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What Six Sigma Black Belts Must Know

posted by john in Six Sigma on November 11, 2009

The success of any Six Sigma initiative depends on the ability of the professionals, who are entrusted with the task of implementing the 6 Sigma concepts and methodologies. Business organizations often employ Six Sigma Black Belts, who are qualified and certified by the parent company. However, qualification and certification are not the only prerequisites. Black [...]

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Six Sigma and Agile Software Development

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Six Sigma on

The term Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) describes a class of methodologies for software development where the system grows incrementally through a series of complete development cycles. Agile software development methods are a group of specific iterative methodologies that combine relatively short iterations with evolutionary refinement of the requirements, plans and targets across each subsequent [...]

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Six Sigma In The Software Industry

posted by john in ISO 9001:2000, Planning, SEI CMM, Six Sigma on

Six Sigma in the software industry must have caused a few eyelids to bat in its early days. Six Sigma in manufacturing is completely understandable. For the same logic to apply to software products, it still has a long way to go to establish itself. However, for the moment it is safe to assume that [...]

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