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Critical Chain

By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
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Summary

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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"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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Classic Business Novel

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

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an entertaining presentation of a dry subject

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one of the most appealing project management lessons

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Interesting

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

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A must read for project managers and leaders.

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

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An excellent listen

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.

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recommended

quite interesting story and explanation.
it gives a brief introduction to some basic principles which are mostly forgotten.
The narator is very good...it was a plesent lecture.

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Multiple readers doesn't add to the experience

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.

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Knowledge

Great knowledge gained that I'll be able to apply to my own business immediately. Told in story format rather than theory

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