Six Sigma is data-driven. Six Sigma statistics play an important role in Six Sigma’s problem-solving process. Six Sigma Green Belt training emphasizes the importance of Six Sigma statistics to visualize, analyze, and control the data for each metric that is important to customers. Six Sigma statistics can be applied in different ways in Six Sigma…
Month: August 2022
Get the scoop on ITIL Service Design
The second stage of the ITIL Lifecycle is service design. This involves the creation of new services and the redesign of existing services in order to meet the strategies developed during the Service Strategy phase. Based on the strategies developed during the ITIL Service Lifecycle’s first stage, new services and changes to existing services can…
First Pass Yield vs. Roll ThroughPut Yield vs.
Lean training courses discuss yield as a measure for the quality of a process. Six Sigma considers yield an important term. There are two types: first pass yield, or FPY, and rolled throughput yield (or RTY). Free Lean Six Sigma training discusses whether FPY is better than RTY. This article compares the rolled throughput yield…
Find Your Army COOL MOS Related Certifications
The Army COOL website has evolved with new features, but one mission remains: to find MOS related credentialing opportunities for soldiers. There are a number of certifications and credentialing options for soldiers based on their MOS, experience, and career goals. There are 3 main paths to choosing the right credentials for you. Credentials may be…
Financial Terms in Project Management: The Key to Success
Project Management can include many financial terms. These terms are most relevant to project selection methods, and in particular the economic model, which is the most popular approach to project selection. As a project manager, it will help you be more confident in selecting the right project. These financial terms will allow you to calculate…
Planning for Change One thing that will never change is the constancy and speed of change. This seems like an obvious truth. Why do we plan as though change will never happen? People are generally quite good at managing change, although abilities vary between individuals. Therefore, I believe that most people assume that they will “figure out it when it happens” when planning. I don’t advocate that we plan for every possible scenario. I’m talking about systems and structures that can be scaled by design and flexible enough not to create excessive overhead when dealing with changes during execution. Some examples:
Consider how you will build your application. Administrators can easily modify and customize it. This is something that many companies don’t do. Any minor modification will require a new project to create a new release. Make a list of the most popular items that users will be able to customize and make it so. You…
To-be Project Managers: Personality type. Like many others, I am an aspirant Project Manager. A project manager’s most valuable asset is not only his or her hard core skills, certifications, networking, and trying to motivate your team. Have you ever thought about your personality type and how it might impact your efforts to become a PM? This article explains the characteristics required. Here are a few questions that the article suggests PM’s might want to consider.
What are my basic skills and how will they affect my work? What non-Project-Management experiences will help a person be a good Project Manager? What are my strongest talents and can I use them daily? What type of management would you prefer if I became a Project Manager? Which organizations best reflect my values and…
Performance or knowledge?
Your move I started playing chess at the age of 10 or 11. I know the movements of each piece. I know how to avoid Fool’s Mate. I know a few opening strategies. I know the relative values of the different pieces. I won almost as many games playing with my friends as I lost….
Performance-Based EVM
Travis Anderson guest post Hello all, Many of us have had to struggle to obtain useful program performance data. It is not always an easy process of maturing project management and earned value management best practices on our commercial/government contracts. Sometimes we feel like giving up, especially during variance analysis. We know that there is…
Perfect timing
I am putting a lot of effort into learn.pmStudent.com right at the moment, and have been privileged to receive submissions from familiar guest bloggers for pmStudent.com. Over the next week, you’ll see posts from guest bloggers about topcs from requirements to obsolescence. Since I started keeping track, there have been more than 2,600 comments on…