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The Critical Chain/Buffer Management (CC/BM) approach originally introduced by E. Goldratt in his novel “Critical Chain”, written in 1997 as an application of the “Theory of Constraints”, is a project management technique that introduces some novel ideas on top of the well-known and generally accepted resource constrained project scheduling principles. It introduces the idea of buffering projects, rather than individual activities, in a clever way in order to guarantee that the project deadline is met, and can therefore be considered as a new approach to assure better project control through project and feeding buffer management.
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This section is also available as an article entitled “Critical Chain/Buffer Management: Sizing project and feeding buffers” published online at PM Knowledge Center.
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This section is also available as an article entitled “Sizing CC/BM buffers: The cut and paste method” published online at PM Knowledge Center.
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This section is also available as an article entitled “Sizing CC/BM buffers: The root squared error method” published online at PM Knowledge Center.
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This section is also available as an article entitled “Sizing CC/BM buffers: The adaptive procedure with density” published online at PM Knowledge Center.
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This section is also available as an article entitled “Sizing CC/BM buffers: The adaptive procedure with resource tightness” published online at PM Knowledge Center.
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Vanhoucke, M. (2016). Buffer Management. In: Integrated Project Management Sourcebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27373-0_8
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