Advanced Critical Chain scheduling

• Key scheduling points and special cases

• Planning optimization

• Risk management

• Rescheduling during project execution

Communication and management of external actors

• Supplier scheduling and management

• Communication with the customer

• Shall you show a Critical Chain schedule or hide it?

Identification of the capacity constraints in projects

• Reminders of the Theory of Constraints and the notions of constraints

• Tips and pitfalls to avoid when finding the capacity constraint

• Examples of capacity constraints in projects

Portfolio management the Critical Chain way

• Limit the level of WIP: reasons and tips to reduce WIP

• Staggering of the project portfolio

• Use of the capacity constraint

• Combine the Critical Chain with the TOC 5 Focusing Steps  

Critical Chain complementarity with other approaches

• Critical Chain and Agile

• Critical Chain and Lean Engineering

• Why and how to combine the different approaches

CCPM software solution

• CCPM software comparison

• Parameters to take into account when choosing a software

• Implementation without software

Conclusion

• Managerial impact  

• Sustainability of the CCPM deployment