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Standard Operating Procedure - A documented set of step-by-step instructions for carrying out routine operations consistently and efficiently.
Make or Buy Decision - Strategic choice between producing goods or services internally versus purchasing them from external suppliers.
Pull System - A workflow method where new work is started only when there is downstream capacity, rather than being pushed based on forecasts or schedules.
Process Mapping - A visual representation technique that documents the steps, inputs, outputs, and decision points within a workflow or business process.
Lead Time - The total elapsed time from when a request or order is placed until it is fulfilled, serving as a key metric in lean, agile, and supply chain management.
Total Quality Management - A management philosophy focused on continuous improvement of all organizational processes through employee involvement and customer satisfaction.
Business Continuity - Planning and preparation to ensure critical business functions continue during and after a disaster.
Value Stream - The complete sequence of activities required to deliver a product or service from initial concept or customer request through to delivery of value.
Cycle Time - The elapsed time from when work actively begins on an item until it is completed, serving as a key flow metric in Lean and Kanban.
Value Chain - Framework for analyzing the activities a company performs to deliver a valuable product or service.
Process Standardization - The practice of establishing uniform methods and procedures for performing tasks to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across an organization.
Risk Mitigation - The process of reducing the likelihood or impact of identified risks through preventive and corrective actions.
DevOps Manifesto - Principles promoting collaboration between development and operations teams for faster, more reliable software delivery.
Supply Chain - The interconnected network of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in producing and delivering a product from raw materials to the end customer.
Bottleneck - A point of congestion in a system that limits overall throughput, where capacity constraints restrict the flow of work or information.
Runbook - A documented set of procedures for routine operations, troubleshooting, and incident response.
Business Impact Analysis - A systematic process for identifying and evaluating the potential effects of disruptions on critical business operations.
Drum-Buffer-Rope - A scheduling and flow management methodology from the Theory of Constraints where the constraint sets the pace, buffers protect it, and rope controls upstream work release.
DevOps - A set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and deliver software continuously.
Process Optimization - The practice of improving existing processes to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance quality of outcomes.
Outsourcing - Practice of delegating business functions to external providers to reduce costs or access specialized expertise.
Operational Resilience - An organization's ability to prevent, adapt to, respond to, and recover from disruptions to continue delivering critical services.
Configuration Drift - Gradual divergence of a system's actual configuration from its intended or documented state over time.
Business Process Management - A systematic approach to improving an organization's workflows by analyzing, modeling, optimizing, and automating business processes.
Throughput - The number of work items completed per unit of time, measuring a system's delivery rate in Lean, Kanban, and operations management.
Flow Efficiency - The ratio of active work time to total lead time, revealing how much time work items spend waiting versus being actively worked on.
Problem Management - The practice of identifying and managing the underlying causes of incidents to prevent recurrence and minimize impact.
DevSecOps - A DevOps approach that integrates security practices throughout the entire software development lifecycle, treating security as code.
Little's Law - A mathematical theorem stating that the average number of items in a system equals the average arrival rate multiplied by the average time each item spends in the system.
Incident Management - The process of identifying, responding to, and resolving unplanned disruptions to restore normal service as quickly as possible.

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