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Cape Town has been in drought for three years. The situation is the same across most of South Africa. Other cities like Pretoria, Durban, and Gauteng are also facing a severe shortage of water. At the present moment, water is being rationed by government agencies across most of South Africa. However, the problem with Cape […]
The Economics of Drug Prohibition
Drugs have been a moral menace to many societies for many years. Right from the time, the British East India Company corrupted an entire Chinese generation to the modern world where this epidemic is destroying South American nations, the curse of drugs is causing mayhem. This has led many governments in the past as well […]
Rework and Scope Management
Introduction This article is a follow up of the earlier one related to the project management processes for an automation tool. This tool is to be used for automating the processes of a maintenance project in a software company. Rework A rework can arise due to: Change in scope Quality of the deliverables not up […]
The Mobile Wave is the Wave of the Future
The evolution of media and its interaction with business trends has gone through several waves. If it was Web 1.0 with the introduction of the internet, then it was Web 2.0 with the explosion of social media. Both these waves of innovation revolutionized the virtual world and gave new meanings to how we live, shop, […]
Effect of Domestic Politics on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
In previous articles, we talked about how the ongoing global economic crisis coupled with domestic pressures affect the outsourcing of back office operations. In this article, we look at a hot topic and a burning issue in the West i.e. the hue and cry over outsourcing and shipping jobs overseas especially at a time when […]
The project begins when the top management assigns responsibility to the Project Champion. The Project Champion usually delegates the task of preparing the Project Charter to another team member. It is important for both the Project Champion as well as the team member to understand what information is required. Here are tips on how to collect and review primary information from the management.
Six Sigma projects do not suddenly appear. They are the result of conscious planning by the top management when they map the capabilities of an organization to the deliverables they foresee and find gaps. Alternatively Six Sigma projects are suggested by employees who are in the best position to suggest improvements. In either case it is a business problem which is driving the Six Sigma project. Hence information regarding the problem that is being solved is required.
Before beginning work on the project, there is a bare minimum amount of information which is required. This information pertains to the objectives of the project which are nothing but extensions of the business problem identified earlier. Also the time frame which is expected out of the six sigma team must be made clear.
Most of the times management does not give the Project Champion precise Six Sigma Project Statements. The information provided is vague and too broad to be specifically meaningful. For instance it could mean “preventing bad debts on accounts receivables”.
Obviously such a statement is a symptom and not the real cause. There is a considerable amount of digging down that needs to be done with this information provided by the management. It is for this reason that the Project Champion must:
The project team undertakes the project in the light of the data it has received. It is therefore essential that there be no ambiguity when it comes to storing this information. At a later stage of the project, this lack of data can be detrimental. It can cause the team to work either with the absence of critical data or engage in expensive time wasting data collection.
It is also possible that a misinterpretation may lead the team to start working on a completely wrong track. Therefore the activities pertaining to this stage should be conducted very carefully.
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