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Six Sigma overview
From the course: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Six Sigma overview
- [Instructor] Lean and Six Sigma are both focused on minimizing waste and maximizing customer value. Lean, when combined with Six Sigma, can improve customer satisfaction and improve the quality of the goods and services that you produce. Let's do a quick review of Six Sigma. Sig Sigma originated in manufacturing and used a scientific and statistical approach to measure the quality of a process by tracking the number of defects. The goal of Six Sigma is to reduce defects and keep the output of a process within certain limits of a baseline. Six Sigma was developed at Motorola in the 1980s and popularized by Jack Welch and General Electric in the 90s. Six Sigma was designed to improve the quality of the products. Its effectiveness lead to widespread adoption by companies worldwide. Statistical methods calculate the Six Sigma numbers and percentages. The sigma in Six Sigma indicates variation from a desired…
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