Is Lean Six Sigma something that a Project Manager should be familiar with?

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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia

Lean and Six Sigma techniques are coming back due to Agile "revolution". Many techniques that were successfully used in manufacturing are re-discovered and used in project delivery. Techniques like kanban, kaizen, TOC are more and more adopted by Agile project teams. Should the PM knowledge areas be expanded to include Process Improvement?

Posted: Nov 12, 2018 5:02 PM

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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia

@Anish, LSS is not focusing on products or services, That is the objective of a project, LSS is focused on process improvement only.

Posted: Nov 14, 2018 3:40 PM

Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States

Nov 14, 2018 3:21 PM

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@Keith, why do you think that process improvement is not important for new products? The (development) process must be in place before you start a new product.

Good point! During development there is often a refinement of whatever the deliverable is before it's delivered. I was thinking more along the lines how often projects are launched as an improvement of something already in place, but I completely agree that 6 Sigma can be applied to get the desired results even on a greenfield project, as an iterative development process.

Posted: Nov 14, 2018 4:34 PM

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Is Lean Six Sigma something that a Project Manager should be familiar with?

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