"Optimizing Quality Goals by Differentiating Six
Sigma Project Types"
This
presentation presents a model for exploring and optimizing project quality
goals through a separation of project effort into three distinct types of
subprojects that help focus effort and attention on multiple aspects of project
quality success.
A
major chemicals industry client learned, during its implementation of Design
for Six Sigma (DFSS) across information technology, that a project initiative
could be envisioned as a combination of three Six Sigma project types that
interact in predictable ways: automation, enablement, and augmentation. Each of the three types can be described as
placing a desired project solution into each of the three positions in an
input-process-output framework. Each
uses Six Sigma and domain-specific tools in different combinations. Any
non-trivial process-system initiative can benefit from this differentiating of
quality goals into these three project subtypes. Whether or not a project
actually uses this differentiation to manage the effort is a function of its
own project management maturity and quality goal expectations. Even if
used only as a conceptual thought map, these three project types help clarify
an alignment between project quality goals and the use of Six Sigma and
domain-specific techniques and tools.
(This
presentation does not presume any particular Six Sigma knowledge or expertise
on the part of attendees.)
Speaker:
Rick Biehl is a consultant and trainer with Data-Oriented
Quality Solutions in