Having just completed my third and second to last week of black belt training, I’m already thinking of some excuses. This combined with other things I’ve heard from more experienced black belts, even master black belts I hope to get you to smile. Hey, if you’ve got ideas for more let me know and we’ll throw it in!
Top six sigma black belt excuses
1. It depends
2. The data isn’t normal
3. I didn’t complete this FMEA
4. The project charter was unclear
5. I didn’t know you wanted an attribute MSA
6. I forgot to use the Poisson distribution for defects
7. I was looking at the Cpk instead of the Ppk
8. I was running Minitab 14 tied with my Minitab license expired – couldn’t get Minitab 15
9. I can’t put more than 65535 rows in Excel and 255 columns
10. I’m a Six Sigma Black Belt – but not yet certified.
And bonus
11. I’m a DMAIC Six Sigma Black Belt – this is a DFSS project
So true! good top 10 article.