Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Critical Chain Solutions to Resource Conflicts

1. LO 11.5 Understand how critical chain methodology resolves project resource conflicts.

Suppose that after laying out the revised schedule (refer to Figure 11.9c), we discover a resource contention point. Let us assume that activities B and D require the same person, resulting in an overloaded resource. How would we resolve the difficulty? Because the start dates of all activities are pushed off as late as possible, the steps to take are as follows:

1. The preceding task for activity D is activity C. Therefore, the first step lies in assigning a start-as-late-as-possible constraint to activity C.

2. To remove the resource conflict, work backward from the end of the project, eliminating the sources of ...