Re: Human Processes Absent ?

[TQNELSON@aol.com]

David wrote: "Do you really see the 14 points as a METHOD?"

Of course not! Neither did WED. 

In fact, there is no METHOD!!!! The 14 points are check points/milestones to 
be understood, and applied, IAW with the SoPK to develop YOUR METHOD.

YOUR METHOD will be/must be YOUR METHOD, different than any one else's/any 
another organization's. WED was adamant on this, "YOU CAN'T COPY!" Indeed 
that was the basis for his (and some of the rest of our) opposition to 
"benchmarking" as so much nonsense (unless your a consultant, and then it 
sells well, and you can run before the truth is known).

For WED to have presented "A" method would have been to directly contradict 
his own teachings, especially on Systems.

Added to this are, naturally, the concepts of never-ending-improvement and 
common/system cause variation that says there never will be "A" method, just 
a series of continually changing methods (some minor, some major ones totally 
replacing previous methods). When that change stops, so has improvement.

Del Nelson
American River College

When "We, the People..." are replaced by dollars, profits, and greed,
It is time to start over
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