The Project Manifesto: Transforming Your Life and Work with Critical Chain Values

How can your bureaucratic organization achieve world-class speed and productivity? How can you better balance your time at home and at work? How can you spend time on the things you love, while at the same time keeping what you need? Roger Wilson must answer these questions when he goes from a dead-end job at Malloy Enterprises to managing Malloy's most urgent and important project, a secret development effort code-named Aurora. As Aurora's deadline looms ever closer, Roger has to figure out how to lead his team to success in the face of Malloy's inertia. At the same time, he struggles to keep his family together and to manage a revolutionary technology that seems to have ideas of its own. The Aurora team discovers that success is only possible when they challenge the basic values that underlie their day-to-day work. Their new values, the Project Manifesto coupled with their new critical chain scheduling approach, lead to dramatic improvements in speed and productivity.

Rob Newbold, CEO and cofounder of ProChain Solutions, is one of the world’s leading experts on project management using the critical chain approach. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed process improvements in the fields of health care, manufacturing, and project management. He is the author of numerous papers, contributor to several books, and author of two earlier books, Project Management in the Fast Lane and The Billion Dollar Solution. Rob holds degrees from Stanford University, SUNY Stony Brook, and Yale University. Bill Lynch is president and chief operating officer of ProChain Solutions. He has spent nearly twenty-five years creating breakthrough process improvements. Bill cofounded ProChain Solutions to provide innovative integrated solutions for product development and project and resource management. Bill is the owner of the Washington Spirit women’s professional soccer team and a founding member of the National Women’s Soccer League. He has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and graduate degrees in liberal arts and logistics management.