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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.

Thursday, September 30, 2004

September was Multi-Project Management Month -- The 10-part September series on Multi-Project Management is done. Contents included:
I - Intro
II - Organizations are Multi-Project Systems
III - Organizational Effectiveness is Resource Effectiveness
IV - Multi-tasking multiplies time to complete projects
V - Constraint-Savvy Multi-Project and Resource Management
VI - Protective Capacity
VII - Next Month - How Much Should We Take On?
VIII - Today - What Should I Be Working On?
IX - Next Year - How Much Can We Work On? (Current and Strategic Constraints)
X - It's Not How Much You Start. It's How Much You Finish.
(I need to say thanks to Heath Row (I smile every time I say, think, or write that name) over at Fast Company for sending a lot of traffic to the series.)

OK. That was September.

A lot of October's going to be a bit slow for blogging here while I head off for a bit of a walkabout next week, although I might blog my travels over on my more personal Unfocused weblog. In the meantime, allow me to direct your attention to Tony Rizzo's soap box, where he seems to be fleshing out a nascent book on Robust Project Design (tm) with a couple posts on Robust Project Planning (tm). As I've gushed entirely too much recently, Tony's one of my compadres and influences in the world of TOC, Critical Chain, and Multi-Project Management. I leave you in his capable hands while I refresh and rejuvenate on the other side of the world.

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