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I've heard about Plan Do Check Act before, but isn't it just a glorified/marketing version of the whole scientific process? Design studies to test hypotheses (o
by pluies 16y ago
I've heard about Plan Do Check Act before, but isn't it just a glorified/marketing version of the whole scientific process? Design studies to test hypotheses (oftentimes educated guesses), conduct said studies, analyze the results to draw theories, and refine them with further studies.
The PDCA version only replaces the "advancing human knowledge" goal by "making money", but I think the similarities are quite striking.
- hugh3 16y agoPlan Do Check Act sounds like exactly the kind of crap that some jerk would come up with in order to sell business books. Take something bloody obvious that everybody knows, come up with some fancy-sounding (yet understandable to any six-year-old or middle manager) jargon to explain it, then somehow blow it up to two hundred pages with repetition, examples, case studies and testimonials.