Uneak White's Personal Brand Exploration Presentation
4 things Project Managers and Green Belts should learn from one another
1. Lean Six Sigma and
Project Management
go together
Written by
Francisco Pulgar-Vidal, fkiQuality
fpulgarvidal@fkiquality.com
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2. Continuing the
Executive Education Series
Why Lean Six Sigma is better than
‘just doing projects.’
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3. Goal of this presentation:
Encourage Lean Six Sigma
practitioners and
project managers
to learn from one another.
4. I aim to achieve this by
presenting
two similarities and
two differences
between both methods.
19. At each stage gate meeting,
called a ‘tollgate,’
the project directing team
decides
what happens next.
20. Like in any well-run program,
LSS projects are launched by
sponsors and
champions.
21. Project sponsors and champions
are responsible for
identifying
meaningful projects.
22. What does it take to launch
projects that
mean something?
23. Meaningful projects
support a strategy,
answer customer needs and
improve core processes.
Strategy
Customer
needs
Core
processes
24. The intersections below are
promising targets for
How do we
improvement.
fulfill our
vision?
What do
customers
want us to
do better?
Which
processes
need
fixing?
25. From these target areas,
project sponsors and champions
identify, select and
prioritize LSS projects.
26. This creates a program plan
made of a
phased sequence
of projects.
73. Next presentations will discuss:
• In which way lean six sigma projects go deeper than other efforts.
• The structure of Lean and Six Sigma projects for exploration.
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