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Critical Chain 2025 Conference - How to obtain focused duration

TOCICO (Theory Of Constraints International Certification Organization) is organizing the annual Critical Chain conference on April 2-3, 2025.

 

Discover through the many conferences how this method allows projects to be successfully completed, on time and on budget, without sacrificing quality or content, and with the same resources.

Marris Consulting will be present at the Critical Chain 2025 conference

How to obtain short estimates of task durations

 

By Philip Marris

 

In Critical Chain, it is essential to define short and focused durations for individual tasks, but how to obtain them?

In this conference, Philip Marris explains how to reach a state where it is the teams who propose "focused durations" themselves, thus demonstrating good adherence to the approach.

Philip Marris defuses a concern often encountered "yes but what if it is not the right duration"; the essential thing is not so much to determine THE right duration but to obtain a shorter, more accurate one than previously, and how this figure is not an end in itself but the beginning of an improvement process aimed at reducing this duration from year to year.

Critical Chain 2025

 

Speaker

Philip started his Theory Of Constraints journey in 1986 when he joined Creative Output and worked with Eliyahu Goldratt, the founder of TOC and author of the worldwide bestseller “The Goal”. In 1994 he wrote a bestselling TOC textbook in French.

He is also a recognized Lean expert and combines Lean (Manufacturing/Engineering/Management) with TOC. He founded Marris Consulting based in Paris France in 2005.

Half their business is outside of France in Europe and the rest of the world. He is bilingual and bi-cultural French/English. He is very active in the TOC community. He has implemented TOC over 300 times in over 30 countries. His clients include: Air France, ArcelorMittal, Ariane Group, Embraer, GSK, McDonald's, Louis Vuitton, Procter & Gamble, Safran, Salzgitter-Mannesmann, Siemens, SKF, Thales and Zodiac Aerospace.

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