{"id":1815,"date":"2019-06-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:24:32","slug":"six-sigma-project-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/six-sigma-project-birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sigma Project Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have to throw a birthday party for your improvement project because it isn&#8217;t complete, you&#8217;re not alone, but you&#8217;ve lost sight of the outcome.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/325061022?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma Demystified\u201d and the QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;At the Lean Six Sigma World Conference I heard another phrase that I had never heard before: \u201cProject Birthdays.\u201d What? A project that has lasted so long, a year later it&#8217;s having a birthday and it&#8217;s still not done yet. In one of the studies the Green Belt teams had as long as 16 months to complete a project.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, I hate to tell you this but if you have something that looks like it might have a project birthday, somehow you didn&#8217;t laser focus your improvement and get it improved, because with the right kind of data, the right kind of focus, you can do that in a day or sometimes a week. It doesn&#8217;t take a month, a year, a century to get these things done. If you&#8217;re an Agile Lean Six Sigma improver you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">do some data analysis<\/a>, you figure out what needs to be fixed, you get a team together, you solve that problem, you implement the solution. Very often the solution is manual; it is not \u201cOh, gosh, we need to buy new equipment\u201d or \u201cwe need a new computer system\u201d or whatever it is. Does this make sense?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So what we want to do is accelerate results, and that way Six Sigma won&#8217;t go in the trash bin as it does in many companies, right? So you&#8217;re going to have to focus: get that improvement, implement the solution and do it in less than a month or two or twelve or sixteen!<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s my Improvement Insight for this week: Don&#8217;t let project birthdays show up on your calendar. 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