Six Sigma Project Gantt Chart
This is a practical guide to building a gantt chart for a six sigma project project — a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies, adapted to the realities of reducing defects and variation in a process.
What a Gantt Chart is
A gantt chart is a bar-chart view of the schedule showing tasks, durations and dependencies. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Gantt Chart. On a six sigma project project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Six Sigma Project project
Six Sigma Project projects live or die on reducing defects and variation in a process. A well-built gantt chart gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how six sigma project projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Task bars by start/end date
- Dependency links
- Milestones
- Owners/resources
- Baseline overlay
Six Sigma Project-specific considerations
Tailor the gantt chart to the risks that most often derail six sigma project projects:
- Data availability
- Root-cause complexity
- Sustaining control
Example
On a real six sigma project project, the gantt chart would be shaped by reducing defects and variation in a process. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — data availability, root-cause complexity, sustaining control — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.