Critical Chain Project and Project Portfolio Control

Frequent conflicts about priorities and resource commitments? Difficulty completing projects on time? Difficulty completing projects within budget? Project scope/content compromised to meet dates and/or budget? Projects abandoned or completed without gaining the promised benefit? What would these numbers mean in your environment? Design and/or Production Engineering Time ▼40% Project Capacity with Existing Resources ▲100% Early Project Delivery Results reported by LeTourneau Technologies, Oregon Freeze Dry and Erickson Air-Crane respectively A Complete Critical Chain Solution Package Client Results with Critical Chain What is Critical Chain?

A Complete Critical Chain Solution Package

CMG’s Critical Chain Solution Package couples the best software available with the most advanced approaches to the implementation of Critical Chain Project Management and enterprise-wide planning and execution. It is the Systemic Approach to managing a company's entire project portfolio. Our Implementation Package combines Realization’s innovative Concerto™ software application with the practical and effective Critical Chain Consulting Services.

• Critical Chain Consulting Services – CCPM Education, CCPM Design Facilitation, On-site Training, Support and Follow-up Audits
• Proven Critical Chain Software - Concerto™ by Realization

CMG uses a proven 5 stage process that guides a company through the necessary components and around the potential pitfalls of a major Critical Chain initiative.

These stages bring the organization through critical milestones involved with executive sponsorship and priority designation, lead the construction of project networks and templates, assist in the installation and set-up of Concerto™, trouble shoot an initial set of projects through “go live, and establish and train a Program Office.

After the initial projects are loaded and a Program Office is established our attention turns to synchronizing the project portfolio with the rest of the organization. By identifying your key leverage points in the organization, our strategic synchronization techniques will guide the development and application of new measures, policies and behavioral bridges across functions.

Through a unique and vibrant partnership with Realization, CMG integrates the Concerto™ application into all of its Critical Chain Project Management implementations.

Concerto™ architecture allows multi-site communications on demand and is structured to grow along with your use of CCPM. Its Critical Chain scheduling features, reporting formats and portfolio management features are simply the best in the business.

Concerto™ is a powerful tool to bring the methodology into real-time reality. Web-based demonstrations are easy to schedule and take about 1.5 hours.

Model and Plan Your Critical Chain Projects	Easily Calculate and Set Buffers
Manage Your Entire Project Portfolio	Execute (View, Manage, Update) via the Web

Schedule a Concerto™ Web-Based Demonstration

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What is Critical Chain?

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is the modern and the most effective way to maximize the use of resources in a multi-project environment. Traditional approaches are designed to manage individual project performance around "critical path" whereas Critical Chain maximizes the collective performance of multiple projects around resource and organizational constraints. If your organization's constraint is in project management, CCPM is the place to start.

Critical Chain is based on rethinking what is truly critical and constraining to a project when we make decisions around up front planning as well as what is truly critical in the execution phase. It involves major paradigm shifts at both the organizational and individual level but pays off dramatically. Successful implementations typically result in doubling the number of projects an environment can produce while maintaining timing, budget and scope commitments. What would that be worth in your organization?

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