tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10746417044207895212024-02-19T17:07:40.251-08:00Dr. MMV's Quality & Statistics BlogThoughts on Lean Six Sigma training and implementation from a PhD statistician, ASQ certified Black Belt, published author, former tenured professor and current training developer!Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-73258224071260632292021-01-14T20:58:00.004-08:002021-01-15T11:14:18.316-08:00 Stakeholder Analysis: People > Tools
"If your improvement project fails, it won’t be because you don’t know
enough math; it will be because you don’t know enough about people.”
Early in my engineering career, I got a promotion and was transferred to a production facility, tasked with developing and implementing a new quality improvement program. I worked hard to develop an Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-35289017164447437592020-10-14T12:28:00.016-07:002020-11-23T13:38:45.906-08:00 The Misadventures
of an Online Instructor
Teaching online? That takes knowledge, dedication and organizational skills. Teaching online at the dining room table with kids underfoot? Now, that takes a true professional! Ancient history
I’ve been teaching online statistics classes since 2003—ancient
times, technology-wise. Back then, we augmented our pre-recorded voice-over PowerPoint Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-14334688398274012732016-02-10T10:05:00.002-08:002020-11-23T13:39:04.121-08:00Writing & Publishing a Book with ASQ Quality Press - Part 3Writing the Manuscript
Earning a book contract may give you a great sense of accomplishment, but don’t rest on your laurels for too long! Signing the final contract starts the clock ticking toward your submission deadline. You already have three chapters written from the proposal, so you do have a head start. Your detailed table of contents will now become the roadmap for your writing project.
Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-30324745346618447552016-02-03T07:27:00.003-08:002020-11-23T13:39:17.974-08:00Writing & Publishing a Book with ASQ Quality Press - Part 2Crafting the Book Proposal
The ASQ website gives potential authors specific guidelines on how to construct the book proposal. See http://asq.org/quality-press/become-an-author/index.html
The book proposal consists of seven sections:
1. the title of the book
2. an analysis of the market for the book and the current competition
3. the author’s biographical sketch
4. the book’s estimated length andDr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-9585316883891730212016-01-31T20:30:00.002-08:002020-11-23T13:39:34.668-08:00Writing & Publishing a Book with ASQ Quality Press - Part 1If you are like most people, you probably have entertained the notion of writing a book. Maybe you imagine writing a memoir, a family history, or a crime novel. For those of you with a more technical, Quality bent, perhaps your aspirations lean more towards writing a book on Six Sigma leadership skills, Hoshin Kanri, or statistical sampling. If this is the case, how can you go about writing a Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-68443047265145709362016-01-29T12:17:00.001-08:002020-11-23T13:39:45.918-08:00An ASQ Exam Chair Reveals AllWhat Did You Do Last Weekend?Last month, I was indoors on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, surrounded by five open statistics textbooks, gripping my calculator as I performed yet another calculation for the ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt exam. I wasn't missing out on my weekend with a group of like-minded quality professionals though. I wasn't even nervously watching the clock: I was Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-32754651232320124562016-01-28T05:34:00.001-08:002020-11-23T13:39:56.995-08:00An ASQ Exam Review Workshop Survival Guide
So you’ve been invited to an Exam Review Workshop. Congratulations! You've done your pre-work and made it to Milwaukee. Now, here’s what to expect.
The conference room that will be home for the next two days is just to the left of the wall of photos of all the past ASQ presidents and the display case with Dr. Deming’s Red Bead Experiment. The room itself is huge, with a wall of windows looking Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074641704420789521.post-39310400324156190252016-01-27T12:56:00.001-08:002020-11-23T13:40:07.435-08:00Statistical Rules of Thumb and the 3.4 dpmo DilemmaThere are a lot of quality consultants out there touting "quick and dirty" statistical methods: easy ways to get an answer without all that inconvenient math. Short course students leave their Become a Statistician in Two Days classes armed with rules of thumb, quick reference guides, and flow charts of simplified methods. Do these methods work? Yes and no. They do perform as advertised: giving Dr. MMVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02422863828508992479noreply@blogger.com3