Lean Six Sigma for Good Podcast — E080: Using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to Transform Government and Nonprofits with Michael Areola
In this podcast, I interview Michael Areola, who is a Product Development consultant and Agile…
Lean Six Sigma Bursts: E30: Using a Prioritization Matrix to Select the Best Projects
Are you trying to decide how to select the best projects to work on, but have many stakeholders and customer needs to consider, and too many project ideas? Check out …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts: E29: How to decide on the right number of people for your lean event?
I received a question today that I thought would be helpful to everyone: “Imagine you are getting ready to kick-off the value stream workshop and you start to receive emails …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts — E28: Don’t combine financial data together, separate into these 3 buckets
When making improvements to a process, cost savings and avoidance is a common outcome that is estimated and reported. A common error is to combine the data together into one …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts — E27: Calculate cost of nonconformance to get management’s attention for Lean
One of the most impactful quality initiatives I was involved with was the creation and deployment of the Cost of Nonconformance (CoNC) report. It was a method to assign a …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts — E26: Common Data Types for your Process
In process improvement, there is a strong focus of data. But in order to analyze data for an improvement project, you need to know what type of data you have …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts — E25: Why do we need 30 data samples?
I saw a recent question in a forum, asking about the origin of the sample size of 30 data points. I decided to read you the response I gave, and …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts — E24: Top 3 things to validate before removing test or inspection steps
I share an article I wrote back in Dec 2013 about reducing or eliminating test or inspection steps using Six Sigma analysis methods of capability and stability, along with risk …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts: E23: What is the Lean Communicators network?
I share an interview I did with Mark Graban about why I created this podcast. He included me in a new networking group called Lean Communicators. We are a group …
Lean Six Sigma Bursts: E22: Why calculating Median can be better than a Mean or Average
Most people calculate the average when summarizing data, but what about the median? The median is not as sensitive to outliers and skewed data, and can be a better indicator …