This is the third episode in a three-part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis. Adam and John dial in on one of the core tenets of the System of Profound knowledge: understanding variation. They discuss special and common cause variation and how to deal with each. Also, why have most people not heard of Deming when he has such an impact on lean theory?

John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.

The Deming Rabbit Hole:

• ☕️ Small Batches #100: Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #84: Dr. Deming
• ☕️ Small Batches #67: The Red Beads (Deming's experiment to introduce SPok)
• ☕️ Small Batches #49: Variation
• ☕️ Small Batches #50: Introducing Dr. Deming with John Willis
• ☕️ Small Batches #51: System of Profound Knowledge with John Willis
• 📘 Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge
• 📘 The New Economics
• 📘 The Essential Deming
• 📘 Out of the Crisis
• 🎙️The Profound Podcast