Full Description
This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt's novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In perhaps Eli's most readable book yet, two of the established principles of project management, the engineering estimate and project milestones, are found wanting and dismissed, and other established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical, yet clear, understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced, and Project Buffers, Feeding Buffers, Limit Multitasking, Improved Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability versus accumulated variability so deftly you won't even be aware of learning about them - they ll just seem like more common sense! Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with projects. If you use block diagrams, drawings or charts to keep track of your activities, you are managing a project - and this book is for you.
Contents
1: Chapter 1; 2: Chapter 2; 3: Chapter 3; 4: Chapter 4; 5: Chapter 5; 6: Chapter 6; 7: Chapter 7; 8: Chapter 8; 9: Chapter 9; 10: Chapter 10; 11: Chapter 11; 12: Chapter 12; 13: Chapter 13; 14: Chapter 14; 15: Chapter 15; 16: Chapter 16; 17: Chapter 17; 18: Chapter 18; 19: Chapter 19; 20: Chapter 20; 21: Chapter 21; 22: Chapter 22; 23: Chapter 23; 24: Chapter 24; 25: Chapter 25
