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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780884271536 ISBN: 0884271536 Label: North River Press Manufacturer: North River Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 246 Publication Date: 1997-04 Publisher: North River Press Studio: North River Press Sales Rank: 8714 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Book Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 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 ... Read More Rating: - Starting Point for TOC Applied to ProjectsThis 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" ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More Rating: - Just as good if not better than "The Goal" 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. Rating: - Enjoyable and usefulThis book is well written; easy to read and to understand. It includes a bunch of useful concepts in a smooth way, so you assimilate the almost without effort. Since it is written like a novel, rather than a textbook, I found myself reading it eagerly and I finished it in very few days. On the other hand, it is not suitable as a reference book. In conclusion, if you want to introduce in project managing from a practical point of view just buy it, it really pays off Browse for similar items by category:
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