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The Parable of the Red Beads later referred to as the Red Bead Experiment was created in March 1982, By William Boller a manager at Hewlett-Packard Company. The Red Bead Experiment was the result of concept that was discussed by William Boller and Dr. Deming at dinner near Cupertino, California. The following day, The first game set was presented to Dr. Deming by William Boller. The Red Bead Experiment was used by Dr. W. Edwards Deming in his seminars world wide over the next eleven years.

References to: William Boller and Red Bead Experiment

Page 346 (paperback edition), Out of the Crisis, ISBN-10: 0262541157. Author: W. Edwards Deming, Published: MIT Press, August 11, 2000.

The first set of wooden beads were actually brown and red. The Hewlett-Packard version of the script to play the game was written by Hewlett-Packard Company's Shirly Gilbert and published in the HP's employee magazine "on-Line" Volume 2, Number 2 in 1993. Private reprint stored at: http://www.redbead.info/docs/bb_hp_script.pdf (password willing4worker)

Actual red and white 6 mm wooden beads were to provided to Dr. Deming by: Michael Arthur Johnson in 1984. Personal letters written by Dr. Deming to Michael Arthur Johnson are electronically stored at: http://www.redbeadexperiment.net/docs/dr_deming_letters.pdf.