About this Presentation
The understanding of what constitutes the critical chain method has developed over the 25+ years since Goldratt’s Critical Chain book was published. With various branches and different interpretations, is there benefit of updating our definition of what 'standard CC' is?
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.
Critical Chain Project Management is a combination of techniques and philosophy that focuses on flow and collaboration within a project team.
Time, cost, and quality are all crucial factors in project management, and CCPM can help manage all three effectively.
The fever chart is a useful tool for key measures in CCPM, providing useful, focused information.
Instructor(s)
Ian Heptinstall
Ian is an Associate Professor of Project Management at the University of Birmingham (UK).
He is a late-career academic, joining the University after 35 years of working in project management, procurement and management consulting.
His project & procurement experience primarily in the capex, construction & engineering fields.
He has been a regular TOCICO Conference attendee since 2011, and in 2020 he helped set up the annual Critical Chain virtual conference, to share CC real world experience with project management practitioners who have little or no knowledge of TOC or critical chain.
In 2016 he published “The Executive Guide to Breakthrough Project Management” about overcoming obstacles to using critical chain on capital/construction projects, in collaboration with Robert Bolton, and he supported Rene Nibbelke in producing the APM’s “Senior Managers’ and Project Managers’ Guide to Critical Chain” (2024