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How Six Sigma SPC Software Design Can Slash the Learning Curve

How you design software can slash the learning curve. Did you design it for college students studying statistics or a business man or woman who just wants to achieve a result with minimal time, effort and training?

“Hi, Jay Arthur with the QI Macros [software]. I wanted to talk to you today about Six Sigma SPC software.

“Now, there’s some big dogs out there, and if you look at them real closely, you’ll see they were designed by professors in the statistical department who wanted to create software to train students in statistics. It has every nook and cranny and option and tweak and everything that you can possibly do to teach people statistics, and fill up curriculums that’ll last an entire semester to focus on different things that you could do to tweak all these little statistics.

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, QI Macros, Statistics.

SPC for Software Development

I just got an email from a guy trying to sell his IT department on Lean Six Sigma and SPC for software development and maintenance. Needless to say the main developers were not too pleased, but basically made the argument that SPC cannot be applied to software cycle development because there are no repetitive processes involved, but rather it is reactionary to external (or unassignable events). He wondered: How would I be able to apply control charts to this environment. Maybe such an environment cannot be ‘controlled’? 
 
This is actually the lame argument that every so called “artist”  uses to explain why they shouldn’t have to learn how to monitor and improve their processes.

Posted by Jay Arthur in Six Sigma.