[Kim_Bruning]

Compare also PDCA [1] which is used more by civilians.

Every time people rediscover rapid iteration in tight feedback loops, and every time so far it's gotten watered down to nothing again by people who get the rituals, but don't quite grok the underlying concept. [2]

On the other hand, you could do practically any sort of ritual or even just laze around in bed: if you understand the underlying concept, you'll still get decent results. [3]

see also: [4] for a short bit on OODA when actually flying an aircraft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

[3] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html See eg. Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine ;-)

[4] https://youtu.be/OCFMX5z-ed4?t=940 (starting 15:40) Art of the kill, Pete "Boomer" Bonanni

[Terretta]

PDCA is entirely unrelated to OODA. There are a bunch of graphics that confuse people into thinking they're related, by showing O-O-D-A-> in a circle. That's dead wrong.

OODA is all about feedback mechanisms:

https://co2partners.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ooda.png

So any correspondence is a misunderstanding:

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f16206_0206cf0c618a47b1ab...

You will not achieve the same results with an iteration.

You will only achieve similar results with "double loop" learning and informed intuition driven actions that skip the "decide" step.