Critical Chain

Author: Eliyahu Goldratt
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Projects are everywhere, but they all have certain characteristics: limited available resources; fixed completion dates and budget constraints; often involve a wide scope, not only across departments but also involving stakeholders outside the company. During the project period, dealing with uncertainties and coordinating across departments and enterprises is even more challenging. Effectively leading all aspects of various projects towards the project goals is a high challenge, and as a common tool for project management, the Critical Path Method seems to be losing its effectiveness. This book introduces the Theory of Constraints (TOC) into the field of project management in the form of a novel, proposing a new project management method—Critical Chain—that can break through production and management bottlenecks.