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About this Presentation
This presentation will introduce the breakthrough project management approach, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) which global organizations are utilizing to accelerate the speed of projects, uncover hidden capacity to increase the number of completed projects, significantly improve the on-time completion of projects, and to improve team member motivation, engagement, and harmony.
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.
Critical Chain starts with a simple but high-impact shift: stop rewarding busyness and start protecting focus, because too much multitasking slows projects, lowers quality, and delays completion for everyone.
Better project speed does not come from safer estimates everywhere. This session shows why 50/50 estimates, when paired with the right system protections, can outperform heavily padded task durations.
Hidden safety inside every task creates familiar project behaviors like Student Syndrome and Parkinson’s Law. The real breakthrough is pulling that protection out of individual tasks and managing it where it matters most.
The session ties it all together with buffer management: use shared project buffers, visible buffer consumption, and focused management attention to improve trust, priorities, and continuous improvement.
Instructor(s)
Joe Cooper
Joe Cooper is an Enterprise Business Architect at DMI operating at the intersection of business and technology; leveraging innovation, transformation, continuous improvement, and team-engagement to accelerate systemic outcomes for organizations. Joe has been a practitioner, implementer, and lifelong learner of the Theory of Constraints principles for 20 years, specializing in Critical Chain for project, program, and portfolio management. He is a regular speaker at global TOCICO and Project Management Institute (PMI) events and is TOCICO certified (2010) and PMI-PMP certified (2003). Other certifications include SAFe Agile Product Manager, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Scrum.org PSPO and PSM. Joe earned degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Professional Pilot Technology from Indiana State University. He is an FAA certified commercial pilot (multi-engine, instrument, seaplane) and an aviation enthusiast. Joe enjoys spending time with his lovely wife and three wonderful (young adult) children. He also enjoys cultures and languages, health/fitness/nutrition, deep sea fishing, and studying Emotional Intelligence.