Project management is everywhere—the term is experiencing a moment. People have come to realize that the discipline of project management offers proven methodologies and tools to get their jobs done more productively and efficiently.

In fact, project management is such a broad topic that it integrates other management ideas and applies them. One such idea is the theory of constraints. While the theory of constraints is typically used in manufacturing, it can be helpful in controlling most any project.

What Is the Theory of Constraints?

Basically, the theory of constraints says that a number of constraints prevents any management or manufacturing system from achieving more of its goals. There is always at least one constraint or limiting factor that creates a bottleneck, and the theory of constraints uses five focusing steps to identify that constraint and then improve it so that it isn’t a bottleneck anymore.

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