Critical Chain

Tämä Goldrattin kirja kuvaa kehyskertomuksen avulla, kuinka projektien läpimenoaikaa voidaan lyhentää merkittävästi. Goldratin maailmanmenestyskirja The Goal on saanut todella merkittävän jatkoteoksen, joka soveltaa TOC-menetelmää projektitoimintaan ja projektien ohjaukseen. Kirjassa kuvataan tuotekehitysprojektin hallintaa ja nopeuttamista, jopa murto-osaan alkuperäisestä aikataulusta.

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If Dr. Richard Silver is to get tenure, he needs something special. In fact, a breakthrough solution. So, with the help of his MBA students, Dr. Sliver begins to explore the subject of Project Management. Their investigation leads to some surprising conclusions: the discovery of large amounts of safety time in many projects and how this safety time is then wasted though bad multitasking, "Student Syndrome" and unsynchronised integration.

Thus begins the development of a remarkable and radical new approach to project management. Safety time is aggregated in "buffers" and placed at strategic points on the network to protect due-date performance. Policies that encourage beneficial behaviours lead to significantly less wasted opportunities and the project managers focus switches from the Critical Path to the Critical Chain - the sequence of task and resource dependent events that prevents a project from being completed in a shorter time, given finite resources.

Critical Chain, a gripping fast-paced business novel, does for Project Management what Eli Goldratt's other novels have done for production and marketing.