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Critical Chain

Project Management and the Theory of Constraints

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Critical Chain

By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
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About this listen

A young, untested team of problem solvers challenged with saving their company moves from board room to classroom in search of answers - and finds them through lively, open discourse with their innovative professor. This gripping, fast-paced business novel does for project management what Eliyahu M. Goldratt's other novels have done for production and marketing.

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Critic reviews

"This 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 innovated new products." ( Harvard Business Review)
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Most know timely delivery is the critical measure for project success. knowing your Critical Chain and not just your critical path will give you a much improved chance of achieving it

A must read for project managers and leaders.

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Really enjoyed listening to this as alway the story plays like a mority tale. I keep finding myself returning to different segments to understand the implications.

An excellent listen

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If you don't know about the theory of constraints then you probably should. This book explains them in the context of project management.

Classic Business Novel

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Did this book on a recommendation from a Agile project management class. Really enjoyed the setup and story some really interesting points in it

Interesting

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With ToC applied to Production (in "The Goal") and then Sales & Marketing (in "It's not luck"), the series now moves to Project Management and Shared resources (in "Critical Chain").

In a post-Agile World, this PM thinking might now be starting to show its age!

However, I think the most jarring aspect of this presentation is the switching of 3 readers (2 male & 1 female), chapter by chapter, for no apparent reason.

The recording of "The Goal" does it well; this doesn't.

Multiple readers doesn't add to the experience

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