Introduction
ACTIVITY: Team introductions, team name selection and get to know each other activity. (20 min)
- Course Objectives, Agenda Review
Understanding Six Sigma
- What and Why Six Sigma
- Six Sigma Overview
- Importance of Measurement
- Terminology, Definition of Six Sigma
- Six Sigma Strategies
- Six Sigma Roadmap
Six Sigma Design Overview
- How is Design Different?
- The DMADV Model
- Selected Design Tools
- Design Conditions
- Design Scenarios
Define
- Create the Vision
- Vision Ingredients
ACTIVITY: Creating a vision. (20 min)
ACTIVITY: Relations Diagram. (20 min)
ACTIVITY: Change Readiness Assessment. (10 min)
- Assumption Busting
ACTIVITY: Assumption Busting. (25 min)
- Vision Ingredients
- Develop Design Strategy and Charter
- Multi-Generational Project Planning
- Project phasing philosophies
- Business Case
- Opportunity Statement
- Goal Statement
ACTIVITY: Critiquing opportunity and goal statements. (30 min)
- Constraints and Assumptions
- Scope
- Roles
- Preliminary Plan
ACTIVITY: Create rough draft project charters, select team roles and responsibilities. (45 min)
- Building a Case for your Design Project
- Force Field Analysis
ACTIVITY: Create an elevator speech. (25 min)
- Change Management/Stakeholder Analysis
ACTIVITY: Perform a stakeholder analysis. (45 min)
- Building a Case for your design project
- Multi-Generational Project Planning
- Gather Voice of the Customer Data
- Effectiveness Assessment
- Understanding customer requirements
- Kano analysis
- Sources of CTQs
- Customer research methods
ACTIVITY: Discuss current VOC techniques. (20 min)
- Organizing VOC input
- Translating VOC into requirements
- Affinity analysis, tree diagram. multivoting
ACTIVITY: Analyzing customer needs.
- Affinity analysis, tree diagram. multivoting
- Customer research methods
- Identify Initial Design Requirements
- Conjoint analysis
ACTIVITY: Conjoint analysis. (20 min) [optional]
- Quality Function Deployment
- House of Quality
- Benefits
ACTIVITY: QFD Rooms 1, 2, & 3. (20 min)
- Conjoint analysis
- Clarify High-Level Process Structure
- SIPOC Diagram
- Design and process mapping
ACTIVITY: Team discussion on best process map approach. (10 min)
ACTIVITY: The pizza SIPOC. (10 min)
ACTIVITY: List value-added, non-value-added and value-enabling activities from your knowledge of common business activities. (15 min)
- Managing the Design Project
- Teamwork checklist: vital signs
- Components of good meetings
- Teamwork management roles
- Storyboards and tollgate reviews
- Define Wrap-Up/Checklist Review
Measure
- Measurement Concepts
- Defining Measurement Objectives
- Design ("greenfield") vs. redesign
- Deciding what and where to measure
ACTIVITY: How's your pizza process?
- Prepare Definitions and Data Sources
ACTIVITY: Defining a measure. (10 min)
- Operational definitions
ACTIVITY: Creating and testing operational definitions. (10 min)
- Data sources and data collectors
- Detailed process mapping
- Operational definitions
- Create Initial Measurement Plan
- Sampling: methods, strategies, situations, biases
- Data types
- Constructing and using data collection forms
- Types of checksheets and examples
- Preparing/training data collectors
- Establishing Capability Baselines
- Process capability (Cpl, Cpu, Cpk)
- Defect measures (DPU, DPO, DPMO)
- Performance scorecards
- Validate Design Benefits
- Cost of poor quality
- Financial impact assessment
- Benchmarks and best practices
- Measure Wrap-up and Checklist Review
Analyze
- Summary of Define and Measure
- Analyze Challenges for Design/Redesign projects
- Analyzing the Current Process
- Value and cycle time analysis
- Value and cycle time analysis
- Assess Process Interfaces
- Interfaces & capability measures
- Defining spec limits
- Balancing & Refining Requirements
- Performance vs. Satisfaction
- Revisiting the House of Quality (Room 2 and 8)
- Challenging Design Assumptions
- Assumption Busting
- TRIZ: Inventive problem solving
- Addressing design contradictions
ACTIVITY: Analyze Planning.
- Addressing design contradictions
Design
- Generating Design Ideas
- Creating innovative ideas
- Planning for brainstorming sessions
- Brainstorming & advanced idea generation techniques
ACTIVITY: Generating Ideas. (30 min)
- Narrowing Ideas & Developing Ideas
- Mixing, matching and combining ideas
- Solution filtering: Pugh matrix
- Designing New Processes
- SIPOC (review)
- "Should Be" process mapping
- Workflow Design Opportunities
- Organization Analysis
- Deployment mapping
ACTIVITY: Process Design. (90 min)
- Key Design Decisions: Criteria Matrix
- Refining the Design
- "Talk-Through" and "Walk-Through"
ACTIVITY: Talk-Through. (30 min)
- Risk Management
- Poke-Yoke: Mistake Proofing
ACTIVITY: Risk Management. (45 min)
- Costing the Process
ACTIVITY: Process Costing. (30 min)
- "Talk-Through" and "Walk-Through"
- Plan & Test the Design
- Process simulation and piloting
- Sampling situations: Population vs. Process
- Biases, strategies
- Population Sampling Overview
- Sample size calculations and worksheets
- Sampling scenarios
- Population Sampling Overview
- Sample size calculations and worksheets
- Sampling scenarios
- Testing, Refining & Implementing Measurement
- Consistency & stability
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Key terms, basic steps, assessing the results
ACTIVITY: DOE opportunities. (20 min)
- Key terms, basic steps, assessing the results
- Capability Flow Down & Flow Up
- Validating & Implementing the Design
- Approvals & Buy-in
ACTIVITY: Decisions and buy-in. (30 min)
- Design Theme
ACTIVITY: Elevator Speech/Theme. (30 min)
- FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
ACTIVITY: Identify two failure modes and note any possible changes to your design. (45 min)
- Organizational analysis and implementation planning
- Approvals & Buy-in
- Design Summary and Checklist
Verify
- Planning Ongoing Measurement
- SPC
- Dashboards
- Control Charts
- Use and interpretation
- Construction method
- Developing Documentation
- What to document and why
- Revision planning for the process
ACTIVITY: Documentation and control.
- Process Management
- Process Owner Responsibilities
- Process Map
- Monitoring
- Response Plan
- Verify Wrap-up and Checklist Review
- Action Planning: Review, Conclusion and Next Steps

