Introduction: At AMIS we have a group of Project Managers who exchange experiences and knowledge with each other. This group read the book of Lawrence P. Leach about Critical Chain Project Management and the group agreed that we would try out the ideas described in this book in our projects. The book takes the ideas from Goldratt (The goal) and transfers them from a Production environment to a Project environment. The results described in the book (projects delivered for far less (up to 40%) than the original time and budget) made us very enthusiastic.   The key issue described in the book is to find the ‘bottleneck resources’ in a project, and make sure that these ones are always at work at full capacity. In case of a System Development Process it usually is a top developer or a functional designer. To make sure they can go on with their work, one has to arrange that there is a buffer of work in the chain before them, so they cannot run out of work. One must also make sure that these scarce resources are working on the things that only they can do, for making the team realize their goal (Project delivered in time and on or below budget), and nothing else.   A second More >