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Critical Chain
- Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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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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- Charlotte A. Hu
- 10-10-14
Business Fiction - A New Genre
This book is horrific from a literary perspective - shallow, predictable characters with almost soap-opera like qualities. Please ignore the slow start where these unimpressive characters are introduced.
This book is brilliant because of the way it weaves a deeper meaning and education of project management into a plausible and interesting plotline, which makes up for the characters that carry it.
This book is not for the uninitiated. It's chocked full of jargon and concepts that people who have never studied project management would never understand. For those who have had a course or two on project management or even a weeklong seminar and for whom project management is a reality, the book has a clarity and focus that reaches beyond anything I've seen in any period of instruction on the topic. However, you must speak the project management language to follow the gist of the book.
As someone who has managed projects for years and studied project management, this book helped me achieve a new level of thinking and analysing business models, assumption, problems, workflows and more.
This book is truly brilliant. Did I start out by saying its bad literature? It is. And it's brilliant!
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- Demonique
- 04-17-15
Hated the changing voices
I had high hopes that the multiple voice actors would mean a female would play the female parts and the two men would play the key characters from the book. I was disappointed. Some chapters were read by the female doing all parts and others were by one or the other men. There was one chapter where it sounded like the men changed mid-sentence. I loved the book and I can't wait to apply TOC to my projects but the recording really threw me for a loop.
10 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-04-17
A Must Read for any business library!
Excellent and accessible for a wide audience. The best and most complete explanation for significant theories.
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- Lifesabeach
- 11-17-16
A link of manufacturing to projects
As a manufacturing engineer, this is the most relevant book I've read to drive project completion. Easy to follow, entertaining, and educational. A link of the structured manufacturing flow to project flow that makes sense, and it's sustainable.
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- LosBaz
- 06-20-14
Just alright
Any additional comments?
I purchased this book as someone who has never been in a Project Management role and wanted to learn more about the position. I was able to learn the basics through some of the use cases in the book and some interesting points I would have never thought about. However, overall I found myself losing interest as the book continued and felt like I wasn't learning anything new past the halfway point.
One byproduct that I did take from the audio though is a great way of teaching a class. I instruct classes and I really liked the teachers methods in delivering his material.
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- Derek T.
- 10-23-20
Better Than it Feels
This book is better than the sum of the individual reviewable elements. Cheesy story and performances, but the lessons will stay with me throughout my career.
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- Ciprian Dobre-Trifan
- 12-23-19
interdisciplinary ToC brilliance
This work proves the interdisciplinary application of ToC as the Unico universe started by the first books expands outside the production field. Brilliant!
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- Nerd's-eye view
- 01-27-18
Casting characters to voices would improve this
The insights in this book are fantastic, but the narration was hard to follow. Female characters and male characters were voiced by different narrators in different chapters. This made it much harder to follow than necessary.
The last chapter seemed incongruous with the rest, and wasn't satisfying, but I appreciated the insight it offered on justifying investments.
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- Shawn
- 09-02-16
Lack of Different Voices & Hard to Understand
Didn't like the lack of different voices. Male and female roles were by a male. Only one male voice throughout. The book is all over the place and hard to follow and understand. This issue only makes it even more of a challenge.
3 people found this helpful
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- T. G. Griffin
- 01-31-15
Classic TOC Novel
May not be Shakespeare, but communicates the fundamental precepts of Critical Chain in an entertaining way. I recommend this for anyone interested in TOC.
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- T. J. Baldwin
- 08-09-19
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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- T.C
- 06-29-15
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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- DK
- 03-23-21
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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- John N.
- 06-07-18
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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- Florian
- 02-21-17
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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- RRF
- 11-02-14
an entertaining presentation of a dry subject
Would you consider the audio edition of Critical Chain to be better than the print version?
I haven't read the print version.
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances? How does this one compare?
I have not.
Any additional comments?
one of the most appealing project management lessons
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- Emon
- 11-05-20
Ok from TOC perspective and drags a bit
Ok from TOC perspective but the points could be conveyed bit better and faster, gets bit boring with extra dramatization of the story.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-12-18
Worst narrator ever
Only on chapter 2 and the narrators voice is unlistenable. Seems to be a bunch of fictional stories that are boring AF, instead of worthwhile PM theory content
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- Anonymous User
- 07-12-18
alot to be learnt here
loved it. really engaging book. got addicted. great for someone learning project management. highly recommended
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- Rob
- 04-30-16
Engaging, thought provoking and practical.
If you could sum up Critical Chain in three words, what would they be?
Engaging, enlightening and practical.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Critical Chain?
Milestones are not needed for teams.
What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Practical explinations and real world examples of "out-of-the-box" thinking.
Any additional comments?
Please do not worry about the comments relating to the different readers. It does not matter one bit or take anything away from the content. Cannot rate this book high enough.
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- James
- 11-12-15
good ideas, clumsy storytelling
Storytelling is simplistic, but gets the job done. Shame different speakers voice the same characters in different sections.