If you can’t say it simply, you don't know it well enough (#43)

If you can’t say it simply, you do not know it well enough.

What is Six Sigma? There’s probably a reader or two who just read that statement and said to themselves, “what the …?” Six Sigma is a methodology. Though it may seem scary at first hand, Six Sigma is so simple to understand. Read this story to figure out just how easy it is.

For all of my football fans, we are going to talk about the kickers. Check in with the coach; who is assessing five different field goal kickers to determine who will play in Friday night’s game.

What does the kicker do in the game? He tries to kick the ball between the field goal posts. You think that if he makes it in between the two posts he succeeds? Generally speaking, yes. But how do you pick between a group of kickers?

So, the coach puts a GPS tracker on every football. This way he can see exactly where every ball passes through the field goal. He has each of the five players kick the ball 100 times from center field, at the 35-yard line.

Each player steps up and kicks the ball 100 times. Every single player succeeds in making the football go through the goal posts. For four of the kickers, their results (where the ball crossed the goal) were crazy sporadic. None of these four could kick the ball through field goal in the same spot. They were very inconsistent.

The last player succeeded in kicking every football through the goal posts as well. But his results were very consistent. When reviewing his results, every single one of his footballs went through the goal posts, right down the middle. He was very consistent.

So now you ask the coach, who is going to play in Friday Night’s game? Let me ask you, who would you choose?

You’ll probably choose the last player. Why would you choose him? He is the most consistent! He is the most predictable and reliable because he has greater control over his kicking style (Critical Inputs) when he kicks the football.

If you create a scatter plot of all the footballs each player kicks, you will see player 5’s footballs consistently split the uprights, which is directly in the middle. His “dots” would have a very small variation. The first four players would have a high level of variation because their kicks were not consistent.

When talking about Normality and Capability, this is a perfect example. Watch this video for a demonstration.

YouTube: Explaining Six Sigma, the “Kicking Coach” Story


Let us know your cool stories for understanding Six Sigma!


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