The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the Critical Chain project management solution. I´ve used Eliyahu Goldratt´s book, Critical Chain, as a framework to help you understand the main components of the solution. Therefore, this book attempts to be a faithful synopsis of his book.

While the synopsis of the Critical Chain chapters in his book are limited to the concepts expressed in Goldratt´s original text, I added my own observations and interpretations to enhance your understanding. Projects in less time provides an introduction to the ideas introduced by Critical Chain in an easy-to-digest form and then round it out with glossary terms, and reference materials.

According to many project management professionals, Goldratt´s Critical Chain is “required reading”. It´s thought to be the most significant contribution to project management since the introduction of PERT system and the critical path method.

Content

• There is a problem at Genemodem
• Meet Rick Silver
• Meet president Vonbraun
• The problem with projects
• Business school enrollments are declining
• Projects are inherently uncertain
• Declining enrollments are caused by customer dissatisfaction
• Project Managers lose sight of the objective
• How to manage the project?
• Start early or as late as possible?
• The theory of constraints and project management
• Erroneous measurements created erroneous behaviors
• Why projects take too long
• Increasing throughput is the main goal
• Projects are similar to production
• Developing the criticar chain solution
• Managing the project
• Managing subcontractors
• What if the project is cost plus?
• A solution to declining enrollments
• Defining the critical chain
• TOC offers real solutions to business problems
• What if the bottleneck moves?
• How to manage a portfolio of projects