There is certainly a lot of material available on Turtle Diagrams. When reading through some recently, I found myself thinking that there are still many consultants and auditors that seem to miss the true objective and functional uses of the Turtle Diagram. The Turtle Diagram was first introduced by Philip Crosby who is well known for his work Quality is…
In my job as a trainer of Quality Auditors, one of the things that I run into regularly is a misunderstanding of the requirement for auditors to have an evidence-based approach. Evidence is one of those terms that everyone automatically assumes that they understand, but when it comes to determining what is evidence they often run into problems. The problem…
Dogma can be a powerful force in our society. We have a strong tendency to try to short cut systems by copying what others have done. Why? Maybe we think it will be easier. After all, why do a lot of work ourselves when others have done the work for us. Unfortunately we can end up with the blind leading…