Apr 10, 2019 2:59 AM
Replying to Deepesh Rammoorthy
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If you want to enhance your knowledge on the Critical Chain Method , read the book , told as a story by the author Ely Goldratt. The Book is called "The Goal".
I read it halfway but then I lost interest when the game that the kids were playing in the book got too complicated.
Still what I gleaned from the book was that if you have a production line , things should move in a well coordinated fashion, one after the other and your focus must be on identifying the bottlenecks or the things that slow down progress and the dependencies that the subsequent steps may have on the preceding steps .
Bottlenecks create more inventory and raw stock that fill up space and you lose revenue which you would otherwise gain from the finished product . Which was the reason the factory that the author was working in , was about to be shut down .
But from a game where his son and the other kids were playing , where a big sized kid was slowing up the rest of the kids, the author realized how to effectively use the bottleneck kid at a later stage in the game , thereby keep the critical chain going .
That made him improve the work at his factory where he was the production manager and eventually saved him from losing his job and saving the production plant.
