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Increase Your Awareness by Predicting Results in the Planning Stage

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Read more… Author information Bill Fox Bill Fox is a plane-flying project management and performance improvement consultant. Edwards Deming' Connect with Bill on his member profile , his website , LinkedIn or Twitter @Bi11Fox. Leadership Coaching Leadership Development improvement PDSA W.

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Comparing Lean Thinking and Dr. Deming’s Management Ideas

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Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. 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.

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Purpose: To Benefit All Stakeholders

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Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. I am glad to see the Business Roundtable agreeing with Dr. Deming, a few decades later. I suggest that those looking to put these ideas into action learn about how Deming’s ideas create a management system that does this well.

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Understanding Variation and Appreciating Variety

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Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. Dr. Deming understood you didn’t use the same improvement thinking every time you wanted to improve.

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

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Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. I think the “inspection” in code reviews is different enough that we can use code reviews as a valuable tool for managing software development. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit.

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Educate New Managers on Their New Responsibilities

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Far too often companies promote employees into management positions and expect them to fulfill the obligations of their new position without helping prepare them to meet their new responsibilities. Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer.

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Ron Moen and Cliff Norman Discuss the Evolution of Deming’s Management Ideas

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In the most recent Deming Institute podcast Ron Moen and Cliff Norman , of Associates in Process Improvement (API), discuss their paper (to be published in 2016), “Evolution of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge” and the “journey of learning” Dr. Deming and they have experienced.

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