Critical Chain Project Management
Lean Project Management Workshop
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 project from basic R&D to construction, in all industries. Lean Project Management (LPM), embodying 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
Every project manager is faced with the demands to do more with less and do it quicker. Many companies have moved to management by project, and proceeded to train people in the ways of the 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 new Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) method focuses your project management efforts and project teams to create repeatable project success, and accelerate project completion; usually by at least one half the previous time.
CCPM builds on the important parts of the CMM and PMBOK, but makes them work for you.
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.
Program Managers, accountable for the scheduling and success of multiple projects.
Functional Managers, responsible for assigning resources to multiple projects with conflicting demands.
Senior Managers who want to achieve a step change in organizational performance.
What You Will Learn
This two-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
Benefits to Your Company
- 300% or more improvement in Benefit/Cost for projects.
- Increased customer satisfaction.
- Project success rates (scope, cost, schedule) improve from low tens of percents to 100%.
- Project delivery times cut by one half or more.
- Reduced backlog of projects.
- More projects complete per year than before.
- More successful projects with no increase in resources.
- Improved satisfaction and motivation of project team members.
Benefits of Attending
- You will learn how to increase your personal productivity
- Your projects will complete on time, all the time…usually in much less time than previous similar projects.
- You will be able to simplify complex business problems and quickly focus on what maters most.
- You will improve the motivation and satisfaction of your project team members.
- You will have a new process to develop effective project schedules.
What Makes This Seminar Unique
All project managers can profit immediately from major course ‘take aways,’ regardless of whether your organization chooses to use CCPM as a standard or not.
Most effective for the organization when included as part of an implementation plan including 4 hour training of all project resources, establishing project priority and buffer management processes, and planning of on-going and upcoming projects. We can help you develop an organization wide implementation plan.
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:
September 21-22, Houston, Texas
