| For achieving organizational objectives, more and | | | | substantially. |
| more businesses are now implementing quality | | | | How DMAIC Helps In Project Management |
| improvement methodologies such as Total Quality | | | | DMAIC helps because it follows a scientific approach |
| Management, Total Quality Control and Six Sigma | | | | for making the required changes and relies heavily on |
| across all functional departments inside their | | | | statistical tools and techniques that automatically |
| organizations. | | | | reduce the probability of human errors or oversights. |
| All these methodologies do have their benefits, but | | | | For ensuring effective project management, |
| the one that offers the most benefits is certainly Six | | | | businesses first need to define and quantify problems |
| Sigma because it is based on the concept of | | | | that are already there or those that might occur in |
| continuous quality improvements; and as such, it is | | | | future (Define Phase). After this, they need to collect |
| not limited to achieving just the preset quality levels. | | | | data related to the specified problem and "Measure" |
| Six-Sigma And Project Management | | | | the extent of damage that the problem can cause to |
| Six Sigma may have become the buzzword in the | | | | the project. |
| business world, but that does not mean that | | | | In the "Analyze" phase, the specified problem is |
| businesses can ignore the importance of following the | | | | analyzed in detail and efforts are made to devise |
| necessary guidelines while implementing Six Sigma. Six | | | | effective solutions that will help in neutralizing the |
| Sigma certainly helps in reducing the number of | | | | defined problem. Next comes the "Improve" phase, in |
| defects and improving overall quality, but that is | | | | which the suggested improvement measures are |
| possible only when businesses follow the standard | | | | finally implemented. In the last phase, "Control", |
| process of implementation. | | | | specially designed control systems are put in place so |
| The one area where businesses need to be especially | | | | as to measure the effectiveness of the changes that |
| careful is project management -because even a small | | | | have been implemented and also to ensure that the |
| oversight or calculation error can easily undermine the | | | | problem does not repeat itself. |
| success of the project. In order to ensure that | | | | The chances of errors are automatically reduced in |
| maximum benefits are realized, businesses need to | | | | DMAIC because only foolproof statistical tools and |
| integrate Project Management with Six Sigma using | | | | techniques are used such as fishbone diagram, |
| the standard DMAIC process, which stands for | | | | Ishikawa diagram, Design of experiments (DOE), |
| Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. | | | | failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), process |
| When DMAIC is used for Project Management, the | | | | flow diagram and gage repeatability, and |
| probability of failures and redundancies is reduced | | | | reproducibility (R&R) studies. |