On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Francis J. Lacoste <[email protected]> wrote: > On October 7, 2009, Jonathan Lange wrote: >> > There is a great method from Lean and Project Management called >> > Plan-Do-Check-Act, or PDCA for short. The mail lays out 'P' and 'D' very >> > well, it just needs 'C' ('A' comes later). >> >> Presumably they distinguish between doing and acting in some way >> hitherto unknown to the wider English speaking community? >> > > Well :-) > > I'm guessing they use two synonyms to distinguish the first actions ('Do') > which is about implementing the Plan, from the seconds which are about what > needs to be done after the 'Check'. > > Maybe 'PDC' with an infinite sign would have been more consise (not sure it > would have been easier to understand though). >
Ahh ok. FWIW, my grade two teacher Mrs Schaeffer taught us the problem solving method of "See; Plan; Do; Check". :) jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
