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Potpourri
100

A type of map that shows the suppliers, inputs, process, outputs and customers for a process

What is SIPOC

100

If you see a huge pile of TVs near the shipping dock, what waste are you observing

What is overproduction

100

A living document that does not solve the problem

What is Project Charter

100
A comprehensive approach to identifying key impacted people and how the project may be perceived
What is Stakeholder analysis
100

A Japanese word that means continuous improvement

What is Kaizen

200

A type of map that breaks out the process steps into categories or lanes

What is Swim Lane or Functional

200

The type of work that is unfinished in a given work center

What is work in process - WIP

200

The section that reveals the pain that is being experienced

What is the Problem Statement

200

The tool used to determine potential problems in a process or design

What is FMEA

200

This type of graph relates two variables as a quick way to assess correlation

What is a scatter diagram

300

A type of map that is used when you want to map material and process flow

What is Value Stream Map

300

Quality is defined in the eyes of this stakeholder

Who is the customer

300

The section that has SMART features

What is Project Goal and Objectives

300

Planned periodic updates to stakeholders and champions to ensure transparency in all aspects of the project and to progress the project to the next phase

What is Tollgate or Gate Review

300
The process of transfering the customer needs into process or product requirements
What is defining Critical to Quality or customer CTQs
400

A type of map that is done to reveal a transformed state where NVA activity is reduced

What is Future State

400

Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over-processing, Over-production, Defects, Skills

What is the eight wastes of Lean

400
The boundaries of what is included and what is not included
What is project scope
400

If you wanted to assess the impact of several different variables on the output of a process, you could use this tool to create a plan to test and analyze

What is Design of Experiments

400

This quality concept holds that every process has an observable bottleneck

What is Theory of Constraints

500

The process used to identify the steps for which a customer is willing to pay and those they are not willing to pay

What is non-value added analysis

500
Activity that takes management to the front lines to look for waste and opportunities to improve
What is GEMBA walk
500

This project document lists all the tasks needed to complete project deliverables

What is a work break down structure or detailed project plan

500

The person who introduced the team role model to project management

Who is Meredith Belbin

500
1M X D ________ N X O
What is Defects per million or DPMO