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This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.
List of contents
Framework and Methodology.- "PDSA Initiate" Process Group.- "PDSAPlan" Process Group.- Project Management Plan.- Project Management Scope.- Collecting V.O.C. Requirements.- Work Breakdown Structure.- Time Management Plan.- Project Schedule Plan.- Resources Management Plan.- Quality Management Plan.- Collecting V.O.C. Requirements.- Experimental Study.- Cost Management Plan.- Procurement Management Plan.- Communication Management Plan.- Risk Management Plan.- Project Retrospective.- Assessment of the Overall Plan and Implementation.- Conclusion to "PDSA Plan".- "PDSA Do" Process Group.- Build Deliverables.- Explore Cause-and-Effect Relationship.- Verifying Identified Assignable Causes.- Analysis of Process Steps and Tasks.- Generation of Improvement Solutions.- Monitoring and Controlling Execution.- Conclusion to "PDSA Do".- "PDSA Study" Process Group.- Study Deliverables.- Monitor and Control Study Execution.- Conclusion to "PDSA Study".- "PDSA Act" Process Group.- Conclusion.- Epilogue.
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This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.
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“It provides the reader all the tools, metrics, measures required to be put into practice straight away. It is very detailed and at the same time practical, it is the best book I have read so far on this subject. I would definitely recommend the ‘Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation’ and like me, I hope it helps you on your process transformation journeys.” (Inside Business, Vol. 2 (5), April, 2015)
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"It provides the reader all the tools, metrics, measures required to be put into practice straight away. It is very detailed and at the same time practical, it is the best book I have read so far on this subject. I would definitely recommend the 'Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation' and like me, I hope it helps you on your process transformation journeys." (Inside Business, Vol. 2 (5), April, 2015)
