Practical Values: How to Conduct Better Meetings
What’s the biggest source of headaches and wasted time in your company? For many people, it’s the frequent, interminable meetings. People often feel like they’re spending all their time in…
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Posts by Rob Newbold
Why Projects Stay on Track – Until They’re Not
Why Project Status Says "On Track," Right Up Until It Isn't A project can show green status for months and still miss its delivery date by weeks, without anyone lying…
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Critical Path vs. Critical Chain
What Critical Path Scheduling Doesn't Account For The critical path is the longest sequence of dependent tasks in a project schedule, calculated from task durations and logical dependencies alone. The…
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Resource Contention Across Projects
Why Dashboards Don't Fix It Resource contention happens when two or more projects need the same person, team, or equipment at the same time. Most tools address this by giving…
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The Multitasking Penalty
Why "Urgent" Work Is Often Slower Work Switching between tasks carries a measurable performance cost, even when the switch is planned and expected. Research on task-switching has found productivity losses…
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The Low-Risk Adoption Path
Do You Have to Fully Adopt Critical Chain to Get Value From Fusion Online? No — and this isn't a loophole in the methodology, it's a deliberate capability ProChain built…
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