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Agile CCPM: Improve organizational performance significantly by making small changes in managing projects
If you cannot answer all of the below immediately, there is a possibility that you can improve organizational performance significantly by making small changes in managing projects.
- How many projects are currently executed in your organization, including small ones?
- How many and what kind of projects can be initiated now within capacity constraints?
- Do you have any due-date sensitive projects which cannot meet their due dates? How many?
- What kind of recovery actions are typically taken for such projects now?
- What is the impact on the entire organization from the delay of these projects?
- Compared to three months ago, is the performance of the whole organization is getting better or worse? How much?
Overview of the book:
From fundamental knowledge of the Theory of Constraints, through a concrete practical method adapting Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), its application for managing projects, Agile CCPM is introduced, an enhanced set of techniques intended to significantly improve organizational performance in software development and other "complex" environments, by making small changes in managing projects.
Accolades:
"This book focuses on addressing one of the biggest problems in project management -- how we handle the different types of 'unknowns' while delivering on hard commitments. It does so by blending best practices from both Critical Chain and Agile methods, which are often presented as in conflict. Mr. Ujigawa is one of the few leading thinkers who has broken this conflict, showing how key techniques can be blended harmoniously in the pursuit of ever-faster and ever-more-reliable projects."
Mike Hannan
CEO, Fortezza Consulting
CEO, Project Management for Change
“Great book that shows the synergy between Agile and Critical Chain Project Management. It is very well written and integrates these two methodologies effectively.”
Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D.
CEO, SharpFocus, LLC
"Given that project environments are becoming increasingly complex, blighted by uncertainty and the pressure to reliably achieve more in shorter periods of time grows with every passing year this is indeed a valuable book. Readers are taken from supportive theory to successful methods, and then from these methods down to detailed instruction on how to use the tools provided to deal with these realities. I personally know that the learnings passed on by the author have been developed, tested and refined for a decade plus - the end product is a book in which the approaches presented are quite accessible to the reader. More important they are powerful and both easily and readily applicable."
Rodger B Morrison, P Eng, BaSc, Jonah
Partner, Omni Management Consulting Alliance
“For anyone who is looking for a coherent and proven framework through which to leverage the power of Goldratt’s Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and the flexibility of Agile practices, Agile CCPM is your answer. Koichi has done a masterful job of laying out the case for why such a framework is needed, as well as providing enough how-to details, to allow your team to implement the framework on their own.”
Hilbert Robinson
Critical Chain Thought Leader/Author
- How many projects are currently executed in your organization, including small ones?
- How many and what kind of projects can be initiated now within capacity constraints?
- Do you have any due-date sensitive projects which cannot meet their due dates? How many?
- What kind of recovery actions are typically taken for such projects now?
- What is the impact on the entire organization from the delay of these projects?
- Compared to three months ago, is the performance of the whole organization is getting better or worse? How much?
Overview of the book:
From fundamental knowledge of the Theory of Constraints, through a concrete practical method adapting Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), its application for managing projects, Agile CCPM is introduced, an enhanced set of techniques intended to significantly improve organizational performance in software development and other "complex" environments, by making small changes in managing projects.
Accolades:
"This book focuses on addressing one of the biggest problems in project management -- how we handle the different types of 'unknowns' while delivering on hard commitments. It does so by blending best practices from both Critical Chain and Agile methods, which are often presented as in conflict. Mr. Ujigawa is one of the few leading thinkers who has broken this conflict, showing how key techniques can be blended harmoniously in the pursuit of ever-faster and ever-more-reliable projects."
Mike Hannan
CEO, Fortezza Consulting
CEO, Project Management for Change
“Great book that shows the synergy between Agile and Critical Chain Project Management. It is very well written and integrates these two methodologies effectively.”
Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D.
CEO, SharpFocus, LLC
"Given that project environments are becoming increasingly complex, blighted by uncertainty and the pressure to reliably achieve more in shorter periods of time grows with every passing year this is indeed a valuable book. Readers are taken from supportive theory to successful methods, and then from these methods down to detailed instruction on how to use the tools provided to deal with these realities. I personally know that the learnings passed on by the author have been developed, tested and refined for a decade plus - the end product is a book in which the approaches presented are quite accessible to the reader. More important they are powerful and both easily and readily applicable."
Rodger B Morrison, P Eng, BaSc, Jonah
Partner, Omni Management Consulting Alliance
“For anyone who is looking for a coherent and proven framework through which to leverage the power of Goldratt’s Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and the flexibility of Agile practices, Agile CCPM is your answer. Koichi has done a masterful job of laying out the case for why such a framework is needed, as well as providing enough how-to details, to allow your team to implement the framework on their own.”
Hilbert Robinson
Critical Chain Thought Leader/Author
246 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 12, 2017
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November 4, 2018
I saw an early presentation of these concepts at a TOCICO conference, and this book provides some more detail around the thinking and the concept.
The general idea presented here is a mechanism to combine Agile into CCPM - in particular how to combine the reporting of progress of the two approaches. They decide to use the CCPM “fever chart” as the main progress indicator (which I like, as I am quite familiar) while taking advantage of the idea of iterations and Velocity of completion. It’s given me a few things to ponder, and helps realize that there is still plenty of preparation to be done in some “Agile” spaces as their is in more traditional projects.
Why only three stars? The authors present a number of ideas for thinking about projects, but they aren’t given enough detail to fully appreciate what they are trying to communicate. And the writing (or translation) isn’t always the clearest.
The general idea presented here is a mechanism to combine Agile into CCPM - in particular how to combine the reporting of progress of the two approaches. They decide to use the CCPM “fever chart” as the main progress indicator (which I like, as I am quite familiar) while taking advantage of the idea of iterations and Velocity of completion. It’s given me a few things to ponder, and helps realize that there is still plenty of preparation to be done in some “Agile” spaces as their is in more traditional projects.
Why only three stars? The authors present a number of ideas for thinking about projects, but they aren’t given enough detail to fully appreciate what they are trying to communicate. And the writing (or translation) isn’t always the clearest.
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