For all that I’ve read and done with ToCs and critical path analysis, the first thing that comes to my mind is still ‘avoiding this’:
(I genuinely find thinking ‘make sure you don’t do this’ at all stages is more effective than any theory I’ve read.)
Also, anything that has 2-3 paths to a potential goal that are at least partially independent will usually leave you in a better place than one linear path. Then it’s not so much ‘backchaining’ as switching emphasis (‘lobbying seems to have stalled, so let’s try publicity/behaviour change… then who knows, lobbying might be back on again’).
For all that I’ve read and done with ToCs and critical path analysis, the first thing that comes to my mind is still ‘avoiding this’:
(I genuinely find thinking ‘make sure you don’t do this’ at all stages is more effective than any theory I’ve read.)
Also, anything that has 2-3 paths to a potential goal that are at least partially independent will usually leave you in a better place than one linear path. Then it’s not so much ‘backchaining’ as switching emphasis (‘lobbying seems to have stalled, so let’s try publicity/behaviour change… then who knows, lobbying might be back on again’).