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What's the difference between Six Sigma Projects and Traditional Projects?

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
What's the difference between Six Sigma Projects and Traditional Projects?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Help a new practicioner with a simple answer...
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Igor Zdorovyak Director of Projects| Immunovant Fair Lawn, Nj, United States
Hi George,

Both help processes work better. Sigma follows the DMAIC, which is Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control phase. Traditional Project management follows series of steps known as initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing.
Six Sigma concentrates on reducing variance and eliminating the number of defects that a process produces. It relies on statistical analysis and there are many methods to analyze current performance and help identify the root causes of problems.
Traditional Project management is more concerned with getting the project up and running than with fine tuning its performance.
As we all know it a project. Has a specific duration. That’s why I always put into operational plan to validation steps to continually have a sanity check – are we on track, do we need to improve, do we need to pivot.
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MaSyh Thompson Project Manager III| Centene Oakland Park, Fl, United States
Do you have a DMAIC project plan template ?
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Oct 30, 2020 2:15 PM
George Lewis
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There is one or more in the MS Project template section.
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Oct 30, 2020 1:44 PM
Replying to MaSyh Thompson
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Do you have a DMAIC project plan template ?
There is one or more in the MS Project template section.
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Syed Arshad Ali Ahmed General Systems Analyst| SCC Hyderabad, Telengana, India
Project Management promotes best practices by introducing policies, templates, PM tools and reviews on a project basis per se.

Six Sigma rather focuses on continuous improvement via processes that include cultural and statistical methodologies.

Six Sigma addresses traditional Project Management Shortcomings, there are no half measures, also you cannot implement in bits and pieces.

Another difference is with regards to the precision in handling business critical processes.

Additionally, Six Sigma is applied to low level operational inefficiencies by indirectly supporting strategic directives development and implementation.

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