About this Presentation
Part of the TOC Fundamentals Track, this session introduces Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) — the TOC approach to delivering projects faster and with greater reliability. Learn how to identify and protect the project’s critical chain, manage buffers effectively, and improve on-time performance while reducing stress and firefighting.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
The session explains why most projects miss due dates even when people work hard, revealing how task estimates, dependencies, and integration points compound uncertainty.
It shows how common human behaviors—such as multitasking, late starts, and protecting estimates—undermine project flow despite good intentions.
The presentation introduces the core CCPM concepts of precedence-based planning, aggregated buffers, and pull-based execution without overwhelming new learners.
It hints at how changing measurement and management behavior is as critical as changing the schedule itself for achieving reliable project delivery.
Instructor(s)
Daniel P. Walsh
Daniel Walsh is a sought-after lecturer, coach, strategic thinker and is a trusted advisor to many senior corporate executives, is currently a member of numerous corporate boards. In addition, he is co-founder of Exepron©, an advanced EPPM SaaS solution based on Critical Chain methodology. His current efforts are focusing on developing synchronous enterprise value chain solutions in multiple industry sectors. His research and development are centered on identifying the need to identify and leverage the strategic constraints of the enterprise, which is the key to increasing throughput. This culminated in the development of the Integrated Enterprise Scheduling®, (IES®) solution engine. Initial empirical results from deploying the IES® in a dozen large companies over a five-year period have been very promising. Many executives and thought leaders are convinced this may very well be the unified scheduling solution required for maximizing the profit of an enterprise-wide value chain. The IES approach was chronicled when he co-authored The TOC Handbook, the seminal Theory of Constraints reference textbook.