Glossary

PDCA

Also called: Plan-Do-Check-Act · Deming cycle

A four-step improvement cycle: plan, do, check, act. Here it translates into interpreting indicators and forming a hypothesis, adjusting in a controlled environment, validating end-to-end and…

A four-step improvement cycle: plan, do, check, act. Here it translates into interpreting indicators and forming a hypothesis, adjusting in a controlled environment, validating end-to-end and comparing, and finally approving, deploying and updating governance.

The phase most often skipped is check, and without it the cycle stops being one: you plan, you do, and you plan again on the impression that it worked.