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- Juran's Quality Trilogy - A quality management framework comprising three processes: quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement.
- Incremental Innovation - Small, continuous improvements to existing products, processes, or services.
- Retrospective - A structured team meeting held after a project or iteration to reflect on what went well, what didn't, and how to improve.
- Iterative and Incremental Note-Taking - A methodology that treats notes as living documents refined through continuous small improvements over time.
- Total Quality Management - A management philosophy focused on continuous improvement of all organizational processes through employee involvement and customer satisfaction.
- Networked Improvement Communities - Engelbart's concept of collaborative networks where organizations share innovations and improvement practices to accelerate collective capability.
- PDCA Cycle - A four-step iterative management method (Plan-Do-Check-Act) for continuous improvement of processes and products.
- 8D Problem Solving - A structured eight-discipline methodology for investigating complex problems, identifying root causes, and implementing permanent corrective actions.
- ABC Model of Improvement - Engelbart's framework categorizing work into three levels: doing the work (A), improving how you work (B), and improving your improvement process (C).
- Personal Control System - A meta-system for controlling your productivity systems through continuous review, improvement, and self-regulation practices.
- Reflective Practice - The deliberate process of thinking about and learning from experience to improve professional practice and personal effectiveness.
- Kaizen Group - A team of people dedicated to applying continuous improvement principles to products, processes, or organizations.
- Lessons Learned - The practice of capturing knowledge gained from experience to improve future performance and avoid repeating mistakes.
- After-Action Review - A structured debriefing process to analyze what happened, why it happened, and how to improve, originally developed by the U.S. Army.
- Sprint Retrospective - A team meeting at the end of each sprint to reflect on process and identify improvements.
- Quality Circle - A small group of workers who meet regularly to identify, analyze, and solve work-related problems.
- Corrective and Preventive Action - A systematic approach to investigating nonconformities, implementing fixes to eliminate root causes, and taking proactive steps to prevent future occurrences.
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