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About this Presentation
Introduction to scheduling several projects in a multi-project environment. Understand how to prioritize, stagger, and execute across a portfolio to achieve more project flow.
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 reveals why traditional multi-project scheduling fails: treating all projects as independent islands leads to multitasking, overload, and delays, even when teams are busy.
It shows how staggering project starts and freezing overloads lets organizations reduce bad multitasking, optimize resource allocation, and deliver more projects faster, better, and at lower cost.
The presentation illustrates how a virtual drum and buffer-based priorities create a shared execution rhythm across all projects, enabling transparency and trust instead of chaos and firefighting.
It emphasizes how buffer management and a global portfolio view help leaders detect risk early, set true priorities, and intervene with focus rather than reacting to pressure.
Instructor(s)
Christoph Lenhartz
Christoph Lenhartz, MBA, Jonah, TOCICO-certified, Certified Consultant (bdvb), DDPP, DDLP, DDOP, SCOR-P, CSCP, CTSC, CSCA is a TOCICO board ember and past and current Chair of TOCICO. In over 20 years he has acquired a wide-ranging, international experience in industry, as a successful entrepreneur and also a leader of management consulting teams in high complexity TOC implementations. He has lead strategic, business transformation, supply chain management and IT projects and his expertise also includes post-merger integration of supply chain operations for major international groups. One of the leading experts in Europe in TOC and Demand Driven methodologies he is the General Manager of Catena Strategies, a TOC-based consultancy in management and operational excellence. He also serves as Master Instructor for the Demand Driven Institute. He has published articles on TOC, Demand Driven and other management topics in journals such as “Quality Progress” or the prestigious French "Techniques de l'ingénieur" and has translated and written books on TOC and management topics in German. He is an appreciated speaker and teacher of TOC and related topics. Christoph holds an MBA from Clemson University (USA), he graduated from the University Essen (Germany) as a Diplom-Kaufmann and has pursued post-graduate studies at Washington State University (USA).