Critical Chain Project Management CCPM Certification course 2023 is a method of planning and managing projects that specializes on handling uncertainties. It was developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
It differs from more traditional methods that derive from critical path and PERT algorithms, which emphasize task order and rigid scheduling. A critical chain project network strives to keep resources levelled, and requires that they be flexible.
Customers who practice CCPM typically report the following performance improvements :
In addition to the business benefits, Critical Chain Project Management also delivers these cultural benefits:
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Recognizing its potential Proventures have adopted this vertical since 2008 and later joined hands with Prochain https://www.prochain.com/ as a preferred tool for managing projects with this revolutionary concept.
As a project management professional, it would be good for you to understand the concept, challenges, solutions being offered through this methodology and the tools to implement before taking a decision to invest. We will understand these elements in a nutshell in the following narrative.
Every organization and system can be seen as a Chain with its business processes as links. In order to optimize the system, we need to identify the bottleneck processes and improve their efficiency. It is an iterative process to improve the overall system throughput and it is typically taken up through a Continuous Improvement Journey.
This continuous improvement approach / journey involves the following steps as shown in the figure.
When it comes to projects and project management, if we consider schedule as the inflexible constraint and our primary objective towards project success, the weakest link is its critical path.
We normally say project management is an art and science.
The people dimension of Project Management involves interpersonal, leadership skills, stakeholder engagement and communication.
The science of project management involves creating work breakdown structure, schedules, estimating resources and cost, assessing and managing risks etc. Effective project management involves integrating managing both these dimensions.
Most of the activities that we perform in projects involves elements of uncertainties at each activity level. Hence, we always come across the following three scenarios :
Best case, Normal case and Worst case.
In a project where deadline drives the schedule, normal tendency for the people is to hold the position “ don’t be late”. In order to protect such commitments, the team members tend to give estimates between median and worst case. This is how buffers get built into estimating process at every level of estimation along the project and organization hierarchy. When these estimates are rolled up to the project level, it amounts to anywhere between 50% and 80%. Also, they seldom consider the best case scenario.
What happens when a project is approved with a built in buffer of 50%?
We observe the following three behavioural patterns being demonstrated by the people involved in the project:
The students’ syndrome: First fight for safety time. When you get it, you have enough time, so why hurry? We get down to the business at the last minute. The picture below shows 60% of the work completed within the last one week.
Multitasking: In most of the organizations and in most of the projects multi-tasking is a normal phenomena that impacts the overall time to market strategy. We don’t realize that by multitasking, every project gets delayed. In addition to this, while switching tasks between projects there is always a ‘set-up’ and ‘set-down’ time that gets wasted.
Now let us look at the solution to this complex problem….
This method of monitoring helps to keep the focus on the project completion as per defined objectives rather than activity completion which is called as local optima.
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