(2023-05-11) Chin Process Behaviour Charts More Than You Need To Know

Cedric Chin: Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know. This week’s Commoncog post is for members only; next week’s post will be free. Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know (members only) — We last talked about process behaviour charts in Part Two of the Becoming Data Driven in Business Series. In that piece, I introduced the idea from Statistical Process Control (SPC) that the way to become data driven is to first understand variation, and the secret weapon that SPC practitioners have is the process behaviour chart

This week’s essay is a deep dive into the process behaviour chart.

At the end of this week’s essay, I write that I don’t really know why this technique isn’t more popular. Amazon itself does not use XmR charts (Weekly Business Review) — or at least not widely (though Bryar and Carr mentions them in Working Backwards). They get to an understanding of variation through other means.

there are some crazy real world case studies in Donald Wheeler’s Making Sense of Data that go far beyond manufacturing.

Elsewhere On The Web

Anthony Bourdain’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Diaries — I somehow missed the memo that Bourdain was a huge BJJ enthusiast, and that he kept a log of sorts on Reddit. This came up in response to last week’s essay on Judo; I enjoyed every word

Why Don’t We Change? — Eric Nehrlich is an executive coach, and he told me last week that my ‘will’ problems in Judo are actually quite well known in coaching

Lessons Not Worth Learning — Will Larson, with something poignant and beautiful: My point is not that these lessons are wrong, they certainly are not wrong in many cases. That said, I think you should choose the beliefs that help you live a meaningful, ethical life.