Critical Chain Project Management

CCPM may be the most important new approach to project scheduling in the last thirty years. It is a method that can be applied to meet the ever-increasingly aggressive schedule requirements that every project manager is facing while, at the same time, helping organisations to maintain quality and productivity. It has been proven to be an effective method to protect your projects from the inevitable slippages that occur in every project.

 

This third edition [...] is packed with fresh, field-tested insights on how to plan, lead, and complete projects with unprecedented efficiency. It provides project managers with expanded coverage on critical chain planning, multiple project selection and management, critical change project networks, new Lean techniques related to critical chain project management (CCPM), and effective strategies for bringing about the organisational change required to succeed. This cutting-edge work spells out all the CCPM techniques, tools, and theory managers need to develop critical chain solutions and apply them to their challenging projects. Moreover, the book helps managers master key project skills not covered in other critical chain books, such as scope control and risk management.

 

This one-day seminar introduces you to the CCPM concepts. Participants gain new insight into the fundamental nature of projects, learn the key differences between traditional project management and the CCPM approach, and will discover the implementation elements required to deliver projects in less time, on time, all the time.

Research shows that dividing attention across multiple activities is taxing on the brain and often comes at the expense of real productivity. As much as a 40% loss.

[...] Skip Angel, one of the Agile Coaches I work with, attended a training course on SAFE. He gave a cracking one hour summary of the course to the coaching team at the client. Our conclusion was that we have a process that looks very similar to SAFE which gave us confidence that we are on the “right track”. The SAFE material is lovely, it is wonderful marketing material to sell scaled agile.

Our other conclusion was that we much prefer our approach based on Theory of Constraints to implementing SAFE. These are my (not my Client’s) opinion on Safe versus Theory of Constraints. [...]