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Six Sigma Project Project Checklist

This is a practical guide to building a project checklist for a six sigma project project — a step-by-step checklist covering the project from start to finish, adapted to the realities of reducing defects and variation in a process.

What a Project Checklist is

A project checklist is a step-by-step checklist covering the project from start to finish. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Management Checklist. 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 project checklist 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

  • Initiation checks
  • Planning checks
  • Execution checks
  • Closure checks

Six Sigma Project-specific considerations

Tailor the project checklist 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 project checklist 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.