Tweet I am working on a project to enhance a software package.  To guide the programmers, I wrote a functional specification for the software.  I know that you should never tell programmers what you want, you only tell them what you want it to do.  If you have only provided information on the user function, [...]

Tweet A student is given a project to stream line  a process.  What does this mean? I believe that this type of poorly defined projects come when organizations are trolling for projects rather than using the organizational performance gaps to pull for projects.  But either way, this was an assigned project, so what do they [...]

Tweet After listening to Green Belt student presentations yesterday, I sat down with the Lean Six Sigma leader for my client. We had a long discussion about a few comments from the students. A few of them claimed that they did not have management support. This surprised me, and him, since they were being sent [...]