Constraint Theory on Cities: Skylines
In 1984 Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt introduced, with his novel “ The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement ”, the theory of constraints. Theory of constraints emphasises on calibrating a pipeline of work using as a metric only its total output and not the productivity of each component. The user of the theory has to identify its output, its input and the major bottleneck in its pipeline. This fundamental theory was also depicted in the novel “ The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win ”, which was meant to be the devops flavor of the novel “The Goal”. In this novel, a new assigned IT Manager has to deliver a new project which is supposed to give to its company a competitive advantage on the market. While doing this he has to sustain the life cycle of all the IT projects this organization runs. I read the two books with little time difference between them, quite recently. I started being a fan of this theory and I was wondering if such a theory could