PDCA ( plan – do – check – act or plan – do – check – adjust ) is an iterative four-step management method used in business for the control and continuous improvement of processes and products.

# PDCA — plan, do, check, act cycle for quality control purposes.

ITIL was built around a process-model based view of controlling and managing operations often credited to W. Edwards Deming and his plan-do-check-act ( PDCA ) cycle.

ISO / IEC 27001 therefore incorporates the typical " Plan-Do-Check-Act " ( PDCA ), or Deming cycle, approach:

Certainly, the PDCA approach can bring us closer to whatever goal we choose.

In the United States a PDCA approach is usually associated with a sizable project involving numerous people's time, and thus managers want to see large " breakthrough " improvements to justify the effort expended.

A fundamental principle of the scientific method and PDCA is iteration — once a hypothesis is confirmed ( or negated ), executing the cycle again will extend the knowledge further.

The 2002 version of BS 7799-2 introduced the Plan-Do-Check-Act ( PDCA ) ( Deming quality assurance model ), aligning it with quality standards such as ISO 9000.

* PDCA ( Plan-do-check-act ), a management method used in business

The concept of PDCA is based on the scientific method, as developed from the work of Francis Bacon ( Novum Organum, 1620 ).

In Six Sigma programs, the PDCA cycle is called " define, measure, analyze, improve, control " ( DMAIC ).

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