Six Sigma

Leveraging Systems Engineering Concepts In Operations

September 9, 2025

Value stream optimization begins with valid business process requirements in order to meet an internal or external customer need.

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Integrating Established Disciplines into an Operation

July 28, 2025

Implementing an established discipline such as Project Management / PMO or Lean Six Sigma (for example) should consider enabling fundamentals before moving forward.

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Why DMAIC Endures as a Robust Thought Process

April 14, 2022

The tried-and-true Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) thought process endures as a fundamentally robust problem-solving thought process.

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Benefits of Comparing DMAIC with Project Management

April 14, 2022

Our previous article covered the benefits of comparing waterfall with agile, emphasizing the benefit of planning the agile process and product backlog content.  In this article we’ll compare the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC) thought process, with a project…

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Fundamentals of Applying a Structured Approach

October 19, 2021

In reviewing several previous articles in this article series, it’s apparent there is much in common with product development, project management and process improvement. Let’s look at a brief list that considers a structured approach vs. unstructured While this list…

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