Stop Optimizing Projects. Start Optimizing the System.
About
Many organizations implement Critical Chain correctly at the project level – and still see little or no overall improvement. Projects may run better locally, but delivery performance, throughput, and reliability of the organization barely change.
This session explains why project-level optimization is insufficient by design. Using Theory of Constraints principles, the talk shows how CCPM must be embedded into a system-level operating model to generate real results.
Participants will learn why local project success can coexist with global failure, which systemic mechanisms neutralize CCPM benefits, and what it really means to optimize for flow, throughput, and focus instead of individual projects.
This session challenges a deeply rooted paradigm:
☐ If we improve enough projects, the system will improve.
It demonstrates why this assumption is wrong – and what to do instead.
When
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)
Agenda
Why improving individual projects with Critical Chain often does not improve overall organizational performance.
The common system constraints and policies that prevent CCPM from delivering full benefits.
How to shift from optimizing individual projects to improving flow and throughput across the whole system
Discussion+ live Q&A
Presenter
Uwe Techt
Investor, CEO at VISTEM GmbH & Co. KG University of Hamburg
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