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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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