About this Presentation
This presentation deals with the problems associated with time and attention constraints. A multitasking exercise is discussed. Elements of critical chain project management are provided to address the problem: Set clear project / task priorities; delay the release of new projects / tasks; kill projects; significantly reduce “bad multitasking”; remove significant safety time from tasks in the project plan; place part of the safety removed in the project and feeding buffers; “buffer management”; freeze projects, tasks, legs; and full kit. Next, the use of the five focusing steps is described. Lisa describes her Illuminutopia organization and her personal struggle with achieving her professional goals and maintaining her health and the time dilemma this creates. She discusses how Goldratt resolved this time dilemma as discussed in The Choice.
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.
Time is usually the constraint for individuals, while management attention is often the constraint for organizations.
Bad multitasking can lead to longer project completion times and lower quality work.
Setting clear project priorities, reducing bad multitasking, and adapting plans as reality changes can improve productivity.
Instructor(s)
Dr. Lisa Anne Ferguson
Dr. Lisa Ferguson's goal in life is to illuminate the way to utopia for individuals, organizations, and the rest of society. Our strategies and tactics are based on using the Theory of Constraints (TOC), combined with other best practices to dramatically improve strategic planning and execution, retail, education, healthcare and the health/happiness/success of individuals with a holistic approach. TOC was founded by Dr. Eli Goldratt to achieve his goal in life of teaching the world to think. For a decade, Dr. Ferguson was a full-time professor of operations management before resigning to teach for The Goldratt Group full-time training consultants (both TOC experts and Supply Chain Logistics implementers). Next, Dr. Lisa Ferguson spent a year (2007 – 2008) working as the apprentice to best-selling author and business guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt as he trained her to become an even more successful writer and speaker, while further developing her TOC expertise. Her service on the TOCICO Board of Directors in an elected, unpaid position is from 2008 – 2011 and 2020 – 2021. Professor Ferguson is the author of the chapter on Strategy and Tactic Trees in The Theory of Constraints Handbook. Dr. Ferguson began teaching online classes for Illuminutopia in 2010. She is a published author (as well as an editor) and consultant with experience guiding Fortune 100 companies down through small businesses.