Billion Dollar Solution: Secrets of Prochain Project Management

By Robert Newbold

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934979058
• ISBN13: 9781934979051
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Prochain Solutions Inc
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Solid Introduction to CCPM

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.

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 leaders to adopt the method of ProChain management, and use it to transform one's business into a more economical company that knows where its money goes and what it does. With advice on implementing the system, and how it may be the best way to deal with a business that plays on a global scale, "The Billion Dollar Solution" is a fine and highly recommended piece for business leaders everywhere.

Putting Critical Chain into Practice

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 project managers frustrated with project management need to read and implement the Billion $ Sol

In the Billion Dollar Solution, Rob does a great job of outlining the steps needed to implement Critical Chain and ProChain Project Management. He has also identified the opportunities and benefits that a company can achieve if they implement ProChain Project Management... hence the name of the book. After having been exposed to ProChain project management, I can't imagine going back to conventional project management (nor can any of my peers who have lived in both project management worlds). The benefits in being able to focus on what is actually important today in a project is invaluable to getting a project done on time. Any project manager reading the book will be able to identify with the problems related to conventional project management and how ProChain Project Management overcomes them. The only thing Rob can't do is actually make you do the work. That you have to do yourself .