Critical Mass

[Steven_S_Prevette@RL.gov]

I did not intend to follow up the previous success story so quickly, but
perhaps we really are reaching critical mass here at Hanford.

I have been doing the Red Beads for the past two days at an "Integrated
Safety Management System" workshop, which is to expose workers to the
current safety doctrine in the U.S. Dept of Energy.  As part of the
first day's presentations, I made the comment about budget analyses are
done strictly for the current fiscal year and any budget variance of
greater than 10% from plan must be "explained" and usually explained in
great detail.  I will turn this over to quoting an email I got today
from one of the people who attended that session.  This is a direct
quote, except where I have deleted two persons' names.:

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And so here I was just this minute, talking to a fellow PI [Performance
Indicator] forum friend from down the hall about how the cost and
schedule variances should be plotted on control charts to see what the
variance threshold REALLY should be. When along comes [name witheld], a
direct report to the company president, who was walking by and overheard
my comments. He came in the office and asked for a proposal with some
sample control charts to show [name deleted], the FDH Pres.  He says he
is looking for GOOD ideas and this sounded like a good one!

. . .

 GO CONTROL CHARTS!! Control charts show the truth and the truth will
set us free!

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Steve Prevette
FDH ESH Planning and Performance
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer
steven_s_prevette@rl.gov
509-373-9371
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