<P> PDCA was made popular by W. Edwards Deming , who is considered by many to be the father of modern quality control ; however , he always referred to it as the `` Shewhart cycle '' . Later in Deming 's career , he modified PDCA to `` Plan , Do , Study , Act '' ( PDSA ) because he felt that `` check '' emphasized inspection over analysis . The PDSA cycle was used to create the model of know - how transfer process , and other models . </P>
who is the originator of the plan-do-check-act model of performance improvement
W. Edwards Deming