Does this look familiar?
The Plan Do Study Act Cycle
http://www.tin.nhs.uk/index.asp?pgid=1130
Clearly this has been in use by the NHS for quite some time.
It’s also known as the Deming or Shewhart Cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA
W. Edwards Deming is the godfather of the Quality Management movement and a man I studied in great detail (but have since totally forgotten) in my Business and Quality Management degree, which I hated. I find it very amusing that half the reason I got into software development was because I was so disillusioned by my degree course and now I can’t go anywhere without hearing about the likes of Shigeo Shingo, TQM and JIT. The difference is now I understand exactly what they where talking about.
