
Explore how Scrum serves as a project management approach with feedback loops from the environment, contrasting it with Six Sigma's aim to reduce deviation relative to a norm.
Discover the origin of Prince 2, a second-generation framework for projects in controlled environments created by the UK CCTA in 1989 to tackle escalating IT project complexity.
Explore the original Agile Manifesto, its four values and 12 principles, and see how agile extends beyond software to other sectors while remaining an umbrella for tools and lean ideas.
Explore total quality management (tqm) as an organization-wide approach to quality, contrasting Lean's waste reduction and Six Sigma's variation control, with Kaizen-style continuous improvement and Deming's pioneering influence.
Overview of management approaches and frameworks like Lean, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, 8D, TQM, Kaizen, Waterfall, TQM etc.
Welcome to our course. Once you enter the corporate environment, you are often confronted with many words that describe management frameworks, management philosophies and management methodologies. You will hear words like:
Agile
Scrum
PRINCE 2
TQM
Kanban
Lean
Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma
Kaizen
Waterfall
But what do these words actually mean? Perhaps you do not have the time and patience to become an absolute master of all of them, but nevertheless you do want to have at least a basic overview, see what their essence is and also how they relate to each other. Well, in that case this course is made for you. In a relatively short amount of time we will familiarize you with the basic meaning of for example agile, scrum, lean, six sigma, lean six sigma, kaizen, waterfall etc.
SIX SIGMA ACADEMY AMSTRDAM
This training is provided by Six Sigma Academy Amsterdam (SSAA), a well established training institute that was set up by a team of university lecturers from the Netherlands with the aim of providing affordable, accessible and engaging academic quality education worldwide. We wish you a lot of fun with the course that our team has designed for you.
Team SSAA