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.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Movies on Monday Afternoon -- A favorite recent quote...
"People who have learned to answer email on Sunday evenings also need to learn how to go to the movies on Monday afternoons. By redesigning the architecture of time, we can make room for work, leisure, and idleness." - Ricardo Semler, President, Semco
Project Breathalyzer -- A PDF suitable for framing.
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Friday, February 10, 2006
Friday Fun: Dilbert for Project Managers -- Something tells me that Scott Adams has been recently exposed to the wonderful world of PMI Certification. Check out a series started this week before it disappears. And on Wednesday, there was another good one.
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It's an excellent set of posts, covering topics not unlike those I did in a series a couple years ago from a critical chain perspective, where I talked about making project promises using range estimates and buffered schedules, and keeping those promises via risk analysis using buffermanagement.
I think we're talking about the same things, just using different tools to accomplish similar objectives in a shared view of the reality of uncertainty inherent in projects.
(By the way, when I look in my Bloglines aggregator, the difference in subscription number that I've got (380) compared to Glen (27) is totally disproportionate to the recent value of our respective content. If you're reading my blog for project management "insight" in Bloglines, or any feed reader, I strongly recommend you go grab Glen's feed as well. Now.)
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