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    Project management in the fast lane : applying the theory of constraints / Robert C. Newbold ; foreword by Thomas B. McMullen, Jr.

    By: Newbold, Robert C. (Robert Clinton), 1954-Material type: TextTextSeries: St. Lucie Press/APICS series on constraints management: Publisher: Boca Raton, Fla. : St. Lucie Press, c1998Description: xxxv, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 1574441957 (alk. paper); 9781574441956 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Project management | Theory of constraints (Management)DDC classification: 658.4/04 LOC classification: HD69.P75 | N484 1998Online resources: Publisher description
    Contents:
    Bidding for the Project -- The Worker's Viewpoint -- Hidden Costs: Work-in-Process -- Hidden Costs: Lost Productivity -- The Generic Current Reality -- The Project Manager's Viewpoint -- Mirabilla -- A Critical Chain Schedule -- Managing Uncertainty -- Resolving the WIP Conflict -- Identifying the Critical Chain -- Adding Buffers -- Planning the Critical Chain Project -- The Goal -- Throughput: Ichiban -- The Throughput World: Climbing Out of the Box -- Global Improvement: The Five Focusing Steps -- Global Improvement: TOC Accounting -- The Project Dice Game -- Multiple Projects -- What Is a Schedule? -- Measurements
    Summary: This "how to" manual details proven methods for turning chronically late, over budget, and under performing projects completely around. The author provides clear guidance on making practical and powerful breakthrough changes to the way you manage projects. It includes a complete discussion of an approach pioneered by Dr. Eli Goldratt called "Critical Chain Scheduling," the most significant new development in project scheduling in the last 40 years.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    1. Bidding for the Project -- 2. The Worker's Viewpoint -- 3. Hidden Costs: Work-in-Process -- 4. Hidden Costs: Lost Productivity -- 5. The Generic Current Reality -- 6. The Project Manager's Viewpoint -- 7. Mirabilla -- 8. A Critical Chain Schedule -- 9. Managing Uncertainty -- 10. Resolving the WIP Conflict -- 11. Identifying the Critical Chain -- 12. Adding Buffers -- 13. Planning the Critical Chain Project -- 14. The Goal -- 15. Throughput: Ichiban -- 16. The Throughput World: Climbing Out of the Box -- 17. Global Improvement: The Five Focusing Steps -- 18. Global Improvement: TOC Accounting -- 19. The Project Dice Game -- 20. Multiple Projects -- 21. What Is a Schedule? -- 22. Measurements

    This "how to" manual details proven methods for turning chronically late, over budget, and under performing projects completely around. The author provides clear guidance on making practical and powerful breakthrough changes to the way you manage projects. It includes a complete discussion of an approach pioneered by Dr. Eli Goldratt called "Critical Chain Scheduling," the most significant new development in project scheduling in the last 40 years.

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