Archive for February, 2010

Welcome to the ProChain Blog!!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Welcome to the ProChain Solutions blog site! We will post articles that are of interest regarding project management, critical chain, and related topics. We have started with some selected entries from existing blogs of Rob Newbold and Andreas Scherer.

Please post comments or send them to us so that we can make this a great tool for the entire ProChain community.

Rob Newbold, CEO, ProChain Solutions, Inc.
Andreas Scherer, General Manager, ProChain Solutions, Inc.

Critical Chain in the Life Sciences – Upcoming Conferences

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Just in case you were wondering how to find out who is using Critical Chain in the life science industry, here are three events in the first half of this year helping you to tap into the learnings of current practitioners of this methodology. These conferences represent interesting opportunities to learn more about Critical Chain and network with experts in this field.

PMI Pharmaceutical SIG Conference: “Innovative Project Management to Succeed in the Dynamic Biopharmaceutical Environment”. The event will take place in Philadelphia, PA on March 15-17 2010. There will be a three hour tutorial on Critical Chain co-hosted by Jason Bork, Eli Lilly and Andreas Scherer, Prochain. Click here for more information.

BiopharmaPM Conference: “7th Annual Project Management Conference for the Drug and Device Industry” in Orlando, FL, April 12-14 2010. Andreas Scherer will hold a presentation with the title “Reducing Cycle Times in the Pharma R&D Process”. Click here for more information.

Drug Information Association (DIA): 47th Annual Meeting in Washington DC, June 13 – June 17 2010. At this event Andreas Scherer has the privilege to host a session on Critical Chain. There will be three speakers from companies such as Abbott Labs, Johnson and Johnson and Eli Lilly covering various aspects of implementing Critical Chain in their respective environments. Please click here for more information.