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# How to identify a bottleneck?
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/how-to-identify-a-bottleneck/
- Published: 2016-03-23T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-18T12:50:03.000Z
- Description: Identifying a bottleneck/constraint is a first step towards enabling the system to achieve its goal.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Theory of Constraints, #The Lean Presentation

Identifying a bottleneck/constraint is a first step towards enabling the system to achieve its goal.

Watch Clarke Ching, of [Rolling Rocks Downhill](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1505446511?ref=pesec.no) fame, and Philip Marris, of [Marris Consulting](https://www.marris-consulting.com/?ref=pesec.no), discuss:

- how to identify a bottlenecks in production and product development;
- critical chain project management; and
- what is a good constraint.

You can see more videos by Marris Consulting [here](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2Mx7uyErhCUGIh00ZLQiQ?ref=pesec.no).

*This post was originally written for [The Lean Presentation](https://www.pesec.no/the-lean-presentation/).*