Chapter 6
Lean Project Management Using the PDCA Cycle
The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle has been around for several decades and remains a popular tool to improve quality. It also serves as an excellent road map for performing Lean in an enterprise both as an overall framework and also as a specific tool to improve a process, procedure, or operation. This chapter presents the PDCA cycle from the perspective of the former. In some places, PDSA rather than PDCA is used, meaning plan, do, study, act.
6.1 PDCA Cycle and Project Management Basics
Perhaps the biggest strength of the PDCA cycle is its simplicity. Plan is determining the problem or issue to resolve and then building a road map to resolve it. Do is executing the plan. Check is measuring ...
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