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Why Project Management is Essential to Successful Six Sigma Project ImplementationIt is common knowledge that most organizations run at a three-sigma quality level and that they lose between 20 and 40 cents of every operating dollar to poor quality. The same statistics apply to projects.The Standish Group has been surveying IT projects for over a decade and continues to find high failure rates—as much as 30 percent of them canceled and 50 percent needing to be revised. And Alan Mul....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Six Sigma project management | Lewis Institute | Project Management Institute |
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The Essence of Project Management One common definition of mananagement is that a manager gets work done by other people. This is certainly not very helpful when you consider that guards over prisoners doing road work also get work done by other people, but we would hardly call them managers. In 1973, Peter Drucker, considered by many to be the “father” of management, wrote a book titled Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Prac....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project management | Project Management Institute | Project Management Body of Knowledge |
Balanced on the Lean/Green Tight Wire: The Role of Lean and Six Sigma in Organizational Survivability and Environmental SustainabilityAs we struggle to keep a solid footing on the tight wire of global completion, gale-force winds of economic uncertainty pose a new risk to our balance. The skillful navigation of tomorrow’s fiscal minefield depends on our ability to master a new generation of “best practices.” Coming under scrutiny is our capacity to minimize process wastes and the prudent consumption of environmental reso....more |
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Author: Clyde Parker Tags: green sustainable | Lean principles | green scorecard |
Defining the Right Project Scope for Six Sigma in HealthcareThe Project Management Body of Knowledge and Project ScopeThe Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines scope as "the process of developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions," while Juran defines scope as a "problem scheduled for solution." It is crucial to have the appropriate scope for the project in the define phase of the DMAIC pr....more |
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Author: Anantha Kollengode Tags: DMAIC framework | DMAIC | process improvement |
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Project Initiation: Where Project Management Often Fails The Project Management Body of KnowledgeThere are five major processes defined by the Project Management Institute’s document, the Project Management Body of Knowledge, or PMBOK®. These are Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closeout. It is at the Initiation stage of project management that the seeds of project management failure are often sown.The reason for project ....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Project Management Body of Knowledge | project definition | PMBOK |
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Planning Your Project The Need for Project PlanningIn my previous column, I pointed out that projects often do not succeed because of a failure to define the problem. Another major reason for project failure is inadequate project planning. To demonstrate the importance of this, recent surveys repeatedly find that only about 15 percent of all projects meet their performance, cost, time and scope targets. And the main reason for t....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project manager | project planning | James Lewis |
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The Next Step in Project Management: How to Form Six Sigma Project Teams In previous columns I discussed a number of aspects of project management, including project initiation, how project management is defined and how to plan. Now I will discuss how to form a Six Sigma project team. And, since I am not an expert in Six Sigma itself, I have asked a colleague of mine to help with this. Let me begin by introducing Tom Ostasiewski, who is a registered engineer, PMP® and a Six ....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Six Sigma project | Six Sigma leadership | Six Sigma management |
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Planning Process Improvement Project Strategy One of the missing elements of most process improvement project planning is attention to the strategy you will employ to do the job. We all know about implementation planning. That is determining exactly how the work will be done. However, we often fall back on doing our work the same way we have always done it, without asking a fundamental question: “Isn’t there a better way?”Finding a Be....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: process improvement | process improvement strategy | James Lewis |
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Facilitating Six Sigma Project Meetings There is no doubt that if you are managing a Six Sigma project, you will conduct a lot of meetings as part of the process. There are two major issues with meetings. First, they tend to waste a lot of time because of meeting management (or maybe I should say mismanagement) problems. They have no clear agenda; and when they do, they often lose focus and get off onto tangents. They go on ad nauseum, have to be....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: project management | group dynamics | James Lewis |
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Why Managers (And Project Managers) Can’t Manage—And What to Do About It In the past several years, we have seen so many corporations implode, explode or whatever, that it is easy to accept what Peter Drucker is credited with saying: The first myth of management is that it exists. (It is not clear whether Drucker actually said this, but he did make similar statements that are on record.) It is not just the Enron debacle that has been in the spotlight, but the mess the mortgage l....more |
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Author: James Lewis Tags: Law of Requisite Variety | project management | empowerment |
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