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Delivering projects:

to scope within budget and on time – every time?

Current Situation

In today’s high demand environment projects are typically measured against three main key performance indicators. These are scope, budget and due date. During the lifecycle of the project a significant pull from one of these three KPI’s can draw the project away from (at least) one of the other two. Hitting all three simultaneously is the only real measure of success.

The conflicting requirements of meeting these three inter-related objectives; scope, budget and due date, leads to decisions, behaviours and actions that create the following problems and challenges:

Shortage of capacity on key resources
Multi tasking and fire-fighting common place
Constantly changing priorities
Late changes or additions to requirements
Some resources not available – even when promised
High levels of micro management
Poor synchronisation with other areas of the business
Too many (unwanted) surprises

Most of the above are linked by a cause and effect relationship but all inevitably lead to organisational growth being limited by the ability to deliver projects successfully.

Attainable Reality

Our objective for our clients is to provide all levels of management with a set of tools and processes to enable more effective decision making based on the following criteria:

Global common approach across the business
Protection against the “common” inherent uncertainties
Visibility across projects with drill down
Relative priority of tasks within and across projects
Directing management focus to “at risk” situations
Highlighting early recovery actions
Surfacing constraints

The above criteria are met by combining Goldratt’s Critical Chain methodology and appropriate IT tools with Goldratt UK’s expertise in delivering results. This provides clients with an improved level of performance, clearer policies, aligned measurements, enhanced knowledge and better resource utilisation.

We have a proven track record in implementing these established techniques and change management in assisting project professionals, in high demand environments, to deliver projects to scope, within budget and on time, every time.

Rapid bottom-line improvement
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