Grumpy

Sounds like a homework assignment to me.

1. Learn the “lingo” for your businesses. High level management loves lingo.
2. Focus on money, and not anything else. Money is king. Know that lingo too (MBA’s teach you #1 & #2).
3. Act irrational. You’ll fit right in. The best combination is to laugh very loudly while maintaining a distinct air of concern over the quarterly budget. It also…[Read more]

I’d tend to add Components (the subparts that make the whole, especially those outside of your control).

Well put.
I was a very active BB for 10 years before deciding to study & take the ASQ CSSBB exam. It was a good experience. I’m glad I did it and am proud of my certification.

After your odd little guessing game last weekend, it sounds like you have reached what I call the “Guru” phase in your career, where you look down on all the little people and smile, much like an owner smiles at a puppy trying to climb over a street curb.
Who really cares what a “Six Sigma Expert” is? Most of us are busy with the lesser task of…[Read more]

The means have to be normally distributed, not the individual data values.

Yeah, we’ve found that Word and PowerPoint get expensive too, so we do all our word processing and presentations in Excel too. We’re still trying to figure out how to use Excel for e-mail.

The sample size depends on several input factors, including the type of test being used for the analysis.
Minitab is right for the use (test) specified. The others are right for certain uses that may not be specified.