Aravali Institute of Management

Presentation On Deming Cycle

Presented To: Ms. Mamta Sankhlecha

Presented By: Group 4

Deming Cycle
Deming cycle is popularly known as the PDCA cycle, and the it stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act It is an iterative cycle which guarantees improvements for the activity it has been applied to

Dr. William Edwards Deming is the founder of this concept

PDCA Cycle
The PDCA cycle can be applied to an activity or a set of activities that are planned in advance In the IT industry, it is mostly applied to the service management function The cycle is somewhat similar to Kaizen, where minor improvements are done at a time, and the cycle must be iterated to get the essence of it

How does it work?

Plan Any activity you need to undertake requires some planning The first step in the cycle is to prepare a plan which will consider all possible combinations of outcomes, risks, necessary resource requirements amongst others

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Do As the simple two letter word says, do what you have planned

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Check After you have done what was planned, stand back and observe Compare the results with the plan Analyze what else could have been done to make the output better

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Act The analysis conducted would provide pointers on what needs to be done to fill the bridge between what was planned and what was implemented And the improvements that were listed are implemented in this part of the cycle

Example of PDCA Cycle

Plan Lets say you are building a website First put down a plan on what you want to do along with rough sketches in a document Think thoroughly on various aspects of web designing, like the features you want to include, like adding a newsletter module, a contact form and so on Make sure that it is all in writing

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Do Whether you outsource it to a professional or do develop the website yourself is your choice As I said earlier, this is a very simple step But, the do part must reproduce what the plan step states

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Check After the website is developed Compare the plan with what you have on hand; there will be gaps which you need to bridge in the next step Apart from this, analyze for any improvements that can be made like adding Ajax forms instead of a normal one

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Document the gaps and the improvements that you wish to make in the same document

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Act Like the do step, perform the delta and the improvements listed in the document You have now completed one cycle of PDCA Remember that this cycle is an iterative one, and you can take up as many as you want to build a website that improves every time it rolls through the cycle

Thank You..