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Project Charters: What They Are & How to Use Them

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Within the Lean Six Sigma world, the Project Charter serves as a contract between an improvement team and the Project Sponsor or Champion. It provides essential clarity to everyone involved as to what they’ve all agreed to deliver. It helps to align the team with each other, with the Sponsor…

Are projects typically approved before an A3 is created?

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Are projects typically approved before an A3 is created? How common is it for teams to use A3’s as project Charters? Yes, the project should be approved in the early stages of A3 use. A DMAIC project charter outlines the initial elements of a project including a problem and goal statement, scope, a business case,…

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Scope (aka Project Scope)

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The Project Scope has two basic components. The most important is the beginning and end of the process being addressed - the "Start" and "Stop" points - which is most often outlined in the SIPOC. The second part of the project scope addresses what's "In" versus what's "Out" in terms…