The construction industry is undergoing a substantial transformation shaped by innovations, challenges, and other factors that are forcing building companies to change the way they work and deliver th...

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...

The aerospace sector deals with mostly large-scale and highly complex projects, which makes it particularly sensitive to risk. Even minor risk can escalate quickly and affect safety, project timelines...

There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. Each of them comes with specific advantages and disadvantages,...

If we had to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty”—they have so many changing elements, and their outcomes are often hard to predict.  Nevertheless, this doesn't ...

When managing a project​, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is ...

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – cours...

The success of any project largely depends on the efficiency of its initial planning and tracking its progress. In project management, there’s a variety of tools that make it possible to plan project ...

We all know how difficult it can be to approach a large new endeavor. For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one by one, the cleaning up ...

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous othe...

Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that ...

Even a detailed project plan can run into a bottleneck. When several projects need the same specialist, approval, or test environment, work queues at that point while other teams wait. Bottlenecks in ...