How does Critical Chain fit with PMIs PMBOK Guide processes and knowledge areas?
PMI’s “Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge,” commonly known as the “PMBOK Guide,” is an excellent attempt at clarifying the interactions of the different processes and knowledge areas associated with the subject. Critical Chain Scheduling and Buffer Management (as well as the Multi-Project Management Method) is an approach that was built up not from the pieces of the PMBOK, but from the goals and common problems associated with project management, from an understanding of statistical variation, and most importantly, from an understanding of human behavior. That the result of the common sense that went into its development provides coherent solutions to issues individually identified in the PMBOK is a testament to both the PMBOK and the utility of Critical Chain Scheduling and Buffer Management to achieve what the PMBOK prescribes. Based on the identification of project management processes found in the 1996 edition of the PMBOK Guide, Critical Chain-based project manageme
