Every day corporations waste huge amounts of money through ineffective and unreliable management practices. In the Billion Dollar Solution, Rob Newbold has lifted the veil on ProChain Project Management, the project management approach that has been implemented in some of the best-known companies in the world. Through clear, concise descriptions of needed tools and measurements, along with real-world examples, you ll see how your company can dramatically improve the management of projects and resources. You ll discover how you can elevate reliability, speed, and productivity in order to keep the money for the bottom line. You ll learn about critical chain project scheduling, change management, and the other tools and processes needed to drive excellence.
Billion Dollar Solution
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Rob Newbold, CEO and founder of ProChain Solutions, is one of the world s leading experts on project scheduling and management using the critical chain approach. Newbold is a frequent writer and speaker on the subject of project management. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed process improvements in the fields of health care, manufacturing, and project management.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Billion Dollar Solution is one of those books that you have trouble putting down. The details it provides on how to implement CCPM and the true power it provides to deliver projects on time is invaluable.
Bob Sproull
Bob Sproull
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rob Newbold's latest book explains all. It includes the necessary changes required in human behaviour combined with the methodology of Critical Chain and the ProChain Project Management implementation process.
All the ingredients are explained. What you need to add, to deliver the incremental results, is leadership and commitment. The billion dollar solution is truly within your grasp.
All the ingredients are explained. What you need to add, to deliver the incremental results, is leadership and commitment. The billion dollar solution is truly within your grasp.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Billion Dollar Solution is a very good introduction to critical chain project management. Newbold clearly knows his stuff, and his description of the benefits and principles of CCPM are very clear. It goes far more in depth into critical chain concepts than Critical Chain and other briefer introductions. The more advanced reader will also want to look at Critical Chain Project Management, Second Edition
Throughout the book the principles are discussed in a composite case study, a fictional company called Imventure. In Part One Newbold discusses principles like Ownership, Leverage Priorities, Status Updates, Planning and Uncertainty. The second part of the book gets into tools, behaviors and processes: critical chain scheduling, buffers, building networks, and an intro to multi-project scheduling. Part Three is on Achieving the Vision. There were some useful tips there, but the author really only considers his own approach at this point.
One downside of the book is the ongoing sense of hype or spin that this approach is revolutionary and wonderful. This should not be a surprise for a book whose title contains the words "Billion dollars" and "Secrets". Also, the title and phrases used in the book strongly emphasize "Prochain" project management (even calling it PPM) but there is surprisingly little talk about the use of Prochain itself. In reality, it's a book on critical chain project management with some minor discussion of how Prochain itself is actually used. Another annoyance was that things at which Prochain and other current approaches to CCPM are weak were dismissed as unimportant or counterproductive (e.g. optimization, rescheduling). Nevertheless the book sets out what it hopes to accomplish, and does so at a price far less than other similar textbooks. It's definitely worth reading if you are (or looking to become) a practitioner of CCPM.
Throughout the book the principles are discussed in a composite case study, a fictional company called Imventure. In Part One Newbold discusses principles like Ownership, Leverage Priorities, Status Updates, Planning and Uncertainty. The second part of the book gets into tools, behaviors and processes: critical chain scheduling, buffers, building networks, and an intro to multi-project scheduling. Part Three is on Achieving the Vision. There were some useful tips there, but the author really only considers his own approach at this point.
One downside of the book is the ongoing sense of hype or spin that this approach is revolutionary and wonderful. This should not be a surprise for a book whose title contains the words "Billion dollars" and "Secrets". Also, the title and phrases used in the book strongly emphasize "Prochain" project management (even calling it PPM) but there is surprisingly little talk about the use of Prochain itself. In reality, it's a book on critical chain project management with some minor discussion of how Prochain itself is actually used. Another annoyance was that things at which Prochain and other current approaches to CCPM are weak were dismissed as unimportant or counterproductive (e.g. optimization, rescheduling). Nevertheless the book sets out what it hopes to accomplish, and does so at a price far less than other similar textbooks. It's definitely worth reading if you are (or looking to become) a practitioner of CCPM.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A fine and highly recommended piece for business leaders everywhere
Improving a company's productivity is easier than one would believe. "The Billion Dollar Solution: Secrets of ProChain Project Management" is a business guide looking to inspire... Read more
Published on May 6, 2009 by Midwest Book Review
All project managers frustrated with project management need to read...
In the Billion Dollar Solution, Rob does a great job of outlining the steps needed to implement Critical Chain and ProChain Project Management. Read more
Published on March 9, 2009 by Mike Moeller
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
duck farming, project velocity, confetti factory, project launch, enterprise project management, critical chain schedule, project buffer, critical chain scheduling, pacing resource, buffer consumption, critical chain approach, stable priorities, buffer recovery, impact chain, milestone system, chain schedules, feeding buffer, steering team, dollar solution, integration risk, fever chart, buffer status, chain tasks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cycle of Results, Six Sigma, Project Lead, Schedule Chicken, Implementation Team, Billion Dollar Solution, Third Principle, Multitasking Maelstrom, Assistant Leads, Expert Certification, Zone of Reconciliation, Checklist Survey, Basics of Critical Chain Scheduling, Second Principle, Network Building Overview Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
duck farming, project velocity, confetti factory, project launch, enterprise project management, critical chain schedule, project buffer, critical chain scheduling, pacing resource, buffer consumption, critical chain approach, stable priorities, buffer recovery, impact chain, milestone system, chain schedules, feeding buffer, steering team, dollar solution, integration risk, fever chart, buffer status, chain tasks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cycle of Results, Six Sigma, Project Lead, Schedule Chicken, Implementation Team, Billion Dollar Solution, Third Principle, Multitasking Maelstrom, Assistant Leads, Expert Certification, Zone of Reconciliation, Checklist Survey, Basics of Critical Chain Scheduling, Second Principle, Network Building Overview Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
So You'd Like to...
|
|
