COMPARISON WITH OTHER QUALITY APPROACHES
Plan-Do-Check-Act
- A quality improvement process based upon a feedback cycle for optimizing a single process model / production line
Total Quality Management
- A management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction based on the participation of all members of an organization
SEI Capability Maturity Model
- Staged process improvement based upon assessment with regard to a set of key process areas; goal is to reach “level 5” which represents a continually improving state