In his book Kanban, David J. Anderson, in discusses how his approach evolved from drum-rope-buffer, part of Theory of Constraints and the work by Eliyahu Goldratt. Critical Chain is also based on the work by Goldratt, who passed away earlier this year. Both Theory of Constraints and Kanban are forms of pull systems. So is Critical Chain, like Kanban, another flavor of Agile, or is it something different?
During the Project Flow 2011 Conference held in San Diego this past November, a number of case studies were presented on how organizations used Critical Chain and the success that was achieved following this technique. A key concept that a number of the presenters attributed to …
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