About this Presentation
The presentation starts with an introduction and session overview which describes the outcomes and certification focus. Next, the three components of the exam are describes as project management fundamentals; TOC thinking processes and critical chain; and CCPM, the logistical applications and holistic view. The grading/evaluation criteria are then provided and any viewer questions are addressed. Base-level competency related to critical chain project management that is evaluated in the fundamentals exam (therefore assumed to be in place) includes: 1. The ability to identify the critical chain and its length in a single project network (given padded activity times and (some) resource contention) 2. Recognition that activity times should be cut by 50% in the beginning 3. Buffers should be 50% of reduced durations. 4. Correctly removes resource contention to minimize total project lead time 5. Knows appropriate rules of scheduling (pushing all tasks as late in time as possible and working backwards) 6. The ability to correctly size and position the required buffers. Given this baseline understanding of the fundamentals exam, the three parts of this exam extend to build on this foundation by providing a detailed outline of the points covered under each exam part. Sample questions and examples are provided.
What Will You Learn
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Instructor(s)
Dr. Janice Cerveny
Janice F. Cerveny, Ph.D. is on the faculty of the College of Business, Department of Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. She has worked primarily in the blood banking and health care industries but now
consults and trains many diverse organizations in the Theory of Constraints (TOC).
She is an Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute “Jonah”, “Jonahs Jonah” and is certified in the functional-specific applications of the Theory of Constraints for Production (Drum-Buffer-Rope, DBR), Distribution/Supply Chain Management (Continuous Replenishment, CR), Project Management (Critical Chain, CCPM) and interpersonal management skills applications.
(Management Skills Workshop, MSW).
She has had a number of for profit and not-for-profit clients in the South Florida area include NCCI (National Council on Compensation Insurers), Siemens Telecom Networks, Sensormatic Electronics Corporation , Office Depot – Corporate Audit Department, the North Broward Hospital District, and Philips Electronics. She has most recently completed a contract with the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C. for clinical practice managers resulting in her editing a book for Ambulatory Care Clinic
Managers. Her most recent article (with Dr. Stuart Galup) “Critical Chain Project Management: Holistic Solution Aligning Quantitative and Qualitative Project Management Methods” appeared in Production and
Inventory Management, Vol. 43, Numbers 3 &4, (2002, pp. 55-64).
She is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO). She is recognized by the latter as internationally certified to facilitate implementations of TOC applications.