoy.
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Critical Chain and (not or) XP Defining Project Success (But for Whom?) Down 'n Dirty w/TOC and PM (Part 1 of 5 consecutive posts) End of Project Review If Project Management is the Answer, What's the Question? In Defense of Planning It Ain't the Tools Lessons Learned, Revisited Predicting Uncertain Futures Project Conflicts Project Determinism (and other myths) Project Portfolio Management Promises, Predictions, and Planning Removing Bottlenecks - A Core Systems Design Principle Stage Gates and Critical Chain Ten Top Sources of Project Failure (The Executive Version) The Meaning of "Schedule"
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