Creating a Critical Path in Project Management

Jason continues the audiobook series with the next section of Elevating Construction Takt Planning, closing out the introduction before heading into the fable. In this chapter, he examines where the industry currently stands with CPM and Last Planner, introduces Scrum as a complement to Takt, and draws from Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings to explain why builders need both a short sword and a long sword in their scheduling arsenal. He also unpacks the critical difference between "true CPM" and "builder CPM", and why defending the latter has kept the industry stuck.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why the current industry mix of CPM, Last Planner, and three-week look-aheads keeps producing the same problems

• The Miyamoto Musashi analogy, using short swords and long swords against waste and variation

• The difference between true CPM and builder CPM, and why defenders are really defending the latter

• Why float calculations, forward and backward passes, and critical paths without buffers do more harm than good

• Practical paths to transition projects from CPM to Takt, including using Takt to govern CPM

If you're defending a broken leg instead of fixing it, the question isn't how well you've learned to limp, it's how much more of your life you want to spend limping.

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