Author Biography 

 

Eduardo Miranda is a Program Director at Ericsson Research Canada and an industrial researcher affiliated with the Research Laboratory in Software Engineering Management at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is in charge of investigating new management techniques for planning and tracking projects. He has a BSc in System Analysis from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a MEng. from the University of Ottawa, Canada and a MSc.

In Project Mangement from the University of Linköping, Sweden. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. Contact him at Ericsson Research Canada, 8500 Decaire Blvd., Town of Mount Royal, Quebec, H4P 2N2, Canada; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

 

Abstract 

 

Cutting content seems to be the prevalent way of meeting deadlines in projects that are running late. But why waste effort and time working on things that most likely, are going to go at the first sign of trouble?  Why don’t make the decisions about what is important and what is not up-front, and only start work on the latter if we have the necessary time to do it? By combining critical chain (CC) and Incremental Development (ID), two well known techniques, we can create a new approach to plan and execute projects, which guaranties, with a set probability, the delivery of an agreed subset of the total functionality by a preset date. 

 

Keywords 

 

Project planning, incremental development, critical chain, risk management, project management and control, design-to-schedule.