Chapter 13

How to Share and Communicate Measurements

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Charting

Managing to the measure is often facilitated by graphically displaying the data. There are a number of charts that can help the team share what is happening. We will cover two of the most valuable charts:

  Pareto charts

  Charting: Statistical Process Control

Pareto Charts

Pareto charts are bar charts that display the most frequently occurring variable to the far left, and bars are displayed in descending order. A helpful feature of Pareto charts ...

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