Tag: pdca
Sunday, 15 August 2010
PDCA-powered learning
Posted by Simon Baker
Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle is a scientific method for problem resolution. But it isn't just about resolving problems in a timely fashion. Used properly it raises awareness of context in order to solve a problem by identifying and removing its root cause so the problem won't recur and thus improve the long-term performance of the system.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Driving continuous improvement with PDCA and measurements
Posted by Simon Baker
Continuous improvement has always been an implicit part of being agile and with the growing awareness of work by Deming, amongst others, plus the increasing popularity of Lean thinking, it is rightly becoming the center of attention. And yet, I suspect much of the continuous improvement that happens may or may not be actual improvement. I wonder if most of it proves to be negligible in the grand scheme of things.
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