PDCA Cycle is important tool for improvement and provides a systemetic approach for improvement .It can also be replicated in ones daily life .
PDCA stands for PLAN , DO , CHECK , ACT .
Planning
It means understanding of what you are trying to achieve and by what means and path for implementation .
Do
After plan has been made and action plan has been decided one has to put these into implementation . It would include training of people ,scheduling ,followup and other project management activities . Sometimes these would not shape in would results in failure .Then we have to back to first stage of planning .
Check
Once plan is implemented then results would flow . These are then compared with the results planned .Deviation are recorded and improvement proposed to achieve the results .
Act
Then we have to act on these results during check process either to restart pdca cycle or to standardizing the results .
Hence any programm has to follow the above path untill one is satisfied with the results and are standardise.