Philip Marris, Managing Director of Marris Consulting, and Ian Heptinstall, Professor at the University of Birmingham, discuss Critical Chain and Critical Path, two approaches to project planning and monitoring that are often confused because of their similarity.

However, there are many differences between the two methods:

• Consideration of resource capacity, for better Critical Chain resource management
• Taking into account the uncertainties linked to the intrinsic nature of projects, with the integration of project buffers in Critical Chain.