Adail Retamal has introduced a variant of the TOC Thinking Processes using a color scheme to color the trees, TOC in Color. He's derived this work on his experience with Feature Driven Development and Coad's Color Modeling. Adail believes that adding color to trees has enabled him to communicate the content of a tree more quickly, to form the tree initially more quickly and that the quality of the information contained in the tree is higher. These are very similar findings to our original use of color in UML domain modeling, where we found that color enhanced the model, helped it communicate better, improved the quality of models particularly with novice and journeyman level modelers, and enabled as much as a 10x speed improvement in generating the models initially. If you are a fan of the TOC Thinking Process, check out Adail's work and consider adding color to your CRT, FRT, Cloud, PRT, NBR, and TT. Technorati tag: Theory+Constraints, Adail+Retamal, UML+color, Peter+Coad, FDD, Feature+Driven+Development

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