Clearly define the project objective and deliverables.

Work backward from the objective by adding tasks using necessity-based logic (In order to …, we
must first …).

The process includes a number of checks to verify that all precedence relationships are accurate and
included. INTRODUCTION
As we enter the twenty-first century, “quality” has come to encompass
much more than just product or process conformance. More and more,
quality
is in the eye of the beholder: the customer. And with the widespread
acceptance
of higher product and process quality standards as a way of life among
commercial
companies, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies, the
playing field tends to level out to some degree. For the customer, this means
that it can be more difficult to differentiate between the product quality
offered
by competitors. When this happens, it’s only natural that a customer’s
attention
should shift to another characteristic of the interaction with a supplier:
quality of service. (“Sure, they deliver a quality product, but their service
leaves
a lot to be desired.”)
In many cases, the difference between winning and losing a customer’s
business (or continued loyalty) resides in the quality of the interaction
between
customer and supplier. In other words, service can be as important an
element
in customer satisfaction as product quality. Once managers venture beyond
product and process conformance (or quality), they move up from process
improvement to system-level improvement.
More than ever before, quality managers are finding themselves in need of
system-level tools in order to sustain the relevance in business success
they’ve
fought so hard to achieve. One such system-level tool is constraint
management.
Constraint management doesn’t assume that product and process
quality have already been taken care of. Rather, it acknowledges that quality
is
but one important element in the business equation. Constraint
management
seeks to help managers at all levels of an organization maintain proper focus
on
the factors that are most critical to overall success