Goldratt's Rules of Flow

Auteur

Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology and specializes in developing training materials that enable personal and organizational growth. Daughter of Dr Eliyahu Goldratt, she has been part of his inner circle, and is the co-author of his life philosophy book The Choice. She manages his copyrights and publications around the world.

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Goldratt's Rules of Flow is the book that the great Eli Goldratt, author of The Goal, wanted to write about his later developments in the field of project management. As he passed away before accomplishing it, his daughter, Efrat Goldratt, a brilliant author in her own right had picked up the mantle.

Résumé

Marc Wilson is not giving up. He is determined to turn around the struggling family company and keep it, despite his father's decision to sell. The problem is that they are late on more and more projects and their customers won't tolerate it anymore. Marc is looking everywhere for a solution, when in one of his MBA classes he comes across a unique approach that views operations in terms of flow.

The concept of flow is straightforward. It's easy to visualize the stream of projects going through the system and understand that if something clogs the flow, the projects pile up; the lead time gets longer, and as a result the reliability of due dates suffers. What is not so easy is to uncover the specific obstacles that obstruct the flow and figure out how to remove them. Goldratt's Rules of Flow is the book that the great Eli Goldratt, author of The Goal, wanted to write about his later developments in the field of project management. As he passed away before accomplishing it, his daughter, Efrat Goldratt, a brilliant author in her own right, has picked up the mantle.

Whether you're a manager in engineering, IT, service or sales, this book will help you gain much better predictability and significantly improve your delivery.

Contenu

1. The Big Picture 2. Can't Miss the Due Dates 3. Re-evaluating 4. Undesirable Effects in Multi-Project Environments 5. What is Triage 6. Triage in Practice 7. Removing the "Nice-to-Haves" 8. Bad Multitasking 9. Will it Work? 10. The Multitasking Game 11. The Misconception About Starting Early 12. Dynamics of Theories and Trends 13. Full-kit 14. T Minus Preparation 15. Enough Weight, Enough Repetitions 16. Dosage 17. Full-kit Before Production 18. Additional Gates 19 Rework and Standardization 20. Synchronization 21. One-on-One 22. What Changes Should We Expect? 23. Taking Precautions 24. Buffer Management 25. Lead Time is Getting Shorter 26. How to Get Started 27. The Contingency Plan