Plan, Do, Study, Act for Committees
The Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Method is an organized way to improve and refine how you and your committee operates. The method has four steps that a repeatedly used to effect and refine your objectives.
PDSA steps
The four steps of PDSA are completed in sequence, and repeated using the results of the previous attempt to refine and improve the next attempt. The steps are:
- Plan: Establish the objectives and work needed to deliver the results you expect. Make the expected result your focus.
- Do: Implement your changes, usually on a small or modest scale.
- Study: Measure how your expected result matches the actual result of your change.
- Act: Determine if the change you found was what you were looking. Ask yourself if this was an improvement or not and if what aspect of your change or changes were effective and which were not. Using this information you can restart the processes at Step 1. Plan to further refine and improve how you reach your objectives.
The editable worksheet (see "Related links") provides a simple form to write down your plan, results, etc. for each iteration.
