The Six Sigma Project Planner : A Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Six Sigma Project Through DMAIC
Meet your Six Sigma project goals--on time and on budgetSix Sigma demands results. These results are delivered by projects that are tightly linked to customer demands and enterprise strategy. If you're leading a Six Sigma initiative in your organization, this hands-on guide is designed to help you achieve these resultsquickly and effectively by treating a Six Sigma project like any other project that must be managed and completed on time and within budget.Written by leading Six Sigma expert Thomas Pyzdek,The Six Sigma Project Planneroffers a project management approach to Six Sigma. You'll learn how to rigorously measure and analyze problems, implement solutions, and choose and complete the quality improvement projects that offer the largest payoff. Pyzdek provides dozens of reproducible, downloadable project management tools and worksheets for each step of the DMAIC process (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control). The step-by-step guidelines will help your team:Identify high-payoff projects to tackleDefine project goals and estimated ROIEmploy breakthrough techniques to develop and implement entirely new processes that meet project goalsCorrect problems in current processesIdentify stalled projects and jumpstart them--or pull the plug before they consume too much time and resourcesPerform a process capability study using Statistical Process ControlEstablish control and continuous improvement systemsThe Six Sigma Project Plannerenables all team leaders to identify the "Critical Path" to successful project completion--while you stayon timeandon budget.