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Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes (C-TANO) Templates that Project Managers can use

Here, Templates are available that Project Managers can use to help identify "Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes."

Download these useful Templates to use in your current and upcoming Projects. Use of them may improve overall productivity of the Project Execution and increase the probability of success of your Projects.

Implement these Templates and Tools as described in the 2008 Paper presented at the PMI Global Congresses and you and your Project Team will be working together to understand the Project and its scope in order to develop such Constraints. A by-product of this process is that the Project Team can improve their level of understanding and buy-in, thus increasing the chances of success of your Project.

The Tools also are defined in the PMBOK® Guide:

  • Brainstorming Technique (PMI, 2008, p. 286, p. 428)
  • Cause/Effect Tables, & Ishikawa’s Fishbone Diagram (PMI, 2008, p. 287, p. 208-209)
  • Root Cause Analysis (PMI, 2008, p. 204, p. 447)

These 2 sample Templates (2nd Edition) are discussed in the C-TANO Paper. Here they are available for download as a Microsoft Word 2003 Document and as a Microsoft VISIO 2002 Document, or the same documents in Adobe PDF file format for universal display. You can use these in order to help identify Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes in your Projects:

Click below to download:
Microsoft Word 2003 format -- Table 1. Template with Guidelines useful to identify Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes (2nd Edition)
Microsoft VISIO 2002 -- Figure 1. Cause and Effect Ishikawa Fishbone Diagram Template (2nd Edition)
Microsoft Word 2003 format -- Table 1. Template with Guidelines useful to identify Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes (2nd Edition)
Microsoft VISIO 2002 -- Figure 1. Cause and Effect Ishikawa Fishbone Diagram Template (2nd Edition)
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These Templates are described in this Paper presented at the PMI World Congresses:
"Constraints to Avoid Negative Outcomes -
A Proposal for a New Useful Category of PM Constraints
That Was Discovered While Analyzing a Project
Completed 20 Centuries Ago"