Critical Chain 2023

A New Use for Fever Charts to Protect and Speed Up Projects

Presentation on using a fever chart as a starting point for answering practical questions.

Projects and Operations, Value and Results

Explore a comprehensive framework for managing the flow of project and non-project activities to support project management, improve financial results, and explore TOC solutions like WIP limiting and buffer management.

The Unique Contribution of Theory of Constraints to Project Management

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Dr. Barnard will use a Project Example to show how traditional planning ignores system constraints and the negative effects of assuming enough resources. He will also demonstrate resolving resource contention by considering capacity constraints.

Flow at Work on the shop floor at Bruns

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Bruns, since 1963, develops and produces top-notch exhibitions worldwide. Bo Burgmans (Bruns) and Gijs Andrea (Better Results Group) will present on implementing Critical Chain and Flow principles.

Project Management with a Twist: Insights from the Custom Manufacturing World

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Manufacturing and project-based organizations are usually different, but projects often resemble job shops or made-to-order environments. Both projects and these environments produce unique items and must satisfy specific requirements.

Critical Chain Deployment in New Product Development

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Case study on the project management transformation within the French entity of Jeld Wen, a global door solution manufacturer.

Implementing CCPM with Big Corporate Clients Without Using Software

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This presentation discusses the challenges of implementing Critical Chain Project Management without introducing new software, despite a proven track record of successful implementation with good CCPM software support.

Financial Project Structure Based on Critical Chain Project Management

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The financial project structure should generate cash flows to cover expenses. Verify it improves system performance using the 5 focusing steps. Critical Chain Project Management software helps track costs and delays.

S-CCPM to Elevate Management Attention

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Case study on Dr. Holt’s S-CCPM solution (10+ years), showing consistent results: more projects, faster deliveries, increased capacity, and agile system evolution. Shares insights on 4 flow principles.

An Offer So Good They Refused To Take It: A Case Study of Innovative Contract Design for Critical Chain Project Management in Building a Greenfield Manufacturing Plant in Poland

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A worldwide manufacturing company is building a new greenfield plant in Poland. They abandoned a traditional contract approach for a novel one, facilitating the implementation of Critical Chain Project Management.

Accelerating New Product Development in the Aerospace & Defense markets with Critical Chain

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Circor A&D adopted Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) to address project delays, capacity limits, and silo issues. Pilot success led to a company-wide rollout, enhancing efficiency, alignment, communication, and visibility.

Project Management: Understanding the Root Causes of Project Problems Using Hands-on Exercises

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Learn why projects are late and over-budget. Discover how variability, precedence, and bad multi-tasking contribute to project failure, and use simple, hands-on games to implement steps that put your projects back on track.

Engineering To Order Boosted by the Critical Chain Approach

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ETO companies design customized products, which causes long lead times. Using the Critical Chain method can reduce lead times, boost productivity, improve visibility via the Fever Chart, and ensure promised deadlines are honored.

Journey Starts With Chaos

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Many organizations fail to deliver projects on time and budget. This presentation offers a maturity model based on the Critical Chain methodology to guide multi-project environments toward perfect performance.

CCPM at BAE Systems: A Process Of Ongoing Improvement

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BAE Systems' Critical Chain Project Management update, influenced by previous Critical Chain and the 20th Annual TOCICO Conferences, is impacting other Project-Management businesses.

What Projects Require an Effective Planning and Execution Methodology? And How Other Projects Should be Planned?

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Does every sequence of tasks aimed at a specific objective qualify as a project?

CCPM in R&D projects – Our Way Since 2015

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Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure in Maulburg is a leading producer of instruments, sensors, components, and services for level measurement, level limit detection, pressure and differential pressure measurement, and inventory management solutions.

More Projects in Less Time: Clearing Up Misunderstandings Around Critical Chain

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This presentation aims to resolve misunderstandings surrounding Critical Chain project and multi-project management that have been encountered over the past two decades.

CCPM is a Strategic Application and not Just Tactical Project Execution

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Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) transforms project chaos into stability for growth. This presentation overviews CCPM's capability to apply a strategic approach to project management for market capture and reliable delivery.

The Magic of Critical Chain the Science Behind Goldratt’s Innovative Thinking

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TOC practitioners know Critical Chain mechanics, but they struggle to get others to adopt it. This is due to the lack of clarity surrounding the scientific basis of the methodology, which makes it hard to convince people of its value.

The Rules of Flow in Action

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A-dato's LYNX software, inspired by Eliyahu Goldratt, combines CCPM, TOC, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Essential Flow to improve project portfolio flow. The presentation will discuss A-dato's practice of "Goldratt’s Rules of Flow."

Piloting Critical Chain in a Pharmaceutical Company

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Simon Wallis, Business Manager at GSK Barnard Castle, applied the Critical Chain method, discovered during his MSc, to the pharmaceutical industry. He believed it could help deliver challenging projects faster and more reliably.

Enigma of TOC and WIP

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TOC states excess WIP is bad, correlating with lead time (Little's Law). WIP is Work in Process/Progress. The focus is on planning, scheduling, and executing work orders/projects in the shortest time with high probability of on-time delivery.

Back to Basics – A Project Management Case Study

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Case study on a large defense client who achieved fantastic results by returning to Critical Chain basics for project planning and scheduling, overcoming challenges, and the results they are now seeing.

Using Critical Chain to Meet the Challenge of Achieving a Large Product’s Prime Support Objective: A Personal Transformation

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A product support strategy for the VH-92 aircraft fleet identifies workload demand and converts it into resource requirements. Critical Chain project management ensures the availability of personnel, materials, tools, and facilities.