Projects That Flow

More Projects in Less Time

Uwe Techt

• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9783838266992
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Index: Business

Projects can go over budget, exceed deadlines, or deliver restricted features and quality. This can result in economic damage for companies and their clients. The difficulties arise at source. Established metrics and management methods slow projects down by creating conflicts in operations and decision-making. A radically new approach is needed; one that features simple, constraint-oriented management, clear, robust priorities, company-wide rather than locally focused optimization, a focus on speed, on ProjectsFlow. Discover how you can: complete more projects with the same amount of resources, reliably deliver all projects to specs, significantly shorten project lead times.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Management summary: More projects in less time
• Part 1 Current Reality in Multi-project Organizations
• 3 Unreliability and long delivery times
• 4 Variability, Murphy’s Law, and harmful management mechanisms
• 5 WIP and resource allocation
• 6 Project planning and management
• 7 Operation and decision conflicts
• 8 Worksheets and templates
• 9 Summary and outlook
• Part 2 The Future in Multi-project Management
• 10 Core problem: Local optimization
• 11 Solution: Top priority!?
• 12 Managing WIP
• 13 Planning explicit safety buffers
• 14 Operational management with robust and synchronized tactical priorities
• 15 PROJECTSFLOW®—Summary
• 16 Worksheets and templates
• Part 3 Transformation
• 17 Introduction: Transformation
• 18 From a conventionally run to a high-performance organization
• 19 Phase 1: Reducing WIP
• 20 Phase 2: Good Preparation
• 21 Phase 3: Transforming Planning
• 22 Phase 4: Transforming management
• 23 Phase 5: Clients and suppliers
• 24 Phase 6: Increasing capacity
• 25 Transformation process—Summary
• 26 QuiStainable Change
• 27 Summary and Outlook
• 28 References
• 29 Index