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"Anyone who doesn't snap up a copy is missing a wonderful opportunity for professional and personal development." -- Assembly
"Critical Chain will revolutionize project management." -- World Aero-Engine Review
"Critical Chain's powerful yet simple techniques...solve project management's toughest problems." -- James R. Holt, Professor of Engineering Management, Washington State University
"Eli Goldratt's first novel, The Goal, shook up the factory floor...Goldratt essentially adds a discipline for understanding what drives project performance and therefore what the focus of a project manager's attention should be." -- Harvard Business Review
"This book (Critical Chain) is valuable to two main audiences: project managers and senior managers... useful for dealing with one of the most difficult and pressing management challenges: developing highly innovative new products." -- Harvard Business Review
"Critical Chain will revolutionize project management." -- World Aero-Engine Review
"Critical Chain's powerful yet simple techniques...solve project management's toughest problems." -- James R. Holt, Professor of Engineering Management, Washington State University
"Eli Goldratt's first novel, The Goal, shook up the factory floor...Goldratt essentially adds a discipline for understanding what drives project performance and therefore what the focus of a project manager's attention should be." -- Harvard Business Review
"This book (Critical Chain) is valuable to two main audiences: project managers and senior managers... useful for dealing with one of the most difficult and pressing management challenges: developing highly innovative new products." -- Harvard Business Review
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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.
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My Review of Critical Chain,
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This review is from: Critical Chain (Paperback)
This is my book review, as published in the Northeast Florida Chapter of the Project Managment Institute July 200 newsletter: "I just finished reading a great book! Critical Chain is written by Eli Goldratt, previously of the Avraham Goldratt Institute (AGI), who is now leading his own organization. One could refer to Eli Goldratt as the father of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC is an overall philosophy usually applied to running and improving an organization and readily applied to managing projects. The TOC tools relate to problem solving (what to change from, what to change to, and how to make that change) and daily management (win-win conflict resolution, effective communication, team building skills, delegation, and empowerment). In a nutshell, critical chain (which is a part of TOC) is a project management concept where slack is not applied to each task, but is instead collected as a buffer at the end of a project. Progress is based on performance against the schedule, coupled with calculating what portion of the buffer has been used. I was intrigued with the critical chain approach, so I picked up this book and am glad I did. While many educational books are dry reading (let's face it), Critical Chain is both educational and entertaining. The author provides a fictional setting to present step-by-step instructions on how to use the method, along with useful examples. More importantly, he explains how each step of the process evolved and what problems it resolves. Critical Chain is the latest in a series of books which discuss these solutions in detail (the preceding books are The Goal, The Race, and It's Not Luck). It took me about five hours to read and was so good that I'm anxious to read the others!"
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The Goal re-applied to PM,
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This review is from: Critical Chain (Paperback)
I received The Goal as part of my MBA Operations Management course but held off reading until I graduated. I couldn't put The Goal down, nor could I put down Critical Chain. Critical Chain revisits the same ideas from The Goal and applies them to Project Management. I hoped for an aha... and got several minor ones. I do recommend this book. But don't let the book lull you into thinking everything is figured out. I haven't quite figured out where the precise misses are (relative to my world), but I know there are some gaps. Guess I'll have to think some... but don't we all!Recommended reading approach: read once through and then revisit the chapters where our hero is in class and also the one where he is enjoying the TOC lecture (ie. on the second pass, ignore the fictional dialog regarding our hero's fight for tenure). Read SLOWLY at this point, and have a notepad handy to apply the ideas to your world. Think! I learned a heck of alot more the second time through.
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Just as good if not better than "The Goal",
This review is from: Critical Chain (Paperback)
Like "The Goal," by the same author this book is excellent. If you don't think that you can learn about business from a novel, then you are wrong. I have probably learned more from this novel than most of the business books that I have read. This book will transform your business practices.
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