About this Presentation
In some portfolio and pipeline environments rigid application of text-book CCPM can be bureaucratic and unnecessary... and doomed to fail. This was Jan's early experience in trying to use CCPM. He studied what the fundamental drivers were of critical chain and project and portfolio performance in general, and developed his unique approach to project pipeline management, which he believes can be implemented significantly faster than full-blown, multi-project CCPM. In this presentation he will share some of the fundamental insights he has learned, and discuss a pilot implementation where it delivered significant and rapid improvements in portfolio performance.
What Will You Learn
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Critical Chain project management has been successful in boosting productivity by 20 to 50 percent on average.
The speaker has developed a method to implement Critical Chain 20 times faster based on a new understanding of how project organizations work.
The speaker recommends creating a continuous uninterrupted flow through the bottlenecks of your organization and using the project pipeline manager to manage the project pipeline.
Instructor(s)
Jan van Egmond
Jan van Egmond is the Project Management Hacker at Empower Your Projects.
Since 2012 Jan is an independent researcher with the goal to bring the best project management strategies within reach of ordinary project organizations to enable them to match the best project management success stories themselves. His research has resulted in new insights about project organizations (Core of Manifestation), critical factors for project success (4 Basic Needs), human neurologic processes affecting project organization (State of Mind Model), the dynamics of flow in multi-project organizations (Project Pipelines and Interaction of Pipelines) and new frameworks and tools for project organizations (New Project Management Guide, and the Self Learning/Auto Correcting Project Pipeline Manager). In 2019 – 2020 the first pilot case study with a small-medium enterprise, resulted in improving productivity 36% - 49% within 2 months, after a ultra light and short implementation phase (less than 30 minutes per projects, 8 days throughput time). Under the brand Empower Your Projects, Jan van Egvmond offers a Do It Your Self Program for small-medium enterprises for setting up and managing project pipelines and matching the best project management success stories.
Ms Alka Wadhwa
Alka Wadhwa is an experienced consultant and process improvement expert with over 24 years of expertise in the Theory of Constraints (TOC), Lean Six Sigma, and organizational performance optimization. She has successfully led projects in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, driving significant improvements such as a 67% boost in hospital operations and a 140% increase in outpatient visits.
Previously, Alka Wadhwa spent 17+ years at GE Global Research Center, where she led initiatives to enhance various GE businesses through advanced technologies, process redesign, and system optimization. Founder of Better Solutions Consulting, LLC, she specializes in using TOC, Six Sigma, and data analytics to streamline operations and build high-performance teams.
Her work has earned her multiple accolades, including the Empire State Award of Excellence in healthcare.
Dr Gary Wadhwa
Dr. Gary Wadhwa is a Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon with extensive experience in the field. He completed his Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery training at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, and has served as an Attending at prestigious institutions like St. Peters Hospitals, Ellis Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital in NY. With a career spanning over two decades, he was the former CEO and President of a group specialty practice in NY from 1994 to 2015. Dr. Wadhwa holds an MBA from UT at Knoxville, TN, and has undergone additional training in System Dynamics at MIT, Health System Management at Harvard Business School, and Entrepreneurship and healthcare innovations at Columbia Business School. Committed to expanding access to Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery care, he is currently engaged in a meaningful project to provide healthcare services to underserved populations in inner city and rural areas through non-profit Community Health Centers.