Project Acceleration

How to Shorten Complex Projects Through Schedule Patterns
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-6963-8915-4
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 219 g

In complex projects, time is money. In crisis projects, every week of delay can create enormous cost. Yet project acceleration is often misunderstood as overtime, more resources, or more pressure on already overloaded teams.

This book takes a different view. It shows how complex projects can often be shortened by changing the structure of the schedule: decomposing work differently, aligning sequences, enabling earlier handovers, removing hidden bottlenecks, and increasing flow.

Project Acceleration presents a catalogue of schedule patterns that help project teams recognize recurring acceleration opportunities. The method was developed in complex engineering and plant projects and applied in acceleration workshops where schedule changes created major savings, including baggage handling projects with more than 10 million Euro in avoided cost.

The book is written for project managers, project controls specialists, planners, engineering managers, consultants, and leaders who need to shorten complex multi-team projects without simply pushing people to work faster.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dachs, Clemens

Über Autor(innen)

Dachs, Clemens
Dr. Clemens Dachs is an experienced project-management and process-improvement professional with a background in mathematics and many years of practical work in complex engineering projects. His work focuses on recognizing structural patterns in project schedules and translating them into practical methods for shortening project duration.

Over the course of his career, he has applied this thinking in large technical systems such as baggage handling systems, rail automation, medical particle accelerators, wind power projects, and high-voltage direct current transmission projects. In this book, he combines hands-on project experience with concepts from flow, lean thinking, critical chain, and systems thinking to help project teams identify acceleration opportunities and improve the way complex projects are planned and executed.

Clemens Dachs:
Dr. Clemens Dachs is an experienced project-management and process-improvement professional with a background in mathematics and many years of practical work in complex engineering projects. His work focuses on recognizing structural patterns in project schedules and translating them into practical methods for shortening project duration.

Over the course of his career, he has applied this thinking in large technical systems such as baggage handling systems, rail automation, medical particle accelerators, wind power projects, and high-voltage direct current transmission projects. In this book, he combines hands-on project experience with concepts from flow, lean thinking, critical chain, and systems thinking to help project teams identify acceleration opportunities and improve the way complex projects are planned and executed.