Tools for Planning and Managing Six Sigma Project Opportunities - 2.5 hours
Tools for Planning and Managing Six Sigma Project Opportunities Tools for Planning and Managing Six Sigma Project Opportunities
Overview/Description Target Audience Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number
Overview/Description In many situations your results are only as good as the tools you use. Knowing which tools to use, and how to apply them effectively, is the key to any endeavor's success. This assertion holds true for process and quality improvement strategies, and Six Sigma and quality improvement teams throughout the world use a set of management and planning tools to analyze and understand a variety of issues. This course will examine the tools used in Six Sigma to help organizations make decisions and plan and communicate findings. These tools include affinity diagrams, interrelationship digraphs, tree diagrams, prioritization matrices, matrix diagrams, process decision program charts, and activity network diagrams. The course describes these tools, identifies their benefits, and uses real-life examples to show the situations that they are best suited to. It also outlines the steps for using each tool in a Six Sigma context. This course is aligned to the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam and is designed to assist learners as part of their exam preparation.
Target Audience Candidates seeking Six Sigma Green Belt certification; quality professionals, engineers, production managers, and frontline supervisors; process owners and champions charged with the responsibility of improving quality and processes at the organizational or departmental level
Expected Duration (hours) 2.5
Lesson Objectives Tools for Planning and Managing Six Sigma Project Opportunities
recognize the use of best practices for creating an affinity diagram sequence the examples of steps for creating a matrix diagram identify areas for improvement in a given tree diagram interpret a prioritization matrix interpret an interrelationship digraph identify the critical path for an activity network diagram interpret a process decision program chart Course Number:oper_06_a03_bs_enus
