The Goal

The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Hidden Meters

Building observability changes what you see.

Out on the trail, you could tell the slower kids by the gaps in the line. The slower the kid, the greater the distance between him and the kid in front of him. ... "If we’ve got a Herbie, it’s probably going to have a huge pile of work-in-process sitting in front of it."
Pacemaker Principle

Constraints in one part dictate the whole.

He is the one who is governing throughput for the troop as a whole. In fact, whoever is moving the slowest in the troop is the one who will govern throughput.