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This presentation will start with the key issues of resource management that the critical chain solution addresses. She will elaborate on how these issues are the key strategic ones that both the business and resource managers are seeking to solve. The presentation will then show how the decision of criticality has had some flawed assumptions in relying on the most penetrating chains thought process. Though it might solve one issue, it creates its own negative branch. She will then show a model of criticality of tasks that synthesizes the real criticality across all paths of multiple projects and prevents feeding paths from becoming the most penetrating path. This tool alleviates the fear of crises developing for resource managers that will result in instant overloads or crisis response. It will lay down the logic of how a particular resource will always have a mix of red, yellow and green tasks and not all red tasks to respond to. The presentation will then show the most under-used, but most critical tool – the histogram. It will show the difference in looking at load to availability versus criticality load to availability. The presenter will show how criticality load to availability can be used to better assess capacity needs. Questions: 1. How is criticality different from most penetrating chain methodology? 2. Why is it important that feeding paths not become the most penetrating chain? 3. How is criticality calculated? 4. How is criticality load to availability calculated? 5. How is criticality load to availability used to assess capacity?