Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010). Deming and Software Development (2014) *. Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). * 94% Belongs to the System (2013).

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. He was frustrated at not being able to apply the ideas he had learned and so moved on within 3 years to move to a smaller company. Scott Dalgleish.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2015

Jim Benson, founding partner of the Modus Cooperendi and co-author of Personal Kanban is the guest on this Deming Podcast. In the podcast Jim discusses how to apply Deming ideas to knowledge work. Jim helps people take those principles and help people visualize their knowledge work (software development etc.)

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In that article he explores the importance of Dr. Deming’s ideas today. Edwards Deming sent Peter Senge on his book, and which Senge included in his introduction to the Fifth Discipline : Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. He quotes from the response W.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). All Data is Wrong, Some is Useful (2015). Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If people asked Dr. Deming what they should do if they tried to get their company to adopt Deming’s ideas on management and the company wouldn’t he often suggested working on their resume and applying to other companies. View your organization with an understanding of Deming’s management ideas.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Restructure training.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

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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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle (2012). Deming and Software Development (2014). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). 94% Belongs to the System (2013).

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Deming Institute

MARCH 19, 2018

TJ Gokcen,CEO of Acquate , shared a presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar on Aim as a System. Ideas such as culture and aim are powerful but they are difficult to appreciate and often people have a bad impression of the value because the implementation is often so poor.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

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. But systems thinking has an entire body of knowledge that is useful. Edwards Deming was with us) than it is now.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

A system comprising of interconnected processes that act as a tool people use to execute their work. Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#. I am so glad the ideas in my post resonated well with you.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I could see it would be somewhat useful but I didn’t really understand the benefits of personal communication. I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). And something done before the internet was in widespread use.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

James Lawther shared his ideas on what not to do to get things started. Edwards Deming address this issue. Sadly the difference between giving lip service to ideas and actually doing what is required is so vast few organizations do a decent job of creating cultures that are focused on customer focused continual improvement.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

of meetings are useful or harmful depending on the circumstances. This is similar to Deming’s ideas on management, I don’t believe their is a recipe to follow. And even without an agenda this is often useful. At the same time the right meetings are very useful. There are principles that are universal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

But how data are used in each decision-making process is completely different. Managers use cost-related data as an objective input for decision making, since they consider it both reliable and reasonably predictable. Here data are used mainly as a tool for persuasion among managers. Both types are meant to increase margins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). Here's this new approach.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. The benefit of this is: costs decrease because of less rework, fewer mistakes, fewer delays, and better use of time and materials; productivity improves; market share increases with better quality and prices. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Risk assessment.

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