Dr. Deming on Variation with John Willis

The third of a three part conversation on Dr. Deming with John Willis.

John Willis is a coauthor of the DevOps Handbook and host of the Profound podcast dedicated to discussing Dr. Deming.

Adam and John dial in on one of the core tenants of the System of Profound knowledge: understanding variation. They discuss special and common cause variation and how to deal with each. Also, why is that most people have not heard of Deming when he's such an impact on lean theory.

Free Resources

• Toyota Kata Pocket Guide
• The Flow Collective
• DevOps Email Course
• Project to Product Email Course
• War & Peace & IT Pocket Guide

Links

• Adam Hawkins on Twitter
• Adam Hawkins on LinkedIn
• Adam Hawkins' website
• John Willis on Twitter
• John Willis on LinkedIn
• Profound Podcast
• The New Economics by Dr. Deming (Book)
• Out of the Crisis
• The DevOps Handbook
• 12 Days to Deming (Free course)
• Variation (Small Batches Episode #49)

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