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Manage IT Projects and Resources the Six Sigma Way
By exploring how Lean Six Sigma is used at best-practice companies and learning the answers to some common questions, software and IT organizations not already using Lean Six Sigma can gain a greater understanding of what they are missing.
Activities vs. Performance: The Procedure/Audit Dilemma
Including compliance audits and procedures in work processes lowers cost, time, and risk and improves quality. Trained Black and Green Belts use process and measurement tools to refine and maintain control of compliance programs and avoid redundancy..
Activities vs. Performance: Improvement, Common Sense
Organizations have a strong bias toward planning, managing and executing a multitude of supposedly value-added activities hoping that these activities will yield significant results
Tailoring Six Sigma to Software Development
As the popularity of Lean Six Sigma techniques expands into software and technology environments, the notion that these methods and tools can provide a quick fix, unrealistic results or a panacea (for all that is wrong) has been proliferated
A Unique Roadmap to Guide Lean Six Sigma Champions
Most organizations have DMAIC and DFSS roadmaps to guide Black Belt and Green Belt projects. But what guides their Champions?
What CIOs and CTOs Need to Know About Lean Six Sigma
Today's CIOs and CTOs are faced with a plethora of issues ranging from corporate realignment to growth to shrinking budgets.
Controlling the Process That Controls Business Processes
Most experts estimate this global IT Spending at about US $1 trillion in 2006, with data indicating that the cost of poor quality (COPQ) exceeds $250 billion. Some estimate it could be as high as $500 billion. That means that 25 to 50 percent of every company's IT budget is at risk.
Optimizing Software/ IT Role in a Typical Organization
In software and IT projects most failures are related to the lack of an understanding of what the customer really expects the system to do (operational requirements) and why (business results). But a program like Six Sigma can resolve many of these issues.
Using DFSS to Improve Offshore Outsourcing Efficiency
Offshore outsourcing of software development work has been an emerging trend for about a dozen years. Using Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is one way that software organizations can make better decisions about how, when and how much to deploy.
Assessing for Lean Six Sigma Implementation and Success
Successful corporate initiatives such as Lean Six Sigma require proper planning, prioritization, resource allocation, budgeting, training, and proper review and reward mechanics. These initiatives also must consider the stability, accuracy and maturity of the core processes, measurement systems and the people they will affect.
A Robust VOC Process to Drive Better Six Sigma Results
Many Six Sigma efforts are not really customer-driven. Too many companies pay only lip service to the needs and perspectives of stakeholders and customers when selecting and deploying Six Sigma projects. There are three main reasons for this
Improving Offshore Outsourcing Efficiency with DFSS
This article reviews some perspective on offshore outsourcing of software development work and provides some thoughts around how a Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) approach may help software organizations make better decisions about how, when and how much to deploy offshore.
Six Sigma for Software - A Role Based System
This article is intended to help the reader better understand the early attributes of how Six Sigma is typically and successfully deployed inside a Software organization.
Six Sigma for Software… More Than a New Tool
Six Sigma for Software is rapidly emerging as the new wave of change in Six Sigma and no wonder. It actually addresses the tools AND the root causes of the lack of needed change, Management Accountability and Organizational Behavior.
Six Sigma Critical Success Factors
Measuring and managing Six Sigma critical success factors is needed for organizational alignment and optimization.
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