PDCA Endurance™

Plan. Do. Check. Act. Endure

Tag: PDCA

  • Upward Spiral

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    Sometimes it may feel like you’re going in a circle and really the PDCA process works, it’s intended to be a cycle.  It’s important to remember that you are actually going on an upward spiral, even if it doesn’t always feel like it and sometimes your strength slides, you’re still approaching every workout, every week,…

  • Plan, Part 2: Training Plan

    Plan, Part 2: Training Plan

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    Michael
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    The first step of the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle is to plan.  This is a large step so I broke it into 2 parts.  In Part 1, we discussed the goals including planning at several levels.  In Part 2, we’re going to identify the steps we need to take on the way to our…

  • Act

    Act

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    Michael
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    The fourth step of the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle is to Act.  This refers to acting on the results you identified through the check practice.   After reviewing your feelings along with a number of performance indicators, things may not completely align, some will look good, some will not.

  • Check

    Check

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    Michael
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    The third step of the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle is to Check. After you’ve done the work, you need to check in and see how the work is progressing. The process wouldn’t work without any of the steps, though I believe this is the most important step. It’s where you really analyze what is…

  • Do

    Do

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    Michael
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    The second step of the Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle is to do.  This is simply doing the work you’ve planned.  Conceptually it is very simple, but of course this is one of the hardest steps of the process as well since you need to be motivated to get out and do the work.