The Triple Constraints in Project Management

Table of contents

1. Preface
2. Acknowledgments
3. CHAPTER 1   The Art of Strategic Failure
   1. Failing Your Way to Success
   2. Defining Quality
   3. The Hierarchy of Failure
4. CHAPTER 2   The Triple Constraints: Time, Cost, and Performance
   1. Ways to Define Triple Constraint Categories
   2. Triplets, Quadruplets, and More
   3. What About Customer Relations?
   4. Why Performance (and Not “Scope” or “Quality”)?
   5. Why Not Separate Resources from Cost?
   6. Understanding Why
5. CHAPTER 3   The Hierarchy of Constraints
   1. Exploiting the Weak Constraint
   2. Who Determines the Right Hierarchy of Constraints?
   3. Strategies for Identifying the Correct Hierarchy
   4. Can You Have Two Drivers Simultaneously?
   5. Can the Hierarchy of Constraints Change?
6. CHAPTER 4   Strategies for Managing Time-Driven Projects
   1. How Serious Is the Deadline?
   2. Imprecise but Critical Deadlines
   3. Important Deadlines Have Reasons
   4. Managing Non-Driver Deadlines
   5. Case Studies
   6. Cost As the Weak Constraint
7. CHAPTER 5   Strategies for Managing Performance-Driven Projects
   1. Features and Benefits
   2. Case Studies
   3. Time As the Weak Constraint
8. CHAPTER 6   Strategies for Managing Cost-Driven Projects
   1. Case Studies
   2. Strategies for Cutting Project Performance with Minimal Impact
   3. Performance As the Weak Constraint
9. CHAPTER 7   Conflict Management and Multiple Stakeholders
   1. Sources of Project Management Power
   2. Strategies for Handling Conflicting Triple Constraint Hierarchies
10. CHAPTER 8   The Power of Three
11. Bibliography
12. Index