{"id":6885,"date":"2024-03-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:39:22","slug":"do-as-little-as-needed-not-as-much-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/do-as-little-as-needed-not-as-much-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Do as Little as Needed, Not as Much as Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Too many teams try to use every tool in the Six Sigma toolkit. It&#8217;s counterproductive. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/909179562?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\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals\u201d and QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;For a number of years, I&#8217;ve been a fan of Tim Ferriss, the author of \u201cThe Four Hour Workweek.\u201d In \u201cThe 4-Hour Chef,\u201d he spends a whole chapter talking about how he takes a process, breaks it all down and makes it simple and easy to learn. One of the things that I found in there (and I&#8217;ll just read this, because it makes it a little easier for me), he says, \u201cDo as little as needed, not as much as possible.\u201d As little as needed.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I find people in Lean and Six Sigma [think] \u201cWell, we need a SIPOC diagram and we need a project charter and blah blah blah\u2026\u201d Well, maybe you don&#8217;t. Maybe you just need a control chart, a Pareto chart and a fishbone [diagram]. Maybe you don&#8217;t need every tool in the book. Maybe you don&#8217;t need to do everything, right? Simple. Simple. &#8220;Do as little as needed, not as much as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Simple works; complex fails, right? Simple works; complex fails. Don&#8217;t try and do the most complex thing in the world. Don&#8217;t try and do a design of experiments on something that doesn&#8217;t need design of experiments. I&#8217;ll point you back to number one: Do as little as needed.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Then this last piece is the minimal effective dose. How little do you have to do to start getting the results that you want? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve described in my book \u201cAgile Process Innovation.\u201d We don&#8217;t have to spend two or four weeks in in belt training. In as little as one day we can get people trained, analyze a problem, get results. One day! Minimal effective dose.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The people who are doing this discover that out of those situations\u2026 you know, maybe there&#8217;s 20 people in four teams, and out of those, one or two or three people really show the aptitude to go on into becoming a Green Belt, a Black Belt, a Master Black Belt. Send those people to the higher level training so that they can take the next step, but let&#8217;s not waste a lot of time and energy training people who don&#8217;t have it or aren&#8217;t interested or don&#8217;t want to. I don&#8217;t know, whatever it is.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of a big fat book about cooking, but there is one chapter in here\u2026 if you want to get it out of your library [you can] just read the chapter on how he breaks tasks down so that you can get maximum results with minimum effort.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s part of the genius of the way he approaches everything. He even talks about Pareto\u2019s rule. He says Pareto [says] maybe less than 20% (maybe 5%, maybe 1%) of what you&#8217;re doing is going to produce the most result. Stop doing all that other stuff. Wow. Here&#8217;s a guy talking about Pareto\u2019s rule and how it changed his life. I think it can change yours as well.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go improve something this week with as few tools as necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many teams try to use every tool in the Six Sigma toolkit. 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