Kevin H said:
I've got to agree with Al and Wes that it's redundant - a google search easily turns up a couple of sites that can be used to determine the meaning of acronyms, and most of them include quality related acronyms.
Actually, I think posters ought to give a referent the first time they use an acronym in a thread (not every time within the thread, just the first time) in the form:
- Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) or
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
to help us understand the poster didn't have a dyslexic moment to type one acronym when he meant the other.
Similarly, we Demingites can be real horse's patooties when it comes to throwing around referents like
"Red Beads"
"Funnel Experiment"
without further explanation.
Same goes with other arcane jargon that may not be on everyone else's favorite list:
- Taguchi
- fishbone
- turtle
- full factorial
- pareto
- Ishikawa
- poka yoke
- simulcrum
I wonder how many times I've seen a post I couldn't figure out simply because the jargon just wasn't decipherable. I used to write in response to querying posts (thread starters) that used such jargon:
"What do YOU mean by [arcane jargon]?
Now, I just ignore the post, unless it is in the Forum I moderate.