Goldratt's Rules of Flow

by

Paperback

English language

Published by North River Press.

ISBN:
9780884272090
2 stars (1 review)

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, abd 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.

1 edition

reviewed Goldratt's Rules of Flow by Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag

Goldratt re-invents kanban

2 stars

This is a fairly short "business novel" in which Eli Goldratt's daughter explains Lean and Kanban using Theory of Constraints terminology, by re-hashing most of what's in Goldratt's earlier 'Critical Chain'. I suppose some of the ideas might be new to some people, but there's nothing really important here if you're already familiar with Lean and Agile. And the "novel" is pretty thin on the ground, with little of the allegorical story-telling that made 'The Goal' so wonderful.

In a word: lame.