CCPM Implementation
When implemented, Critical Chain
Project Management (CCPM) routinely
doubles project Throughput while
reducing stress on the project team. The
technical aspects of CCPM are logical
and simple.
Management behavior changes demanded by CCPM, although simple, are not simplistic. And they are not easy. It is like going on a diet and staying at your goal weight. You know exactly what you have to do. It's simple. Yet how many succeed? There is nothing wrong with the theory. Eat less, exercise more, lose weight. The cause and effect is proven. The benefits of losing weight are understood and proven: look better, feel better, live longer. Overweight people really want to lose weight. They are intrinsically motivated. How many succeed on their own?
Your organization is perfectly designed to produce exactly the results it delivers today. This design includes all sorts of formal and informal feedback that keeps the system stable. Is it reasonable to think you can change the organization's behavior to double the Throughput without serious management leadership and a well thought out and executed plan?
We always succeed when we facilitate the change to CCPM with our proven process and active management leadership. Call us!
The following briefly describes some of our training, which we will tailor to your organization.
1. Critical Chain Implementation:
Who should attend: People intending to implement Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) on their project or in their company. Includes the two day introduction workshop, development of a Critical Chain project plan for at least one project, development of the CCPM implementation plan, and follow-up to ensure success.
Group size: Five to Fifteen
Duration: Five days workshop plus two days follow up
Cost: Call!
2. Two Day Introduction to Critical Chain Project Management
Who should attend?
- Project managers
- Resource managers
- Project team members
- Company managers
- Engineering managers
- Product development leads
- Construction managers
- Design managers
Group size: Five to Twenty five
Duration: Two day workshop.
Objective: Improve the way you plan and manage projects to meet customers' needs on time and cost, and understand the tools that can resolve your implementation problems.
What to change?
- Logic and proof for the Core Problem
- How we add extra safety time to projects.
- How we waste the safety time.
- Simulation of Current Reality.
- Project Manager's Current Reality.
What to change to?
- Improved Project decisions.
- Project Management Future Reality.
- Changes to existing methods.
- Simulations of Future Reality.
- How to construct a Critical Chain schedule.
- Buffer Management.
- How to handle multiple projects.
- How to measure and control progress on a Critical Chain project
- How to cause the change?
- The five layers of resistance to implementing change.
3. Four Hour Overview
Who should attend: People who want to understand what CCPM is, and how it might benefit their company or projects. Used most often as a part of implementation to educate those outside the core application team.
Group size: Twenty or more
Duration: Three hour overview presentation.
Cost: $ 395 per person plus instructor expenses; minimum of 12 people.