Acronyms
Lean Six Sigma
Team Roles
Define / Scope
Data / Statistics
100
DPMO
What is Defects Per Million Opportunities?
100
This is used to improve the process by reducing variation.
What is Six Sigma?
100
This describes the group of Multidisciplinary team of 5 or so members supporting the project.
What is Core Team?
100
This is used to help define outcome expectations / statements.
What is JTBD?
100
This is the statistical software used frequently in Lean Six Sigma.
What is Minitab?
200
SIPOC - R
What is Supplier, Input, Process, Output, Customer - Requirement?
200
This methodology improves the “flow” by eliminating Waste.
What is Lean?
200
This is the Owner of the solution delivered by the Lean Six Sigma project team.
Who is the Process Owner?
200
This is a Metric to measure possible unintended consequences of process changes.
What is Identify the Consequential Metrics?
200
This is the name of Unordered Categorical Data (based on attributes).
What is Discrete Data?
300
DMADV
What is Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Validate?
300
This is used to describe the factors that drives an output.
What is Y = f(x)
300
If this team member is not actively engaged in Lean Six Sigma project, executives support of program may diminish.
Who is Finance?
300
In addition to VOC, these are the Other Voices that are important.
VOB - Voice of Business VOP - Voice of Process VOE - Voice of Employees
300
This function in Minitab is a quick routine to produce a histogram and basic statistics for a data set. It contains information about Location, Spread, and Shape.
What is Graphical Summary?
400
Q X A = E?
What is Quality multiplied by Acceptance equal Effectiveness?
400
The number of defects per million opportunities expected when a process reaches six sigma.
What is 3.4?
400
This person owns the success of the project and Maintains linkage between business strategy and projects.
Who is Project Champions?
400
Type of process to Document in this Define stage.
What is "As-Is" process?
400
This term describs the best performance recorded in a Time Series Plot.
What is Process Entitlement?
500
WORMPIIT
What are the 8 types of Waste? Waiting Over-Production Rework Motion Processing Inventory Intellect Transportation
500
These 3 tools are used to improve flow in Lean.
What is:- Standard Work Balance Workloads Eliminate Waste Quick Changeovers Visual Factory Eliminate Non Value-Added Work Implement Supermarkets (Kanban)
500
This team member is trained in the tools and methods of Lean Six Sigma and normally leads projects within their "line of sight"
Who is the Green Belt (YOU!)
500
These are 3 of the 5 Qualitative Scoping Tools.
What is:- Fishbone Affinity Diagram Macro Map SIPOC Tree Diagram
500
These are the 5 purposes of Data.
What is:- Inform Make Decisions Predict Influence Describe