PDSA

I will write about new method I learned this week. It is called PDSA method. It stands for Plan, Do, Study, Act and it means exactly that.

PDSA method is used to help implement innovations and make changes and observe them. Plan part of this means that you should understand the problem and try to find opportunity in the problem. You should select your team and define all parts of problem or issue. Do part means that you should try to do something related to that problem, to make some change in the way things are done. After that you should Study. This part means that you observe results made from changes you made and trying to find the best solution. After analyzing the results, you should make final plan of action and to Act. In this part you should simply implement the solution you came up with as the best one, and if you did your PDSA good, things should be better. In PDSA, you can use lot of different charts and tables to record your results and to see what is the best solution. Using those charts you can follow the results and changes and decide what is good or bad.