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Comparing Lean Thinking and Dr. Deming’s Management Ideas

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This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. This is one good tactic to use when introducing new management ideas. In the previous post I discussed that idea in more detail. I don’t see much value in such criticisms.

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Jim Benson: There is No Instant Pudding, You have to Show Up to Disrupt

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Jim Benson’s presentation at The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2015 annual conference: There is No Instant Pudding, You have to Show Up to Disrupt. So you would have what I would call clarity around the companies mission and goals, which Deming would have called constancy of purpose. Understanding is emergent.

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People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed

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Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” So perhaps you see how quickly a company is able to adapt the software they use to meet their needs. People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. See a longer quote with more context.

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

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Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Do we need to update a software development checklist?

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Educate New Managers on Their New Responsibilities

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Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer. A company with a Deming based management system actually will provide relevant education and experience to all employees that will benefit new managers (much more than most organizations do).

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Systems Thinking: Feedback Loops

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Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. In this context the most common item to think of is Deming’s diagram of an organization as a system. Going into this area was much more common in the Deming community decades ago (when W. That is a powerful diagram.

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What to Do To Create a Continual Improvement Culture

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James Lawther shared his ideas on what not to do to get things started. Many of the better management methods proposed by W. Edwards Deming address this issue. This month the ASQ Influential Voices discussion explores what to do and avoid in order to create a performance culture? Culture isn’t what you intend it to be.

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