Water Engineering Inancient Civilizations: 5,000 Years of History

ISBN-13: 9781138474475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Pierre-Louis Viollet

Opis

This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt‘s novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In perhaps Eli‘s most readable book yet, two of the established principles of project management, the engineering estimate and project milestones, are found wanting and dismissed, and other established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical, yet clear, understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced, and Project Buffers, Feeding Buffers, Limit Multitasking, Improved Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability versus accumulated variability so deftly you won‘t even be aware of learning about them - they ll just seem like more common sense! Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with projects. If you use block diagrams, drawings or charts to keep track of your activities, you are managing a project - and this book is for you.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I 4,000 years of hydraulic development in the East From the era of the early cultivators to the conquests of Alexander the Great Chapter 1. Hydraulics and the birth of civilization Chapter 2. From Mesopotamia to the Syrian shore: the land of water pioneers Chapter 3. Ancient Egypt and the Arabia Felix (in modern Yemen), the rhythm of the flood seasons Chapter 4. The maritime civilizations of the Aegean Sea: urban and agricultural hydraulics Part II The Empires of the Builders Chapter 5. Mathematicians and inventors of Alexandria and the Hellenistic world Chapter 6. Hydraulics in the Roman Empire: driving force of development and symbol of civilization Chapter 7. Beyond Bibliographic References Rome, the East and the Arab world Chapter 8. Rivers, canals, and hydraulic technology in China Chapter 9. The mills of the Middle Ages Conclusion Chronological Table

O autorze

Pierre-Louis Viollet