Finding Constraints in a Project Organization

After hearing an excellent interview on the prepcast, thanks Cornelius, with Allan Elder of No Limits Leadership I was inspired to see if maybe we could find "Herbie's" in our project based organization. And of course by fixing them create more throughput. This isn´t the approach that Allan talks about which is focused on the improvement in each project but he does mention that the technique can be used in almost any setting. So I suppose this should work aswell.

Following the scientific method my hypothesis is if we can find where the most projects are waiting around then we will locate constraints.

So I went to the task of identifying all of our project processes against knowledge area thinking that we have a constrained capacity in each knowledge area.

Now this is pretty basic so this is the first step of this socratic method. So I suppose so we will have to see how the story develops. You can find my spreadsheet here.