October 2015

How Much Training Is Needed to Create Good Black Belts?

Published: October 27, 2015 by Michael Carver

One would think that with the levels of standardization and process efficiency we drive in Lean Six Sigma that there would be consensus on how much training a certified Black Belt should receive. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, despite the herculean efforts by the American Society of Quality (ASQ) and the […]

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Metrics Project Management

Use Earned Value Management for Process Improvement

Published: October 26, 2015 by Sunil Kaushik

Whenever there is an issue in a process, attempts are made to identify the process step that is causing the problem, identify the root cause and come up with a corrective or preventive action. The time taken to identify the “right” process step is directly proportional to the number of process steps involved and it […]

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Lean Trending

Published: October 13, 2015 by Gary P. Cox

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Teams

Enhancing GRPI with the Nominal Group and Delphi Techniques

Published: October 5, 2015 by Dushyant Thatte

Within Six Sigma’s change acceleration process, GRPI (goals, roles and responsibilities, process, and interpersonal skills) is a tool for team development. The GRPI model should be used in the following scenarios: When initiating a new team and planning its first steps When a team is not working well and it is not clear why GRPI […]