Powerful yet simple techniques to solve project management's toughest problems. This book teaches companies to drastically cut project development times resulting in early completion within budget and without compromising quality or specifications.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
An interesting look at TOC and project management:
This book was not quite as enlightening as The GOAL but was still well worth the investment to read. The idea of critical chain constraints on a project is not new but the idea still has merit and is presented by Goldratt in a way that makes it easy for PMPs and non-project workers alike to understand.
Goldratt Weaves Another Great Story!:
Stories are one of the best ways to teach and Eliyahu Goldratt is a master story teller! In Critical Chain Goldratt weaves a tale to teach concepts to project managers on how to drive down schedule time, and reduce product cost using Theory of Constraints (TOC). It is an extension of the concepts taught in the Goal, but this time for project management rather than process management. The problem management (at a factitious company) face in this book is their products have a short life span (6 months),... more info
Starting Point for TOC Applied to Projects:
This book is about applying TOC to project management. After reading this book I understood why TOC for project management is not as straight forward as it might first appear. Not only are projects not repeatable like production assembly lines buts in a multi-project environment you need to take shared resources into account. This is even more difficult when the managers for each project are different people. Lessons learned: - Estimates should be "In X days with 50% chance of completion"
- Cut... more info
Critical chain in the series.:
You're a project manager? This book is good. You're not a project manager? You can learn from this, as being a single mom is being a project manager as well. It doesn't have the magic though if you can't transform knowledge to wisdom and that's where this book comes up short. Although TOC is taken one step further, this book is on the edge of the four star rating. It does give manager some valuable insights which were missing in the previous books and is still fun to read and maybe it makes me... more info
