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Critical Chain vs Critical Path 

 October 20, 2019

By  Dave Litten

Critical Chain vs Critical Path

The Critical Chain Management Method is only a few years old, but this topic started spreading around the project management world long before Eliyahu Goldratt published his novel about it. The novel was an interesting read, but focused how the technique EVOLVED rather than HOW to apply it.

Critical Chain vs Critical Path

It's well known that Eliyahu's method involves the use of buffers and takes into consideration available resources and the bottlenecks that arise from those, but little is known about how you should take a project and BLEND this method into it.

Critical Chain vs Critical Path is the first question that pops into mind, and that in turn raises an even bigger question - should you use BOTH?

The answer is YES.

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In fact, I show you how in easy steps to carry out ALL of the following:

  • Critical Chain Origins
  • Critical Path verses Critical Chain
  • Critical Path Problems
  • Critical Chain Advantages
  • The Critical Chain Method
  • Critical Chain Estimating
  • As Late As Possible Scheduling
  • Critical Chain Buffers
  • PERT Estimates
  • Project Level PERT
  • Buffer Size Cut and Paste 
  • Buffer Size Adaptive with density
  • Buffer Size Root Squared
  • RSEM with PERT
  • Buffer Size resource tightness
  • Approaches to resource conflicts
  • PRINCE2 Buffer Use
  • Critical Chain and Agile
  • Critical Chain Monitoring and Control
  • Critical Chain with Microsoft Project

Dave Litten


Dave spent 25+ years as a senior project manager for UK and USA multinationals and has deep experience in project management. He now develops a wide range of Project Management Masterclasses, under the Projex Academy brand name. In addition, David runs project management training seminars across the world, and is a prolific writer on the many topics of project management.

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