Abstract
Enterprises often face multi-project management challenges at the same time. With the research of critical chain method for single project schedule management being ever-accelerated perfectly, it has the great practical significance application to multi-project management. This paper introduces steps of the critical chain which are used in multi-project management. Nowadays, Priority based multi-project critical chain method may lead to lower priority project’s completion time much longer than it completes independently. Considering to this, the paper puts forward the method that considerate with resource constraint and time constraint to recognize the critical chain, and demonstrates this method is feasible.
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Wang, Hp., Liu, Bn., Dong, Xf. (2013). The Recognition and Optimization of the Critical Chain. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38427-1_41
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