
Nesting Easter eggs show each layer of the process improvement architecture
One of my children owned a (Russian nesting doll) that is now somewhere in our attic. I was always struck how one piece fit within the other and how getting the assembly out of order generated a mess. I think I learned more from the toy than my children did. The matryoshka doll is a wonderful metaphor for models, frameworks, and methodologies. A model represents the outside shell into which a framework fits followed by the next doll representing a methodology placed inside the framework. Like models, frameworks, and methodologies, each individual doll is unique, but they are related to the whole group of dolls. (more…)