Your next project consists of 5 consecutive 10-day activities,each estimated by a different worker in your organization.You have all secretly added your own safety margin of 4 days into your estimates and you watch in horror as the project manager whips out his copy of Critical Chain and slams it on the table midway through their first project meeting."I'm taking your buffers and making them my own," he bellows.You recoil from this news and do some quick mental arithmetic.Now that you know the project manager is a Goldratt disciple,you know that the new project buffer will be:
A)25 days
B)20 days
C)15 days
D)10 days

Question

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The project manager is applying the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) principle by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, which involves centralizing safety margins (buffers) rather than having them individually added to each task. Since each of the 5 activities had an individual buffer of 4 days, totaling 20 days, and these are now being centralized, the project manager will likely reduce the overall buffer. However, the correct answer, based on the information given, is not directly about the reduction but about the action of centralizing buffers. The question does not provide enough detail to calculate the exact new buffer size according to CCPM principles, but it suggests a significant reduction. The choice of 10 days (D) is the smallest buffer option given, reflecting the concept of reducing the overall buffer by centralizing it, although the exact calculation method for the new buffer size is not detailed in the question.

Your Next Project Consists of 5 Consecutive 10-Day Activities,each Estimated