Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)
The continuous improvement cycle underlying the management-system clauses: Plan (Context, Leadership, Planning, Support), Do (Operation), Check (Performance evaluation), Act (Improvement). The same never-finishing loop the NIST framework describes as an operating system. (see Topic 6.2)
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A continuous improvement cycle formalized in quality management standards including ISO 9001 and structurally present in ISO/IEC 27001's information security management requirements. This topic's rebuild method (classify and rank findings, implement fixes, re-attack and measure, hand off the lesson) is a specific application of PDCA to adversarial data governance findings, not an invented process.
The continuous improvement cycle underlying the management-system clauses: Plan (Context, Leadership, Planning, Support), Do (Operation), Check (Performance evaluation), Act (Improvement). The same never-finishing loop the NIST framework describes as an operating system. (see Topic 6.2)
A continuous improvement cycle, developed from Walter Shewhart's work and popularized by W. Edwards Deming from the 1950s onward, used in this topic as the model for why a scorecard itself needs a standing review cadence rather than being built once and left unexamined.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Measuring quality so executives act: the scorecard that survives a board meeting · Quality as Physics, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Governance that survives: rebuilding the estate's defenses so the next attack finds less · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- ISO/IEC 42001: standing up an AI management system without drowning in it · The World's Rulebooks, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.