These tools can help you manage an improvement project:

Gantt chart: a bar chart that shows the tasks of a project, when each must take place, how long each will take and completion status.

PDCA Cycle (plan-do-check-act) or PDSA (plan-do-study-act): a four-step model for carrying out change that can be repeated again and again for continuous improvement.

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Excerpted from Nancy R. Tague’s The Quality Toolbox, Second Edition, ASQ Quality Press, 2004.