Green Belt Projects

The first and foremost thing you need to do is get a good first project selected and completed. If you have completed the training that you described you understand the DMAIC principles and are ready to try to apply them to your first project. The process of project selection should be done in concert with the deployment of Six Sigma at your organization and it should be completed in such a way that it aligns with the strategy of the organization.

There are some excellent texts on project selection. One that I recommend is reading is “The Six Simga Revoltuion: How General Electric and Others Turned Process into Profits” by George Eckes, ISBN is 0-471-38822-X.

I will share with you a series of questions that we use in project selection:

1. Is this process (or defect) a recurring event?
2. Is the proposed project scoped narrowly enough that it can be completed within a maximum of six months?
3. Are metric available that adequately gauge the proposed process’ performance or can they be developed and deployed quickly?
4. Does your organization have control over the process as scoped?

We also seek to have each project impact customer satisfaction and return a minimum in dollars from either revenue enhancement or cost reduction.

I hope that this information helps. If I can be of any further service, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me.

Jim Johnson
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I have recommended for Green belt training, so please tell me the steps to be followed in completing the GB project succesfully.
 
Thanks & Regards
mahesh

*Select  a  project
**Brainstorm a  project  charter
***Initiate  some  basic  SS  Training
****Establish a  SWOT analysis (or FFA)
*****Set  an  action  plan with  a  strict  time  schedule,focusing  on  5  stages (define-measure-analyse-improve  -control)
******Assign  certain  persons to  perform  those  tasks
*******Motivate  quick  wins  and  celebrate
********Evaluate  and  follow-up
*********Sustain  and establish  a  small  team  for  Continuous  Improvement.
**********Before  all try  to  guantee  the  commitment  of  top management,ensure  to  have  enough  resources ,emphasize  on  Empowerment as  a  major  success  factor
Good  Luck   

Interesting suggestion. How do we put those suggestions to practice ? I believe most companies are fire-fighting with ever changing priorities on a daily basis if not hourly.
On that score, I think the SS practitioners worldwide would greatly benefit from a  program or softwarewe which helps companies to put your ideas in practice. Do you have any such ideas or a ready product ready?
Cheers!
 
 

Happy for you. Yeah I am sure it works. It is very clear from the concept that it is a workable solution. That’s why I believe many companies and practitioners could benefit from it.
Cheers!
 

Step 1:  Pray
You’ll need it.

Define the scope of project area ? use tree diagram ?
Measure, study the impact of sig sigma project , carry out project only on area where improvement are visible and project viable?
take up selcted area, analyse root cause of  problem ? and use tools to analyse and   fish bone diagram will do … ABS anaysis …etc
identify root cause and to control and improve the process area , draw some floow chart , with controls ..like time , defect or cost rendering areas.
implement control chart for critical parameters, control and stabalize process.  identify the Cp index ……along refenece table ..check the status ..of sigma level………continue improvement using lean manufacturing …if possible to get to six sigma level…..
 
 

Hi Mahesh,
I am a software Test engineer, and looking for a green project which we could finish in a period of 1-1.5 months.
With this project we are just looking to test our abilities to take up a bigger Green belt project.
Could you please suggest me any projects with the criteria above to start with at a lower level.
 
Thanks,
 Sunil S. G.
 

Hi,
As we all know, every project aims at a big Y, so drill down your big Y to smaller Y’s and so on so that you get to a Y which looks within your scope and start working on it.
What generally takes time in a project is the sign off on the charter, data collection if historical data is not available and improvement(pilot and 100% implementation).
Try for an area where the management will easily buy in the necessity of a project, where data is readily available in any form and which is within scope so change management does not involve much time.
If you feel this helps, you can write to me on @hotmail.com">sirottambandopadhyay@hotmail.com
regards
Sirottam
 

Hai,
I completed my Green Belt certification last month. I want to start my project in it. I am working as Quality Auditor for Non-voice BPO. Can you help me in getting me a project? Can I have some completed projects for reference?

Hi,
 
I am also interested in doing six sigma project and I feel its better if u can find out any process which can be done in a better way than now to increase productivity.
 
Few eg : 1. To make sure you attend calls so that missed calls can be eliminated.
2.To increase productivity on Fridays.
3. To plan accordingly to reduce waste time…
 

Thanks Ashwin for ur suggestions…
But can you throw some light on ‘Accuracy Rate’ – in what regards, in which field  n how?
Thanks in anticipation.

Hey Ashwin,
You have cited good options from a Praoject perpective.
We have already done projects in these areas but they dont seem to be big enough for a GB project. The best that we have been certified are for SSB/SSA(Six Sigma Basic/Six Sigma Automation) projects which is a stepping stone for a GB. Not sure what else can be taken up as a GB as I feel my process is totally juiced out. Can you suggest something else.
Regards…
 
 
 

New ATI actually it’s from D to C; not A to Z.
So there you go – articulated!

Brandon
I  really  apprecate  your  funny  approach
best  regards

Please  clarify  how to  complete  the certification without  submitting  a  project?

Please can you forward me some examples of Green belts projects completed by you.

Sir,
What actually I want to know that,What kind of project I should go for.I am totally new about green belt and it’s project.My classes will start from 6th of Feb.so,I am little bit concern abt my project,what excatly it involves,What I have to do for that. and What kind of Preperation I have to do.
This is only my querry.If  u’ll help me out that would be gr8 for me.
 
Thannks and Regards,
 
Mayank Verma  

Hey Mayank…did u manage to find a valid Green belt Project. I am in the same boat. I can undertake training only if I’ve  aproject and that meets certain criteria’s. Looking at the problem statements I am not able to understand if they would eventually meet the criteria or not.
Please let me know if you or some one can help me to identify a Grren Belt Project in Software area

Vincent,
 
You might be legit, but it’s coming across that you are trolling for clients.  Especially when you are responding to a 7 year old post.
 
Stevo

Are you doing that for free?

O.K it appears I hit somenoes hot button. Yah, and Never did I say I had a fee or was providing a service. I hope that clears the air and the gang will back off. Thank you for your proffessionalism.