Project Management

Critical Chain and Research

Many of our ProChain clients do significant R&D work, so people ask us from time to time whether critical chain is applicable in a research environment. The common wisdom is…

Be Fast Or Be Gone

The idea for my newest book Be Fast or Be Gone came to me while working on a contribution for my blog “The Point”. I have posted a number of…

Look Where You Want to Go

A while ago I completed a motorcycle safety class. There’s an interesting point they make over and over in the class: you should look where you want to go, not…

Checkmate

I just finished reading The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). It’s a well-written, entertaining book that promotes the use of checklists to make sure…