An overview of critical chain applied to project management

• Author(s): Correia, Francisco ; Abreu, António
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/11720
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Project management; Theory of constraints; Critical chain; PERT/CPM; Project scheduling
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): RCIPL

Description

The characterization and assessment of the Critical Chain (CC) approach and the adaptation of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to Project Management is an important element to help promoting the development of this field. Starting with a brief discussion about the CPM method and PERT method, this paper introduces some discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of the CC concerning to traditional approaches.