Six Sigma Team Roles
This belt level is responsible for leading Six Sigma projects and mentoring Green Belts.
What is a Black Belt?
This phase involves identifying the problem and setting project goals.
What is Define?
DMADV is used instead of DMAIC when this is missing.
What is an existing process?
This group provides strategic alignment and resources for Six Sigma projects.
What is Executive Leadership?
Yellow Belts often assist with this phase of DMAIC by collecting process data.
What is Measure?
This Six Sigma role provides high-level sponsorship and ensures resources for project success
What is a Champion?
In this phase, data is collected to establish a performance baseline.
What is Measure?
In DMADV, the last two stages replace "Improve" and "Control" with these steps.
What are Design and Verify?
To keep stakeholders engaged, Six Sigma teams should use this key strategy.
What is regular communication?
A Yellow Belt is typically a subject matter expert (SME) in this area
What is their specific work process?
This role typically acts as a process expert and supports the Six Sigma project by providing technical knowledge.
What is a Yellow Belt?
This phase uses statistical analysis to identify root causes of defects.
What is Analyze?
This term describes Six Sigma’s approach to designing new processes from the ground up
What is Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)?
This Six Sigma role must ensure team members and executives understand the impact of the project
What is a Black Belt?
A Yellow Belt works with Green and Black Belts to help create these for training employees on process improvements
What are communications and process change explanations?
This is the highest belt level, responsible for strategic guidance and mentoring Black Belts.
What is a Master Black Belt?
Solutions are developed and tested during this phase.
What is Improve?
This phase ensures that the new process meets customer and business requirements
What is Verify?
This Six Sigma principle ensures that improvements are data-driven, not based on opinions
What is fact-based decision-making?
After a project is complete, Yellow Belts may assist with this key activity to ensure success.
What is monitoring performance and gathering post-implementation data?
This individual is responsible for sustaining improvements after a Six Sigma project is completed
What is a Process Owner?
This final phase ensures changes are sustained through monitoring and control plans
What is Control?
Before a project starts, companies may use this additional step, symbolized as "r" in rDMAIC
What is Recognize?
This phase in DMAIC is where teams first work on getting executive buy-in.
What is Define?
Yellow Belts help ensure that Six Sigma projects use business-specific terminology and align with this.
What are company goals and culture?