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Post your response to the following: Briefly describe your project management experience and the project you have selected to work on for this course. Based on your experience and the unique characteristics of your project: Analyze the relevance of critical chain project management. Is this an approach that would be helpful in assisting successfully managing your project? Explain your rationale and support that rationale with a minimum of one citation to the weekly resources Analyze the relevance of the flexibility of agile project management. Would an agile approach assist you in successfully managing your project? Explain your rationale and support that rationale with a minimum of one citation to the weekly resources
The selected project took more time and resources as it was planned to take. The project entangled in a vicious cycle which led us to inflate our estimates and press for more people, just to see the completion dates of our projects slipping more and more into the future. It become difficult to satisfy the needs of project sponsor to see the project in control. Even the duration that were planned to finish early took more time as people just filled the available time with the expansion of work.
CCPM approach is applicable to the project. It will help to figure out the problems in project management due to behavioral realities. This will help to eliminate the student syndrome and Parkinson’s Law problem. This will also help in exploiting the constraints rather than giving unnecessary buffers.
This approach will help in managing the project successfully by eliminating the problem due to constraints and ill allow the project success measurement in a simple and easy way.