
Critical Chain
Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
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Narrated by:
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Alexander Cendese
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Rick Adamson
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Tavia Gilbert
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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The central question here is, most of the strategies of /The Goal/ concern having variable order streams for the same 50 products, but many companies instead face a situation where your queue of orders contains unique products: how do we optimize /that/? In other words what happens in a context where you cannot reasonably identify bottlenecks in order throughput, because the orders have no shared structure that can be used to define a “bottleneck”?
The book like its predecessor tacks on personal conflicts to humanize the material, but here they fall much more flat. Goldratt’s narrative switches between points of view in order to present information that the main character, a college professor, would not have been privy to: but it is debatable that this is necessary in the first place. The bigger problem is that the narrator is not being changed so much by the journey he has embarked upon. One might imagine that a college professor has a lot of personal tasks that could be thought of as projects, and so there would be a personal journey to this story: if so, that is extremely implicit.
The book realizes the scattered points of view by switching actual physical narrators, which is extremely jarring, especially when they do not agree on the pronunciation of the central company GeneModem. Alexander Cendese is not a bad narrator but his voice has a charming gravelly-ness to it that unfortunately makes the characters bleed together, when you interrupt him in this way with folks who do not have that same vocal texture. With /The Goal/ I may have questioned the running soundtrack but the ensemble of voice actors seen there truly would have helped here: Rather than trying to pick out two different narrators’ takes on one character as “the same” it would have been nice if that character were just always voiced by the one.
Ideas intriguing, writing/direction acceptable
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Great way of explaining TOC
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fun listen, great nuggets for forsight
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I just a good story that teaches me.
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extremely valuable
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A project managers must read!
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Character voices change
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An outstanding piece of work that is still cutting edge even today
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Hated the changing voices
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Excellent concepts!
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