Lessons Learned
Every year Realization hosts Project Flow, our annual conference where clients can gather to share best practices from the past year’s implementations. We collect this body of knowledge into our ‘Lessons Learned’ series. Below you can find the summarized experience of our industry-leading client base in effecting Realization’s integrated solution. This rich knowledge bank informs every project we undertake, and helps us deliver award-winning results.
Project Flow 2010 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: Project Flow 2010 speakers affirmed that a step jump in performance can be achieved by reengineering project execution. They also discussed their strategies for getting the most out of an implementation. Three points emerged as key to maximizing the impact of Critical Chain on the bottom line, on the speed of implementation and on the sustainment of results.
Project Flow 2009 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: Uncertainties are intrinsic to projects. Even the most carefully prepared plans become obsolete within days. Task priorities become unclear (which tasks to do first) and unsynchronized (every department, every person starts prioritizing their tasks differently). Consequently a project is mostly waiting for one thing or another, leading to significant loss of time and capacity.
Project Flow 2008 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: Managers have described again and again the significant benefits of Critical Chain Execution Management. They have stressed how you can get results within a matter of weeks, and why it is important to forge the new system while the iron is hot.
Project Flow 2007 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: We are grateful to our customers for helping us pioneer Execution Management and also for openly sharing their successes and challenges in implementing it. Based on wide ranging case studies over the last 10 years, we have compiled a list of traps to avoid when implementing Critical Chain, as well as guidelines for getting extraordinary results.
Project Flow 2006 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: As in the previous years’ conferences, it was exciting to hear so many speakers in Project Flow 2006 describe the remarkable improvements they have made in project performance. All the speakers took time to describe their project operations, and how they have applied the three rules of critical chain. It is gratifying that such a wide range of organizations can benefit from execution management.
Project Flow 2005 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: Practitioners at both the 2004 and 2005 conferences have shown that significant gains are possible with Critical Chain. They also stressed that implementation must be swift. Once you decide to implement Critical Chain, it is important to forge the new system while the iron is hot. If you don’t start getting results in two to three months, the implementation will become difficult.
Project Flow 2004 Lessons Learned
Excerpt: The conference was a timely reinforcement that implementing multi-project critical chain takes more than software and education; it requires changing how project organizations are managed. Following are the core elements that distinguished successful implementations, which we thought you will find helpful...