Theory of Constraints Projects Checklist

Theory of Constraints Checklist

Checklist to be used to deploy a sequence of improvement projects to address a resource constraint in a system.

Mark all that apply.

What is/are your system's resource constraint(s)?
In what ways can you exploit the system's constraint? What projects can you deploy to minimize the waste of the constraint?
In what ways can you subordinate everything else to the above projects that target the constraint? What projects can you deploy to maximize throughput of the constraint?
In what ways can you elevate, or lift the restriction, of the constraint? What projects can provide additional resources to the constraint?
Through these steps has your system's constraint been addressed? If so, return to the first question.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt. "The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean". (North River Press, 1990), p. 59-63.