horiaconstantin reviewed Rolling Rocks Downhill by Clarke Ching
review
3 stars
spoiler alert I read this book because it was presented to me as an updated and easier to read version of "The Goal". I can relate a big part of it with "The phoenix Project" which is more comprehensive, but admittedly a longer read. The Phoenix Project includes concepts from devops and lean manufacturing.
Back to the review: It was funny to see that all the problems Steve had were solved at the managerial level and the culture change was so easy and straightforward (basically everyone started working in "the new way" immediately and there were no problems there). There were a couple of arguments here and there, but all the stakeholders were more than happy to listen to Steve's orders. I wonder if it is the same in reality. But it's a novel and the author wanted to explain the principles behind "The goal" and that purpose was definitely …
spoiler alert I read this book because it was presented to me as an updated and easier to read version of "The Goal". I can relate a big part of it with "The phoenix Project" which is more comprehensive, but admittedly a longer read. The Phoenix Project includes concepts from devops and lean manufacturing.
Back to the review: It was funny to see that all the problems Steve had were solved at the managerial level and the culture change was so easy and straightforward (basically everyone started working in "the new way" immediately and there were no problems there). There were a couple of arguments here and there, but all the stakeholders were more than happy to listen to Steve's orders. I wonder if it is the same in reality. But it's a novel and the author wanted to explain the principles behind "The goal" and that purpose was definitely achieved. It became very clear to me how every process can be improved by breaking it down into parts and looking for the bottlenecks. This was a major takeaway for me.
To sum up, the book is easy to read, ITers will relate to it easily and it explains well the bottleneck theory. But don't expect to get a lot more than that.
