Out of the Crisis

And I'm Jeffrey Sherman.

And today we're gonna talk about Out of the Crisis by, uh, Deming.

So this is another book that is not about software engineering particularly, or at all, uh, 'cause it's from the early '80s, and it's a classic and it is still very relevant to software engineering and ever more relevant than, uh, even more relevant t-today than it used to be.

Uh, and if you've never r- or you don't know who Deming is, he had this amazing career where in the '30s he basically invented statistical sampling to help with the U.S. Census.

Cool.

And then in the '50s, he went to Japan and he basically had all the leaders of Japan, all the economic, r- factory people from Japan, he explained statistical sampling to them and helped them invent just-in-time delivery systems.

And then in the '80s, when he was like 80, or '70s, uh, he wrote this book, Out of the Crisis, uh, about how American manufacturing was in the dumps and why it was in the dumps.

Uh, and he came back, he got called in by Ford.

So, uh, uh, I, I should have mentioned, uh, you know, a, a particular person, uh, at that time.

Uh, this was the lady who was, uh, working on behalf of MIT CAES, Center for Advanced Engineering Study, who they are the people who originally published Out of the Crisis and The New Economics.

And if you know, The New Economics second edition, uh, came out in ninety-four, March ninety-four, after Dr. Deming had passed away.

And that's when, uh, you know, my early days in, in the Deming world, and I was, uh, when the internet came in, and I was sending out emails to people I knew, um, might've seen, uh, my-- whose pictures I saw on the net, right? Uh, including, uh, you know, and me and to Henry.

Right.

Right? And, uh, so later on, it's, I think it was Bill Latzko who, uh, told, told Deming to use the word leadership.

And so in, in the 1986 edition in Out of the Crisis, he brought in adopt and institute leadership, and he said the aim of leadership should be to help people and machines do a better job.

And he elaborated this a bit more in the 1990 edition, saying, "Adopt and institute leadership for the management of people, recognizing their different abilities, capabilities, and aspirations." And then he adds, "The aim of leadership should be to help people, machines, and gadgets do a better job.

You're like, okay, Mount Everest is system of profound knowledge.

Right? And that's the one where you're like, okay, I read Out of the Crisis.

I think I get it.

The 14 points make sense.

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about that because, you know, for those people that, you know, I mean, there's so many different components.

And, you know, when I got introduced to Deming, it was the 14 points out of the crisis.

And then I left America in 1992.