Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Case Study (Edgware, Middlesex, UK: Goldratt Consulting Europe Ltd., 2003).

Before activating more project work, the resource managers should determine if any available resources could be used to speed up existing project tasks.

Learn and use the basics within a couple of hours Buffer projects holistically (at a project or subproject level, not at a task level) View resource demands globally (across all projects and portfolios) Use a common resource pool definition Use and save templates Work together on projects globally (in today’s delivery mechanisms, this implies cloud

The full kit is a list that specifies what is needed to begin a phase of a project. If all of the necessary items are not present and signed off by the right people, then the project is frozen.

For example, in one such company, we discovered that a third of the time reported was to projects that were no longer active.

Project due date. The date determined from synchronization and its associated what ifs.

The periodic review is conducted to answer four questions: Is the operations flow quick enough to match or beat our significant competitors? Is the operation efficiency good enough to be price competitive? Is the operations quality sufficient to be acceptable to most customers? Is the operation still scalable to grow to meet the coming year’s marke

Staggering of projects according to an organization’s project capacity Resource-based project networks that meet the organization’s goals Strategic buffers used to managing project Murphy or variation A single priority system in execution Fast, daily execution management A consistent project recovery process

Zurich, Switzerland, when a mechanical engineering department split a staff of 25 into a project pool of 22 with, on average, 3 engineers available to deal with questions from past work, emergencies, sales proposals, procurement questions, etc., the productivity noticeably increased.