Six Sigma Project Project Roadmap
This is a practical guide to building a project roadmap for a six sigma project project — a strategic, outcome-oriented view of direction over time, adapted to the realities of reducing defects and variation in a process.
What a Project Roadmap is
A project roadmap is a strategic, outcome-oriented view of direction over time. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Roadmap. 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 roadmap 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
- Themes / workstreams
- Milestones by quarter
- Dependencies
- Outcomes
Six Sigma Project-specific considerations
Tailor the project roadmap 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 roadmap 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.