Project successful rate
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- April 21, 2005 at 7:28 am #39101
Dear all,
I would like to ask you three question that could be interesting:
– how many (%) of Six Sigma projects (BB or GB) from yours experience, were failed?
-how this rate is changing during the Six Sigma development and maturing process?
-what was the most common cause of the project failure?
From my humble experience I can say that the main reasons of project failure are any mistakes during the DEFINE phase. Most often –lack of clearly defined goal of the project,
-lack of clearly defined scope of the project.
What regards the project failure rate, I can suppose it is about 10%.. What is your experience?
Best regards,KamiL0April 21, 2005 at 8:19 am #118181At the start (first wave projects) there is a remote chance for failure.We can say zero failure since every one is enthusiastic and eager to complete the project.
Subsequently the failure rate will vary from 5 to 20 % depends upon the organisation.
The main root causes is improper project scoping and selection0May 6, 2005 at 9:48 am #119050
NorbertParticipant@NorbertInclude @Norbert in your post and this person will
be notified via email.First round of project may be 20 percent of failure (like ‘Pareto’), after that down to 5-10 percent would be ok.
But – not only in six sigma – you should have an operational definition for “failure” (=defect) before you ask anyone for percentages!
Identified root causes are:
* no proper project selection (process)* not enough benefit because of wrong assumtions and/or incorrect data a* resource availability problems (Belt, Champion!, Teammembers)* change of priorities
It’s always better to stop a non-valuable project as early as possible (Define, Measure) than to finish priojects to keep the ‘failure rate’ low.0 - AuthorPosts
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