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100

He is considered "The Father of the Theory of Constraints?.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

100
A point of congestion or blockage along a production line.

What is a bottleneck?

100

Identify the system's constraints.

What is Step 1 of the Theory of Constraints?

100

Two words that finish off the saying "A chain is only as strong as its _____ _____."

What is weakest link?

200

The main character of Eliyahu M. Goldratt's Introduction to The Theory of Constsraints as well as The Goal.

Who is Alex Rogo?

200
A series of steps or actions taken in order to accomplish a goal.

What is a process?

200

Go back to Step 1. 

What is Step 5 in the Theory of Constraints?

200

The location of the airport that found the solution to their problem was simply changing the location of the arrival gate.

Where is Houston?

300

The professor that taught us about the Theory of Constraints.

Who is Dr. Mike Dixon?

300

A technique DevOps and others use to visually analyze the flow in order to identify and alleviate bottlenecks.

What is value stream mapping?

300

Decide how to exploit the system's constraints.

What is Step 2 in the Theory of Constraints?

300

A pile-up of this is a clear warning flag that you might have a bottleneck in your system.

What is inventory?

400

The founder of the company Autopilot, that used throughput accounting to find and alleviate bottlenecks to make his company successful.

Who is Matt McCune?

400

The longest process of all.

What is a cycle time?

400

Elevate the system's constraints.

What is Step 4 of the Theory of Constraints?

400

The main goal of this software company is to eliminate the largest constraint first.

What is DevOps?

500

The manager of Malouf that let me visit their warehouse so I could learn more about the Theory of Constraints.

Who is Brian Blotter?

500

One of the three factors McCune explained in throughput accounting. Examples would include paying the employees and paying for the electricity of the building.

What are operating expenses?

500

Subordinate everything else to the previous decision.

What is Step 3 in the Theory of Constraints?

500

The labeled chain that was trying to be strengthened in the video, even though it was not the weakest link.

What was the marketing chain?

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