Develop a project management system that will allow you to conduct one-off projects with ease. Improve your work flow with Kanban. Increase productivity with Agile, Scrum and Kanban. Learn about the 80/20 Rule and increase your productivity and sales. Find your project constraint with the Theory of Constraints. Understand the optimum quantities required at each stage of your production stage with Local Optima. Kaizen will teach you how to improve your project flow in incremental steps. Give your staff confidence in the project by building important routines with the PDCA cycle (Plan Do Check Act). Are you using project management system software like the Critical Path Method? Take the time to learn about the Critical Chain Project Management technique – it will dramatically speed up projects. Heard about the Drum Buffer Rope techniques? They are 3 of the major techniques used to optimise any production system. Understand the merits to reducing the size of production batches with the Small Batches Tool.
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SM5.0 Theory of Constraint (TOC) Find Remove Bottleneck
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an important optimising technique that focuses on improving the throughput of work at the (usually) single bottleneck or constraint in the workflow. This Skills Module draws together a number of the 12Faces articles on the subject. One research project demonstrated that 89% of improvement...