http://www.itskeptic.org/taxonomy/term/394/0 en http://www.itskeptic.org/content/limitations-industrial-manufacturing-paradigm-including-lean-and-toc <p>Be careful how we apply industrial manufacturing paradigms, including Lean and Theory of Constraints(ToC), to IT. Linear stream flow models only work in IT (or, I suspect, manufacturing), at a close scale. Zoom out and they fail us, its not linear any more, not even to an approximation. </p> <p><a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/limitations-industrial-manufacturing-paradigm-including-lean-and-toc" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.itskeptic.org/content/limitations-industrial-manufacturing-paradigm-including-lean-and-toc#comments flow lean ToC http://www.itskeptic.org/crss/node/2628 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:44:07 +0000 skeptic 2628 at http://www.itskeptic.org http://www.itskeptic.org/content/why-theory-constraints-seems-poor-model-it <p>I am no expert but I worry that the Theory of Constraints is a bad model for IT.<br /> Our systems are networks not linear flows. <a href="http://projecttoproduct.org/" target="_blank">Mik Kersten's new book</a> explores this.</p> <p><a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/why-theory-constraints-seems-poor-model-it" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.itskeptic.org/content/why-theory-constraints-seems-poor-model-it#comments ToC http://www.itskeptic.org/crss/node/2592 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:35:14 +0000 skeptic 2592 at http://www.itskeptic.org