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Dkonara921 replied to the topic Six Sigma and Project Management in the forum Project Management Knowledge Areas 6 years, 5 months ago
Project managers cannot simply integrate aspects of Six Sigma into their projects because the organization that they are working for may not be familiar with the methodology. If Six Sigma isn’t adopted as part of the organization’s culture, then it’s nearly impossible to just integrate it into your project, even though it’s a great approach to improving quality in a business. The way to implement Six Sigma in your work is to change the culture of the organization slowly by persuading the company to adopt it. Changing the minds of your co-workers and especially the people above you is the best way to allow yourself to use Six Sigma in your work. You may know what you are doing but the organization may have it’s own traditional way to upholding standards of quality. The organization must be familiar and, ultimately, approve of the Six Sigma data-drive approach so that they will understand what you are doing in terms of the logistics in your projects. For example, they need to know about the 15 tollgates which serve as key points in your project life cycle where certain things are expected to happen. Maybe you can apply certain Six Sigma concepts into your thinking and that can influence your progress but implementing the basic features into your project is something that must be learned and adopted by the entire business, not just you. This makes life much easier.