Six Sigma Workshop Overview

Eliminate rework and improve effectiveness of your Six Sigma projects by sending your Green Belts, Black Belts and project team members to this two-day, fast-paced Project Management for Six Sigma training.

This workshop covers the basics that every Six Sigma team needs to know to manage its process improvements projects more effectively. The method taught is the same one utilized in our other project management training programs – we’ve just applied it to the Six Sigma project environment. Green Belts, Black Belts, Master Black Belts and team members will benefit from learning essential tools for helping them keep their projects on track. Included are a full integration of Six Sigma with project management, defining accountability, risk assessment, stakeholder analysis, communication planning, team leadership, developing a schedule and more.

Workshop Target Audience

Black Belts, Green Belts, Champions and team members

Length of Workshop

2 Days

The major learning objectives for the workshop include:

• Work with the sponsor to start your Six Sigma project off in the right direction
• Lead how to use project management to make your Six Sigma projects more successful
• Learn how to effectively plan a Six Sigma project
• Learn how to effectively monitor and control a Six Sigma project

What You Will Learn

HOW TO:

• Foster team participation
• Create a team contract
• Create a charter
• Define the scope of the project
• Set scope boundaries
• Break down the work
• Determine who should be on the team
• Develop a deliverables schedule
• Estimate spending
• Assess risks
• Create countermeasures to reduce risk
• Manage changes to the plan
• Monitor project progress
• Hold status meetings
• Write a status report
• Manage an issues list
• Capture lessons learned
• Assemble a project plan
• Write a close out report . . . and more.

Detailed Agenda

DAY ONE

• The Six Sigma Stages
• Introduction to the Project Process
• Project Management & Six Sigma
• Exercise - Project Problems
• Roles & Responsibilities
• The Components of a Charter
• Exercise - Write a Charter
• Creating an Issues List & Lessons Learned List
• Kicking Off the Project
• Exercise - Team Thinking Styles
• Building a Team
• Team Contract
• Principles of Team Leadership
• Project Leader Skills & Characteristics
• Exercise - Project Leader Self-Assessment
• Scope Definition
• Exercise - Discussion Questions
• Project Types
• Interim Deliverables
• Subproject Work Breakdown Structure
• Exercise - WBS
• Exercise - Discussion Questions

DAY TWO

• Risk Assessment
• Exercise - Risk Assessment
• Reviews & Approvals
• Exercise - Discussion Questions
• Communication Planning
• Estimating
• Exercise - Schedule Preparation
• Scheduling
• Exercise - Creating a Schedule
• Critical Path
• Contingency
• Shortening the Schedule
• Documentation
• Spending Estimate
• Exercise - Project Solutions
• Assemble the Plan
• Change Management
• Exercise - Project Solutions
• Team Meetings
• Status Reporting
• Exercise - Team Meeting
• Communicating with the Sponsor & Customer
• Close Out

PDU's

14 Units (2 day workshop)

Prerequisites

None

Materials Provided

Workshop notebook, The Project Management Memory Jogger™