Six-sigma disease was all over the place, unfortunately. I spent seven
years with Motorola, in their former Communications Sector, and it always felt
like we spent more time on politics and "quality meetings" than we did actually
doing what we were, supposedly, hired to do (fix things!)
Boeing was just as bad, if not worse. Spent six years there, mostly in
computing support. Upper management got all excited about some bizarre book
called "Who Moved My Cheese?" and something equally bizarre called "Tiger
Teams."
I suppose it all meant something to the paper-pushers. To those of us
on the tech/engineering side, it was worse than useless as it tended to
distract from doing a good job.
As for "ISO 9001" or whatever -- Don't even get me started!
Keep the peace(es).
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On 11-Sep-11 at 19:03 [email protected] wrote:
>At 05:10 PM 9/11/2011, Jim Lux wrote...
>
>>that's a classic quote from Deming
>
>Was it Deming, or the follow-lings who decided that "six-sigma" is
>really 4.5 sigma, because the former isn't realistic (or isn't
>alliterative)? A former employer put me through that BS, along with ISO
>900*, which amounts to "you can make crap, as long as you document it
>and try to do better."
>
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