The article is based on the webinar “Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones, to Achieve Excellent Reliability” with TOC experts Eli Schragenheim and Albert Ponsteen. Eli Schragen...

Critical chain project management (CCPM) assumes a static bottleneck in an organization, called the drum. In reality, these organizations are hard to find. In multi-project environments, the bottlenec...

The aerospace and defence industry is a space where giant  corporations manage multi-billion portfolios and deal with challenges that many other industries have the privilege not to encounter. With mu...

Capacity planning is a high-level resource management technique that can improve resource utilization and planning capabilities across multiple projects and help it achieve more with less resources. S...

In large organizations with multiple diversified resources and multiple projects running in parallel, managing resources can be problematic. With no framework, resources can become overloaded and stop...

A project management office (PMO) has a lot of responsibilities at any given organization, from portfolio rationalization to performance analytics. One of its crucial functions is resource management ...

Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) are important drivers of successful digital transformation and organizational success. They help companies unify their business processes, increase their eff...

Successful product portfolio management process requires more advanced tools than simple spreadsheets. Companies need solutions that provide them with real-time data, comprehensive visibility into the...

The webinar held by Dr. Albert Ponsteen and TOC expert Eli Schragenheim sheds light on the role of uncertainty in project management, the mistakes business leaders and project managers make in relatio...

Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out th...

Resource availability is a critical component of effective resource allocation: you need this data to assign the right people to the right task for timely and successful project delivery.   But despit...

It may happen that despite your efforts, your projects don’t bring the desired outcomes and sometimes even fail. The reasons vary, but improper resource allocation is one of the most common causes. In...