Six Sigma Black Belt Specialization
As part of your completion of the Six Sigma Black Belt Specialization, you will be required to complete a Six Sigma Project under the direction of a Black Belt, Master Black Belt or Champion within an organization for which you are affiliated. In the Measure Phase, you will be asked to complete and deliver evidence ( in the form of artifacts) to document your progress.
At a minimum, the following items will be required for the Measure Phase. You are also at liberty to provide artifacts for other tools you deem to be necessary. Include these in the Summary of Next Steps submission.
- Executive Summary – You will provide a summary analysis of all tools provided along with their findings.
Additionally, you will provide responses for the overarching questions
- a) Precisely define what problems are occurring.
- b) How you prioritized and selected critical input, process and output measures
- c) What you have done to validate the measurement system
- d) What patterns are exhibited in the data
- e) Do you believe there was an appropriate use of tools?
- f) What tools did you use beyond each required tools? Why did you use these tools? What benefit did you gain as result of using these tools?
- g) Do you believe the project is ready to move to the next phase? Why or why not?
- h) If the project is not ready, what measures need to be taken to recover? Provide details on steps, timing, impact, and benefit to the project.
- i) Does the project charter, problem, scope of other aspect of the project need to be refined? Please explain
- Process Maps
- Operational Definitions
- Data Collection Plan
- Pareto Charts
- VOP Matrix
- VOC Results
- VOP Baseline Results
- Basic Statistics
- Gage R&R (if applicable)
- Process Capability Analysis (if applicable)
- Summary of Next Steps Setup instructions:
Prepare an artifact in the form of a pdf file for each required deliverable above.
