Project Management Mindset Shifts Session 7 Maximizing Project Flow by Managing the Amount of Wo...

Projects deliver value and benefits to our organizations which prompts us to start them as soon as possible. Our instincts tell us that to get a project completed as soon as possible, we must start it immediately. However, when our project environments are running low on capacity, these decisions can have the opposite effect; projects can take significantly longer to complete which delays the benefits. Understand the often-overlooked undesirable effects of starting projects as soon as possible.

To accelerate projects and their benefits, stop starting and start finishing; start projects when teams can focus on high-speed and high-quality completion.

“The lead time of a project strongly depends on the number (and work content) of the other projects running simultaneously in the system.” –Dr. Eli Goldratt