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Applying Six Sigma in projects
From the course: Project Management Foundations: Quality
Applying Six Sigma in projects
- Now I want to talk about why Six Sigma is important for project managers. But first, let's talk about breakfast. One of my favorite projects on the weekend is making pancakes. Sometimes they're perfect, they're fluffy, they're just the right size and shape and they're nicely browned on both sides but there are also some defective pancakes, they're too big or too small or they're burned on the outside and gooey in the middle. Those defective pancakes are a waste of ingredients, a waste of electricity and a waste of my time. They take almost exactly the same investment of resources as a perfect pancake but they create no value because my kids won't eat them. So how can I reduce this waste and stop making defective pancakes? Well, that's what Six Sigma is all about. Six Sigma is a process improvement technique that was created around statistics and statistical process control. We won't go into the math right now or…
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Continuous improvement and the cost of quality2m 35s
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Quality planning, assurance, and control2m 8s
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Applying lean in projects3m 9s
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Applying Six Sigma in projects2m 52s
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Applying agile in projects2m 32s
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Building a house of quality2m 57s
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Using Pareto analysis2m 35s
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Developing quantitative metrics2m 50s
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Developing qualitative metrics2m 9s
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Testing, audits, and inspections2m 3s
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