which is geared to help organizations
continually achieve their goals. The main focus of this theory is to determine the
most important constraint of a production system as the main driver of system
performance and to give guidelines to protect this constraint in order to prevent
loss of performance. Although the original book discussed the TOC in a production
environment, it is a general management philosophy that can be applied to the basic
project scheduling principles, amongst many others, discussed in this section. It
basically consists of three steps, as follows