Formerly known as APICS Puget Sound

Smaller organizations do not use project management enough for various reasons.  The obstacles to adoption in general are even more onerous on under resourced companies.  The result is that projects are routinely managed in an ad hoc fashion.  These people do not fill out the annual state of the profession surveys and so the picture painted by Gartner is too optimistic.  The competition tend to perform equally poor and so expectations are low across the board.  Any one company in a market that figure out a secret way to be faster and more reliable than the others, can dominate their market.

Key to the success of the secret way is that it must be doable by mere mortals and should not add an unreasonable amount of overhead that can't pay for itself in very short order.

Consider Critical Chain as a way of bringing the benefits of mature project management practices into smaller organizations who might be thinking that it is not for them.

Join us with Hilbert Robinson, expert with TOC/CCPM/Lean, compliments of ASCM Seattle Chapter.  As always, please bring your own coffee!