Project Management-PDCA approach

Post date: Feb 09, 2013 3:35:15 PM

A popular tool for doing project management is the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle. This is often referred to as the Deming Cycle or the Deming Wheel after its proponent, W Edwards Deming. It is also sometimes called the Shewhart Cycle.

Deming is best known as a pioneer of the quality management approach and for introducing statistical process control techniques for manufacturing to the Japanese, who used them with great success. He believed that a key source of production quality lay in having clearly defined, repeatable processes. And so the PDCA Cycle as an approach to change and problem solving is very much at the heart of Deming's quality-driven philosophy.

The four phases in the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle involve:

• • Plan: Identifying and analyzing the problem.

  • Do: Developing and testing a potential solution.

  • Check: Measuring how effective the test solution was, and analyzing whether it could be improved in any way.

  • Act: Implementing the improved solution fully.

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Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Project Management-To Implement new Ideas in a Controlled way