Month: February 2009

|In: ManagementSpeak|Last Updated:

ManagementSpeak: We are bringing Six Sigma down to the lowest-level worker.

Translation: We are hanging the posters low enough for diminutive employees to read, and making a big fuss about it to the board.

KJR Club member Chris Reed brings Six-Sigma discipline to the translation of management aphorisms.

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|In: Industry Commentary|Last Updated:

Valid inference?

  1. Process design … serious, industrial strength process design … is an engineering problem, calling for engineering expertise.
  2. Lean, Six-Sigma, Lean-Six-Sigma, and Theory of Constraints are all attempts to turn process improvement into serious engineering.
  3. Software development methodologies are business processes, so it Just Makes Sense to try to apply these process design methodologies to it, doesn’t it?

Viewed from 50,000 feet, the logic chain looks good. Here on the ground, though, it’s far from certain.

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