PDSA – Plan, Do, Study, Act – the iterative four-stage thinking model for delivering change.

Contrary to common sense, this robust framework actually begins with ‘Study’, PMI Senior Consultant Damion Albinson reminds us.  Study the situation and involve the people who operate the process to generate hypotheses with the potential for improvement.  However, the sometimes uncomfortable truth is that disproving what we thought sounded perfectly plausible is when the real learning happens…

Join Damion as he reveals the subtleties of the PDSA model, and how you may already have the disconfirming evidence you need. 

Hungry for more on PDSA?  Check out these related resources: 

• PDSA your Work, your Project, your Programme: On-Demand Webinar
• Agile Improvement: Myth or Magic?  On-Demand Webinar
• Blinded by Blame, Restricted from Wisdom: using PDSA to move beyond a blame culture
• Tools and Models Useful for Change

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