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I saw a post on isixsigma.com by a gentleman named Gary A. Gack about Six Sigma project selection in Software Development. I wanted to exapand on this (and contract a bit) on How to Select a Generic Six Sigma Project. I used some of Gary's excellent concepts. Gary post can be found on isixsigma.com at: (http://www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=758&Itemid=1&Itemid=1) One of the most frequent questions asked by students new to Six Sigma is something like, "What types of problems should we address with Six Sigma?" While there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this sort of question, there are criteria that are universally applicable and provide a project selection framework that covers general top-level considerations. The first rule is, "Don't pan for gold in your hot tub!" Go where the money is. Six Sigma is about significant step changes in organizational effectiveness, and those changes can happen only if the method...

Have you ever head the saying that the "the Cobbler's children have no shoes?" Sometimes you get so caught up in teaching the Lean and Six Sigma methodology that you forget that the methodology can improve the outcome of what you teach. It is no myth that the most difficult "output" of any Lean and Six Sigma Implementation is actual consistent project closure. We tend to "get the train going" with the training of new Green Belts, Black Belts, and Champions and then let them loose to "Slay Dragon's" ... often times with weapons that they don't know how to use. As MBB's, we teach the methodology and help to implement, but we often fall into the trap that many college professors fall into ... WE have a deep intimate knowledge of what we are teaching, and we expect (often subconciously) our budding belts to fill in the blanks. We expect the potential belts to ask questions, but alot of times they get so much information that they ...