A survey of Project Management books and articles should lead us to believe that we live in a world of infinite access to resources. This has probably never been true but even less so today as organizations get more projectized and resource contention gets worse than ever.
One of the ways that this bizarre fantasy land shows up in the literature is the focus of Critical Path. Because what becomes clear is that as soon as you resource level your schedule your critical path is no longer a true critical path since resource restrictions open up scheduling gaps.
This is where RCP or Resource Critical Path comes into play. RCP is not a widely used term but a discussion can be found here and here.
And most importantly RCP is what is used as the Critical Chain in CCPM since Critical Chain places the focus on resource contention as the constraint and exploits it by optimizing resources on this RCP or Critical Chain.
2 comments:
I haven't heard about RCP before (the second link is fairly comprehensive about the subject). Thanks for mentioning this.
I would like to complement your post with an excellent article about the Critical Chain Method. This article praises CCM and mainly focuses on its advantages, let me know what you think!
Thats is an excellent summary. I have included the link in my next post and also put you site into the Cool links.
Keep up the good work!
Mans
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