A review by bookishnik
Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

4.0

I just love a good business novel. I read The Goal back in the late '90s and that is one book I reference to this day. So I was excited to see what Goldratt does in Critical Chain. I really enjoyed how he focused on both business and academia to solve the project management question that seemed to be popping up in industry. How to manage project management constraints is pretty straight forward when you only have one project but if multiple projects, things become exponentially more difficult. In this story a group of executive MBA students and professors discover together a method to approach the critical chain when multiples projects are involved. The dialogue between the industry leaders and professors is very engaging, informative, and relevant even today. However, as in most business novels the attempt to integrate the personal lives into the story was a big failure. The storyline with one of the characters and his concern with his materialistic wife was laughable at best.