Be Fast or Be Gone: Racing the Clock with Critical Chain Project Management [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Mike Knight, an executive in a semiconductor firm, learns that his eight-year-old son Tim has a rare form of brain cancer. Tim’s best hope for long-term survival is a drug called Supragrel. Unfortunately, Supragrel is still in early clinical trials and may reach the market too late. Mike makes the agonizing decision to quit his job and go to work for Altus Labs, the developer of Supragrel, in hopes of helping them bring the drug to market more quickly. Mike is in for the challenge of his life as he struggles to keep his family together while racing against time to implement world-class project management in Altus Labs.

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Overview

Mike Knight, an executive in a semiconductor firm, learns that his eight-year-old son Tim has a rare form of brain cancer. Tim’s best hope for long-term survival is a drug called Supragrel. Unfortunately, Supragrel is still in early clinical trials and may reach the market too late. Mike makes the agonizing decision to quit his job and go to work for Altus Labs, the developer of Supragrel, in hopes of helping them bring the drug to market more quickly. Mike is in for the challenge of his life as he struggles to keep his family together while racing against time to implement world-class project management in Altus Labs.

Critical Chain Project Management is a superior project management process that has been quietly implemented in some of the world’s best-known companies for over a decade. It is an enterprise solution that incorporates methodology and software tools to help organizations move to a relay-race “faster and better” paradigm. Companies that implement the Critical Chain approach routinely experience off-the-chart returns on investment. Projects in Research and Development, Information Technology, and elsewhere experience double-digit cycle time reductions and a ninety-five percent on-time delivery rate. The Critical Chain approach creates real shareholder value and a better work environment for knowledge workers, without compromising on quality or cost. This book tells you the story of a Critical Chain Project Management implementation. The venue is a major pharmaceutical company, but it could happen anywhere in Corporate America.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012394156
  • Publisher: ProChain Press
  • Publication date: 3/18/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 248
  • Sales rank: 771,334
  • File size: 564 KB

Meet the Author

Dr. Andreas Scherer is General Manager and EVP of ProChain Solutions, Inc., a market leader in providing Enterprise Project Management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He has held several senior executive positions, managing large businesses at AOL and Netscape. Dr. Scherer holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Hagen, Germany, and a Master of Computer Science from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is author and co-author of over twenty international publications and has written books on the internet and artificial intelligence. He is married and the proud father of one son.

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  • Posted April 23, 2012

    Recommended.

    It's a quick and thoughtful read and a great intro (a la "The Goal") to Critical Chain Project Management. Good start but much to fill-in later on CCPM in order to effectively exploit. I found it a little too melodramatic, but that's me. After you read several TOC-grounded novels, they became formulaic. However, they DO get you savvy-enough to read more detailed fact-based TOC information.

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