The Book of TameFlow: Theory of Constraints Applied to Knowledge-Work Management

This book describes advanced applications of the TameFlow Approach. The TameFlow Approach is a pragmatic systems-thinking approach for creating breakthrough performance-innovation in knowledge-intensive digital-businesses. TameFlow is an original management paradigm that helps goal-oriented businesses to focus on the fewest things that make the greatest impact on performance, leading to happier people and higher profits, without compromising sustainability, quality or humanity. Reading this book, you will learn how to apply the Theory of Constraints to knowledge-work, and in particular to handle coordination, synchronization and prioritization in "PEST" environments, where you have multiple Projects or Products; multiple Events or deadlines; multiple Stakeholders; and multiple Teams. Focus is on producing business outcomes and customer value with tangible bottom line results. The TameFlow Approach provides business agility to change direction at speed and at scale by dramatically improving organizational performance beyond that of mainstream Agile or "agile-like" methods and frameworks (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Scrum@Scale, Enterprise Scrum, etc.), and providing new means to tame the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) of modern knowledge-work.