Critical Chain Project Management

Project management [essentially CCPM] Critical Chain article by Ian Heptinstall published in September 2019 in The Sunday Telegraph UK.

To read article follow this link: https://issuu.com/mediaplanetuk/docs/project_management/12

Building new commercial aircraft is a must to keep people moving. But Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer had an even bolder goal: design, develop and deliver a second-generation jet with a massive supply chain that would give the company a competitive advantage. On top of that, it vowed to complete the project faster than any other aerospace firm. To complete the first model from its E2 series, the organization established a formal program management process and built a skilled team of project managers, 80 percent of whom had PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. During planning, teams reviewed lessons learned from previous private and military aircraft projects, replicating tested scheduling strategies, supply chain management and early-warning mechanisms.

Aurora-CCPM is the world's most powerful enterprise-level multi-project critical chain project management software available. In addition, Aurora-CCPM is easy to use and is designed to interface with current project management and enterprise applications. Aurora-CCPM is designed to work seamlessly in your environment it can be run from the cloud, hosted on an internal cloud, and run as a standalone application. Aurora-CCPM is a combination of Aurora™, Stottler Henke’s intelligent planning and scheduling system, and the added power and flexibility of Multi-Project Critical Chain Project Management.

Join us for this webinar and visualize how you can plan and track critical chain projects in relation to resource constraints. What will this webinar focus on? Identifying the critical chain: resource links, buffer calculation, buffer tracking, and syncing of multiple projects with capacity buffers The capability to schedule from the Finish Constraint backwards Resolving resource contention Critical Chain reports: reviewing buffer status and identifying which tasks remain on the chains

Executing projects in a CCPM environment takes more than adding a new tool set. It’s a cultural change that requires organizational buy-in, new disciplines, and improved governance mechanisms. But the benefits far outweigh the investment. Companies that embrace CCPM report an average cycle-time reduction of 30-50%. As importantly, they finish 30-50% more projects and their projects finish on time with greater than 90% reliability.

Exepron [CCPM software provider] Annual Workshop, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. September 22 - 24, 2019. A Workshop for Forward-Thinking Project Leadership. Exepron, the Predictive, AI driven Software Solution. The first day offers an overview of Exepron's new, modernized User Interface (UI) plus the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Analytics in BIDSS. What better way to get up to speed on the new features and capabilities of our new User Interface (UI), AI capabilities, Advanced Scheduling (up to 40,000 tasks), Enterprise Multi-Account predictive Resource Planning & Management capability, Exepron Mobile, REST API connectivity, to name a few. Day two and three will highlight the Exepron community and feature Keynote Speakers as well as Exepron case studies. Following up with round table Q&A discussions, you will have the opportunity to network with experienced Exepron implementers and industry experts.

ANÁLISIS DEL MÉTODO DE LA CADENA CRÍTICA VS MÉTODO DEL CAMINO CRÍTICO. VIABILIDAD Y CONCEPTOS

Mª Carmen González-Cruz

Sabina Asensio-Cuesta

Jose Antonio Diego-Más

Jorge Alcaide-Marzal

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, España

Boosting your project portfolio performance to levels you never even dreamed of. Free TOCICO Webinar by Philip Marris: Project Management the TOC Way on Wednesday 15th of January 2020. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is one of the most powerful “solutions” of the Theory Of Constraints (TOC). It allows you to finish nearly all your projects on time. It reduces by >40% the duration of projects. It provides excellent visibility and creates a much better working environment. Etc. In this TOCICO webinar, Philip Marris, who has over 30 years of TOC implementation experience, will describe both the traditional elements of the CCPM approach (how to plan, how to execute and how to improve further) and his own personal recommendations such as using TOC’s 5 focusing steps within a CCPM portfolio implementation. This 2 hour webinar will combine a presentation of the concepts and many case studies. It will conclude with a questions and answers session hosted by Eli Schragenheim.

Exceptional free access to a TOCICO video. Usually these videos are for TOCICO members only (Theory Of Constraints International Certification Organization). This was a keynote presentation at the July 2019 Chicago annual congress. In this presentation Edy Aparecido remarkable success story of Embraer’s development of an airplane (the E190-E2) using Critical Chain. This project went on to win the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) “Best Project of the Year 2019.

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Conference 47 slides presentation + Appendices downloadable.

Most projects managed traditionally with the Critical Path Method or the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) suffer from time and budget overruns and often original specifications have to be abandoned. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) [....]

• The Critical Chain is defined by the longest chain of dependencies between tasks, taking into account critical resources conflicts. But the “Critical Chain Way” is much more than this limited definition.
• CCPM can be used both for individual projects large or small or portfolios of projects.
• A different technique for estimating task durations [....]
• The project is protected from uncertainty and problems thanks to a project buffer (safeties are removed from individual tasks). [....]

 [....] Over 500 companies have implemented it including: Mazda, Siemens, Embraer, Procter & Gamble, Louis Vuitton, Safran, Boeing, Lilly and the United States armed forces. Critical Chain Project Management allows projects to be finished on time, within budget and without compromises on original specifications. [....] 

The Shutdowns Turnarounds conference, organized by The STMO Forum will take place from 28th November to 29th November 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [...]

Turnaround Project Management – A Macro View. Case study based presentation following turnaround activities at the MOL Group’s refining and petrochemicals operations. Challenges in relation to contractor acquisition and making sure that your scheduling is realistic. Outline of ‘critical chain methodology’ Peter Mezzey Turnaround Senior Expert, MOL Group.

PM for Neogrid South America, North America and Europe.
Neogrid a Global SupplyChain ERP Interrogator with over 12 billion daily replenishment transaction applies a Hybrid solution for Agile and CCPM Professional Service and Software Development projects. Mayara, describes establishing the PMO for Neogrid. Were Agile three week sprints - managed by Exepron establishes priorities and oversight for over 600 projects on the Exepron dashboards.
JIRA is the development tool [...] Exepron providing the missing oversight and true project progress information required for prioritization and course correction.  [...]
• Due Date are now reliably predictable.
• Cutting scope to meet Due Dates is no longer practiced.
• Early Waring and buffer status provides good indicators of performance. ...

Last year ABS Jets implemented ‘The Critical Chain Project Management’ (CCPM) into its working environment, which it reports has shown significant results. The goal of CCPM project is to perform a scheduled inspection in a shorter time, to manage the workload involved, and to reduce the costs to the aircraft owners or operators – all while increasing profit margins for the charter providers. “By implementing the CCPM,” Albouy reflects, “we have been able to significantly shorten aircraft downtime during maintenance, which is appreciated by both charter operators and aircraft owners.