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BaseLine© is designed for anyone who wants to monitor the behaviour or performance of their "system" or "process". Anyone with time-sequenced data can simply cut n' paste that data into BaseLine©, instantly converting it into a simple chart - a picture of how things are changing, and how predictably. A BaseLine© process behaviour chart is a picture that literally saves a thousand words because it initiates conversations that are about the system rather than about isolated, spurious or unrelated events. BaseLine© is a tool that empowers those working on the system, with the help of those working in the system, to maintain their system in a stable and predictable state and then to safely steer sustained improvement and innovation. BaseLine© is available in two versions:
You can get started immediately by downloading the free BaseLine© Lite version and paste in some of your own time-sequenced data - just 15 points is usually enough. BaseLine© is intuitive to use and to help you get started the Lite version includes an Introductory User Guide. ExampleTo give you a flavour of how BaseLine© is used in practice - here is a set of twenty measurements from a test system ... 47, 55, 40, 52, 55, 70, 60, 43, 51, 41, 73, 73, 79, 89, 83, 86, 78, 85, 71, 70. For most of us the story hiding in this row of numbers doesn't exactly jump out of the page!
Time-ordered data presented as a picture is much easier to interpret because it is how our brains have evolved to work. When presented as a picture you can see immediately that something changed between points 10 and 11 - there has been a clear step increase in the scores. T he change looks obvious, but can we also say with confidence that it is significant? Could this have happened purely by chance?With BaseLine© you can answer this question with the click of a button - by creating an Individuals Chart.
The Individuals Chart confirms our initial subjective impression. What exactly has changed? With BaseLine© you can answer this question with twomclicks: select point 11 and then split the data into two segments (points 1 to 10 and points 11 to 20).
It is now obvious just what the change was: the average has jumped from about 50 to about 80. There is another change visible too: the point-to-point variation over time has fallen; as shown by the narrowing of the limits of natural variation. This single change explains all the "signals" and we now have good evidence that our system has improved; it is both better and more consistent.
With this richer picture of the story of we can:
With BaseLine© you have a tool to see what your process or system is trying to say to you. Quick Recipes
A. Create a Run Chart Contact: enquiries@SAASoft.com © SAASoft 2010 |
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When you copy n' paste
the row of data into BaseLine© you can see the pattern immediately.
BaseLine© scans through the data, calculates the average (green
line) and also measures the change from point-to-point to calculate the limits of
natural variation (red lines). Baseline© then uses these
guidelines to search for
specific patterns in the data. If it finds any of these patterns it marks the start of the
pattern with a red flag and a number that indicates the type of patten it found.
These flags say "there is very probably something going on here that is not
just chance". In other words - "there is signal in the noise".
BaseLine© will
now scan the two segments separately and display the results on the chart.