About this Presentation
This presentation will share GSK’s,a global pharmaceutical company,experience of piloting CC on new product introduction projects on their Barnard Castle site in NE England. Starting with a pilot on two projects starting in March 2022, GSK added another project in late 2022, and in early 2023 made critical chain the default scheduling and execution method at that location. TOC practitioners may not be surprised that critical chain improved the flow of project work. Nor was the presenter. What was a pleasant surprise was how the formal technique reinforced and helped to drive a range of behavioural changes that helped improve not only the performance of the project team, but also the confidence of the senior project stakeholders in the ability of the project team.
What Will You Learn
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Instructor(s)
Simon Wallis
In his early career, Simon spent 8 years in microbiology laboratories in the brewing industry, before moving into Quality Assurance in the Pharmaceutical industry at GSK in 1999. He has worked in a number of roles at GSK, including laboratory management and business Improvement, before moving into project management where he has worked for the last 13 years in both New Product introduction, Site Strategy, and PMO functions. These roles involve liaising closely with multiple teams both on and off-site and leading a team of project managers and planners to project manage the technology transfer and commercialization of new medicines. Simon has an MSc in Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Manchester and is currently in the final year of an MSc in Industrial Project Management at the University of Birmingham – where he first came across critical chain. Simon lives in the northeast of England. He enjoys hill walking and is a daily gym goer and he and his wife go sea swimming every weekend throughout the year (which can be a bit of a challenge in January in the UK’s North Sea!).