About this Presentation
At the edge of our capabilities, there exists a class of projects that are so large and complex that they challenge our concepts of planning and management. These projects require the coordination of a large number of interdependent agents working on an even greater number of interdependent tasks. Examples of this class of projects include large-scale initiatives for the creation of communications, transportation, and energy infrastructure, the development of defense systems and platforms, and the synthesis of multiple breakthrough technologies in research and development programs to solve important problems.
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.
Large projects often fail not because the work is impossible, but because scale, coordination, and competing priorities create hidden constraints that traditional management struggles to control.
This session likely explores how TOC can bring greater focus and flow to large-project environments where delays, overload, and dependency make execution especially difficult.
The appeal of this presentation is in seeing how TOC principles translate beyond small teams into the realities of bigger, more complex project systems.
For anyone dealing with complexity at scale, this session promises a useful perspective on how to improve execution without getting lost in the size of the project itself.
Instructor(s)
Rees Furbeck
Rees Furbeck is a Boeing Company Associate Technical Fellow specializing in the development of TOC applications to plan and manage largescale, complex development programs. His engineering experience includes airframe manufacturing, test and validation, experimental mechanics, engineering process development and quality improvement, data management architecture, organizational design, development process strategy, process modeling, and resource management. He has applied Theory of Constraints methods to the development of Boeing Commercial Aircraft. His current focus is on process modeling and planning model design as a member of the Lean+ Systems Integration Management Core Team. Rees earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a Masters of Engineering Management Degree from Washington State University.