Teaching Critical Chain Project Management: The Academic Debate and Illustrative Examples

INFORMS Transactions on Education

William P. Millhiser¹  Joseph G. Szmerekovsky² 

[1] Baruch College, The City University of New York, New York, New York 10010;College of Business, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108

关键词: teaching project management;    teaching management science;    teaching operations management;    developing analytical skills;    developing critical thinking skills;    interdisciplinary teaching;   

DOI  :  10.1287/ited.1110.0083

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: INFORMS

【 摘 要 】

In recent decades, the project-scheduling practice known as critical chain project management (CCPM) has been successful in industrial applications, yet remains a subject of disagreement among scholars and is only sporadically taught in business schools. The purpose of this paper is to assess what aspects of CCPM are appropriate in operations courses, whether dedicated project management classes or broader introductory operations management classes. To answer this, we survey academic literature on traditional project management problems that gave rise to CCPM to understand if these issues are real. We also examine whether the CCPM methodology should, according to scholars, correct these problems, and survey project success stories attributed to CCPM. We conclude that CCPM is an appropriate project management methodology for student consideration on the basis of motivating critical thinking—especially about behavioral issues—rather than on formal scientific proof of its merit. In so doing, we survey teachi...

【 授权许可】

CC BY