The Application of Measures and Metrics of Lean and Agile Techniques in Project Management

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This article is an attempt to introduce the significance of Lean Six Sigma and its potential impact on our programs and the value attained from accumulating measures and metrics from data derived from its application. This article will also introduce the agile methodology and its effects on process improvements.

From safeguarding our countries to providing the utmost quality in health­care, as well as the foun­dation and framework for the nation’s financial and economic architecture—these are tasks that should be performed with the ut­most concern and are only acceptable if they are of the highest quality. Pro­viding products outside the acceptable parameters of quality, not listening to the “voice of the cus­tomer” (VOC), or failing to achieve the levels of efficiencies or effectiveness required for our stakeholders, will result in a degradation of responsibility. These possibilities can be minimized and held within controlled limits, by instituting process improvements that will afford measures and metrics to be used for monitoring our products. It is only with the utmost concern for quality, not only in the product developed, but in our own managerialefforts,  that we will attain the degree of excellence for our people and products. Our quest for this quality must be forged by the application of contemporary tested …

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