Managing With Certainty
Critical Chain Project Management Workshop
Open Workshop in Houston, TX August 16-18
--If your company is like many, you continue to experience failure to deliver projects to schedule, budget, and scope, and may experience cancelled projects at an alarming rate. Although this problem seems to be publicized most in the IT industry, it affects all projects from basic R&D to construction, in all industries. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) enables you to deliver project success in ‘half the time, all the time’. CCPM users also report increased quality of work life for project team members. Lean thinking adds other ways to reduce waste during project delivery. This highly interactive workshop provides participants with the understanding and skills to immediately apply CCPM.
What's Happening
The demands to do more with less, and do it quicker, continue to characterize all project environments today. Many companies have moved to management by project, and proceeded to train people in the ways of the Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), or industry specific approaches such as Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (CMM) or the Construction Industry Institute (CII). Many managers become lost in the complexity of these heavy methods, and are looking for relief.
The CCPM method focuses your efforts and project teams to create repeatable project success, and accelerate project completion; usually by at least one half the previous time.
Organizations that commit to implementing the Critical Chain Project Management processes typically experience:
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Doubling of project output with the same resources
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Halving the average project lead times
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And increased profits.
What You Will Learn
This three-day workshop introduces Critical Chain concepts and when given internally, provides a forum to assess the organizational readiness for implementation. The emphasis is on identifying a path forward to improve project management results.
In the workshop, attendees gain new insight into the fundamental nature of projects, learn the key differences between traditional project management and the CCPM approach, and the elements required for a successful implementation. Through a facilitated discussion, these best-practice elements are matched against the organizational reality to assess the current state of the processes and develop consensus on a strategy to move towards improving operating results.
Deliverables:
- New insight into best practices in project management
- “Gap” analysis of the organization against best practice
- Defined implementation strategy with a rough business case
- Team consensus on the approach to change
Who Should Attend
Project Managers who are responsible for establishing or managing projects of any size or complexity; but especially those with high-risk projects.
Project Planners who are responsible for planning or coordinating projects
Program Managers who are accountable for the scheduling and success of multiple projects.
Functional Managers who are responsible for assigning resources to multiple projects with conflicting demands.
Senior Managers who want to achieve a step change in organizational performance.
Extensive question and answer interchanges throughout.
All project managers can profit immediately from the course deliverables, regardless of whether your organization chooses to use CCPM as a standard or not.
This workshop is typically held in-house and we can modify it to meet the needs of your group. To host, contact us at the number above.
Public Events:
Open Workshop in Houston, TX August 16-18