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The Critical Chain Management
... Finding and making your way through the maze of project
constraints
Recognize the effect of the individuals on the outcome of the
project. An abysmal low percentage of the all PM professional
know anything about Project Management through Critical Chain.
Be one of the few who understand and know this management style.
Manage your team and project better and much more effectively.
Understand Negotiate and Master the art and craft of Project
Buffers.
Prerequisite
Mandatory to have at least 2 year of real time project management /
supervision experience
Course Level
Intermediate/Advanced
Duration
2 Days
Who should attend?
- Pre-Sales Team
- Program Managers
- Project Managers
- Account Managers
- Project Leaders
- Portfolio Managers
- Human Resource Managers
- Manager of Managers
Performance Focus
- To understand traditional scheduling and controlling and
its associated problems
- To understand the fallacy of the “usual”
estimation process
- To fully recognize the effect of Human behavior on
Project objectives
- To recognize the theory of constraints as applied to
projects
- To understand the revolutionary concept of integration
of projects and professionals viz., the Critical Chain
approach
What You Will Learn
- Integration of Critical Chain approach with A Guide To The Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Project Management Institute, Inc., 2008.
- Reduce project management time by over 25%
- Understand and use practically the buffer management
- Use resource constrained critical path and manage
resources more effectively
- How to establish and than manage a critical chain
project plan
- Differentiate between “Just Jargons” that do not give
you results and actual practices that give you results
- Implementing the change successfully
Content
Basic Outline of the Course:
Critical Chain And TOC approach to
Project Management
The paradigm shift
Relationships to the PMBOK® Guide
The Problem of a single project
environment
Characteristics of projects
Protecting against uncertainty
Task durations and efforts profile
Interruptions – Another element of uncertainty
Milestones and due dates
Parkinson’s laws
Effect on duration estimate
Planning of projects as of today
Solution in a single project
environment
Productivity definitions
Five focusing steps
The various layers of resistance
The project manager’s conflict
The solution starting point
First pass schedule
The process of ongoing improvement
Rules: TOC Paradigm simulation
What should we expect?
Buffer management introduction
Execution manager and resource manager
A Critical Chain Schedule
The relationship to critical chain to critical path |
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Critical Path in A Multi-Project
Environment
Characteristics of the multi-project environment
Critical chain compliant software
The scientific approach
The difficulty of managing the multi-project environment
A typical solution for conflicts
Traditional behavior in multi-project environment
Multi-tasking
Setting priorities
Setting priorities – The Critical Path way
The multi-project simulation
Traditional Environment Results
Comparison of cash flows
Throughput environment multi-project solutions
How to cause the change
The six step to a successful implementation of critical chain
Innovation environment model
Implementing critical chain example – Single project plans
Implementing critical chain example – Multi Project Plans
Summary – Multi-project environment
Recap & Closing |
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