About this Presentation
Following from the previous Critical Chain conferences and the 20th Annual TOCICO Conference in Orlando Florida, the Critical Chain Project Management at BAE Systems continues to strengthen in depth and breadth. This presentation provides an update to the results gained thus far and hopes to influence other Project-Management based businesses to learn from BAE’s experience, both good and bad.
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.
BAE Systems applies a professional change management model diligently for each implementation, leading to reliable, repeatable, successful outcomes.
The company employs consultants as coaches, not to do the work for the team, but to train and coach them, creating more capable people.
Making change non-mandatory and giving people the choice to change has led to more successful and accepted change.
Instructor(s)
Rene Nibbelke
René Nibbelke is a BAE Systems Project Management Fellow, currently on secondment to the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence as a Senior Adviser to support their transformation programs. He became an advocate for Critical Chain after trialing it on a number of Defence projects in the UK and USA. His approach has been to collaborate with world leading experts and apply Business Change Management best practices to ensure successful adoption and enduring sustainment of Critical Chain applications. He is an Association for Project Management Chartered Project Management Professional, a Chartered Quality Institute Chartered Quality Professional, and holds postgraduate qualifications from University College London, University of Manachester Business School, and Henley Business School. René is a qualified TOCICO Critical Chain Practitioner and recipient of the TOCICO 2022 TOC Champion Award, the 2023 TOCICO Outstanding TOC Implementation Award and the 2023 Project Control Expo Innovation Award. He is the lead author of the 2024 Association for Project Management Senior Managers’ and Project Managers’ Guide to Critical Chain written in collaboration with, and endorsed by, TOCICO.
Simon White
Simon White works for BAE Systems Australia as Manager of Project Controls. His current role is to ‘Deliver Reliable and Repeatable Project Control’ across a multi-billion dollar portfolio of +220 defense projects, spread over Air, Maritime and Software/Cyber domains. He was part of a successful application of CCPM to an Aerospace MRO environment, and this has been shared widely within the BAE business globally, as well as via TOCICO Global Conference, CCPM Global Conference, Project Control Expo UK and Aus, and more.