Thomas Pyzdek and Six Sigma--Quality Digest Columnist
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Two Sigma: Usability and Six Sigma
Quality Assurance
Two Sigma: Usability and Six Sigma
Quality Assurance
12/02/2003 02:00 AMThomas Friedman Shoves Man For Saying
'That The Columnist Was Willing To
“sacrifice Israel On The Altar Of Iraq.”
(Bizarre)
Thomas Friedman Shoves Man For Saying
'That The Columnist Was Willing To
“sacrifice Israel On The Altar Of Iraq.”
(Bizarre)
12/11/2003 07:20 AMNew York Sun ..
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Quality assurance: Does QA really assure
quality?
Quality assurance: Does QA really assure
quality?
07/14/2002 11:29 PMCNET Jul 14 2002 10:13PM ET
Sigma Six 1.0 (Default branch)
Sigma Six 1.0 (Default branch)
03/30/2005 09:04 AM
Sigma Six is a Web-based interface to help manage
your six sigma project management implementation.
It can manage six sigma project problem details,
milestones, isssues, and action items.
Six Sigma for Revenue Generation
Six Sigma for Revenue Generation
11/17/2003 03:11 PMmarcus evans Nov 17 2003 1:14PM ET
A Six Sigma Approach to Security
A Six Sigma Approach to Security
09/07/2004 03:01 AMHow sure are you that your security policy is effective. Let's say
that it is, so how effective is it? What costs are incurred by the
policy, and I don't mean just monetary. One way to answer these
questions and ensure the policy is not only effective, but also
efficient, is to apply the Six Sigma approach.
I'm meeting more and more IT folk who are Six Sigma trained, either
Black Belt or in training for the recognition. A Black Belt must be
able to explain the philosophies and principles of the quality
program, including how systems, tools, processes, and continuous
improvement can best be applied at multiple management levels and to
diverse business processes throughout the organization., (quality,
process/continuous improvement, etc.) and will be able to apply them
in various business processes throughout the organization. However,
quality is frequently mentioned in terms of product development and
manufacturing. I think that it must also be applied to digital
security.
Who is responsible for the security of digital assets? Each and
every employee who has contact with the data must understand that
she's responsible for the data's security, to the extent authorized by
her corporate authority. However, policies based on making everyone
responsible rarely succeed, be cause ultimately, no one accepts the
personal responsibility. By using a Six Sigma approach, the security
analyst starts at the other end, rather than the corporate user of
data, the analysis begins with the customer, ultimately the real end
user of corporate data. The Six Sigma process can evaluate security
holes, causes, and what long-term affects intermediate actions have by
evaluating the number of times customer service has been affected by
security failures.
Dave's Opinion
The Six Sigma approach to effectiveness and quality assurance is based
on ensuring no failures occur. Sigma is used to mean deviations from
the norm: defects from perfect quality. Six Sigma means that only 3.4
defects per million occur.
The Six Sigma approach is popular in many management applications,
not just information technology; however, I have rarely seen it
applied to security management. Maybe, it's time.
Call for Comments
What do you think? Leave your comments below.
References
Six Sigma
101 Things A Six Sigma Black
Belt Should Know
Sigma Six 1.03 (Default branch)
Sigma Six 1.03 (Default branch)
06/24/2005 07:15 PM
Sigma Six is a Web-based interface to help manage
your six sigma project management implementation.
It can manage six sigma project problem details,
milestones, isssues, and action items.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
Changes:
This release fixes some spelling errors found in
the template file.
Sigma Six 1.01 (Default branch)
Sigma Six 1.01 (Default branch)
04/14/2005 06:43 AM
Sigma Six is a Web-based interface to help manage
your six sigma project management implementation.
It can manage six sigma project problem details,
milestones, isssues, and action items.
Changes:
The readme file with setup instructions was included
with this release.
The Microsoft Office Solution
Accelerator for Six Sigma
The Microsoft Office Solution
Accelerator for Six Sigma
05/27/2004 03:09 AMThe Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma is an
integrated set of products and services customized for Six Sigma
practitioners.
The accelerator can help Six Sigma project teams more effectively
manage a large number of projects, more easily track their financial
impact, optimize and track resources, and electronically share
knowledge gathered across the enterprise.
Microsoft Boosts Office Solution
Accelerator for Six Sigma
Microsoft Boosts Office Solution
Accelerator for Six Sigma
05/21/2004 02:10 PMMicrosoft Corp. today announced the release of new enhancements for
the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Six Sigma designed to
help businesses cut costs, improve processes and reduce the time it
takes to complete projects. Available starting next week at no charge
to all Microsoft® industry partners and customers, the accelerator,
which now fully leverages support for the new Microsoft Office System,
delivers standardized tools, support and structured implementation
methods that are crucial to successful Six Sigma adoption, enabling
customers to get more out of their information technology (IT)
investments.
Six Sigma Potential Customer Defect
Reductions for Manufacturer’s Websites
Six Sigma Potential Customer Defect
Reductions for Manufacturer’s Websites
12/30/2004 05:06 AMSix Sigma Potential Customer Defect Reductions for Manufacturer’s
Websites [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]
Six Sigma Potential Customer Cycle Time
Reductions for Manufacturer’s Websites
Six Sigma Potential Customer Cycle Time
Reductions for Manufacturer’s Websites
12/31/2004 04:16 AMSix Sigma Potential Customer Cycle Time Reductions for Manufacturer’s
Websites [PRWEB Dec 31, 2004]
Baxa Corporation Completes Six Sigma
Training for Problem-Solving and Process
Improvement
Baxa Corporation Completes Six Sigma
Training for Problem-Solving and Process
Improvement
06/11/2004 02:01 AMBaxa Corporation announces the completion of a pilot training program
in the Six Sigma methodology. Funded by a government grant, Baxa
trained a select cross-functional team in the process and practices of
Six Sigma to kick off a broader-based program. The ten-week course
recently "graduated" its attendees to move on to create measurable
results through hands-on implementation of the program's tools and
methods throughout the company. [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
OneConnect Selects Sigma OmniCare for
VoIP Customer Care and Billing Services
OneConnect Selects Sigma OmniCare for
VoIP Customer Care and Billing Services
09/23/2004 03:12 AMSigma Software, a leading provider of customer,order and revenue
management solutions, today announced that OneConnect, an independent
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company,
hasselected Sigma OmniCare(tm) to manage its customer care and billing
functions. [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]
Sigma Selects LXE MX6 Mobile Computers
as Key Part of Replacement Healthcare
System Project
Sigma Selects LXE MX6 Mobile Computers
as Key Part of Replacement Healthcare
System Project
06/30/2004 02:49 AM [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]
Sigma Launches the First All-Format
Media Processor Offering High Definition
Support for H.264, WMV9/VC-1, and
MPEG-2.
Sigma Launches the First All-Format
Media Processor Offering High Definition
Support for H.264, WMV9/VC-1, and
MPEG-2.
01/06/2005 10:26 PMSig
ma Launches the First All-Format Media Processor Offering High
Definition Support for H.264, WMV9/VC-1, and MPEG-2. Are you
seeing this, Roku?
Hey Mom! I'm a Columnist Now!
Hey Mom! I'm a Columnist Now!
11/25/2002 11:57 AMHey Mom! I'm a Columnist Now!
Yes that's right -- soon you can catch even more of my drivel and even
read it in dead tree format without having to put paper in the
printer. I'm now the "On the Horizon" columnist for the forth coming
PHP Journal magazine. On the Horizon talks about the new things
coming in PHP 4.3 / 5.0 so if anyone has input on that, let me know.
And I do have to put in a plug for the PHP Journal folks who are also
the same ones that put out Linux Magazine. What a nice group of
people. I've worked with a lot of folks putting on conferences before
and while I've rarely met such nice people I have NEVER been paid on
the spot before. I was a speaker, showed up and they had a check
ready and waiting and just needed me to fill out the 1099 form.
That's classy.
WSJ columnist on iPod accessories
WSJ columnist on iPod accessories
06/23/2004 05:59 AMIn his "The Mossberg Solution" column for The Wall Street Journal
today, Walt Mossberg reviews a number of accessories available for
iPods...
Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger
10/30/2003 11:26 AMSkype won't make it, says WSJ columnist
Skype won't make it, says WSJ columnist
11/04/2003 07:33 AMZennstrom replies
Op-Ed Columnist: Swords Into Plowshares
Op-Ed Columnist: Swords Into Plowshares
11/16/2003 08:09 AMNYT twat David Brooks argues .. strategy ..
column
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Alf Escoba comes to 'Macsimum' as
columnist
Alf Escoba comes to 'Macsimum' as
columnist
06/24/2004 09:56 AMAlfonso Tejedor Escoba, content manager of Faq-Mac, has joined
Macsimum Perspective, a site devoted to Mac reviews and opinions, as a
columnist...
"
Op-Ed Columnist: Don’t Stop Dean"
"
Op-Ed Columnist: Don’t Stop Dean"
12/24/2003 09:20 PMOp-Ed Columnist: Running on Reform
Op-Ed Columnist: Running on Reform
01/04/2004 06:13 AMGOP is going to have to do .. David Brooks ..
Link:
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Op-Ed Columnist: Arguing With Oakeshott
Op-Ed Columnist: Arguing With Oakeshott
12/28/2003 06:33 AMone revolution that worked .. tries to argue today .. awful hack ..
alert
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Op-Ed Columnist: Don’t Stop Dean
Op-Ed Columnist: Don’t Stop Dean
12/24/2003 04:53 PMhorse-race crap .. possibility .. Bill Safire ..
column
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Thief of Baghdad
Op-Ed Columnist: The Thief of Baghdad
02/15/2004 02:36 PMAhmad Chalabi .. MoDo
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Op-Ed Columnist: Keeping the Faith
Op-Ed Columnist: Keeping the Faith
01/22/2004 02:13 AMexplains to us all .. David Brooks' .. Republican ..
column
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Howard Dean, columnist
Howard Dean, columnist
06/02/2004 11:53 AMOp-Ed Columnist: Found: A Smoking Gun
Op-Ed Columnist: Found: A Smoking Gun
02/12/2004 11:17 AMSaddam-Al Qaeda connection .. William Safire offers .. 17-page
letter
nytimes.com/2004/02/11/opinion/11SAFI.html
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vowe dot net :: Columnist apologizes
vowe dot net :: Columnist apologizes
08/21/2004 07:11 AMColumnist apologizes
vowe.net/archives/004840.html
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"Thomas Friedman"
"Thomas Friedman"
01/10/2004 03:53 AMThomas Morton
Thomas Morton
05/17/2004 11:55 PM
The
Pagan Pilgrim: Th
omas Morton and the
M
aypole of
Merrymount.
Thomas Keller and Per Se
Thomas Keller and Per Se
05/17/2004 02:42 PMBig article in New York about my favorite chef Thomas
Keller and his new restaurant in New York City, The Perfectionist Gets Burned: How
Thomas Keller survived the fire that almost took down Per Se.
"Just the other day, Thomas was so proud to show me
how they use painter's tape in the kitchen," [The French Laundry
Cookbook co-author Michael] Ruhlman says, visiting the Per Se
kitchen one afternoon. Instead of tearing the tape from the roll to,
say, label the plastic deli cups that hold the ingredients at each
mise en place, every strip of tape at Per Se is cut with scissors,
every edge perfectly straight. Immaculate. "Because it's all one thing
to Thomas. You can't be lax in one area and perfect in another.
"It's not about the sweeping vision," Ruhlman adds.
"It's about the minute vision. There are no big decisions. A great
restaurant is the result of a thousand little decisions. A place like
this is just composed of details. It's a pointillist picture. So every
night after service, you'll see Thomas down on his knees, scrubbing
out the cupboards."
Ah, that sounds like the Thomas Keller who charmed me as I read
Michael Rhulman's wonderful book, The
Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection. I love the minute
vision, the focus on the thousand little decisions, making sure each
one is as right as it can be. Of course, such perfectionism is
exhausting, but I think that's just how I'm made. And reading this
makes me want to take back what I said the other day about not wanting
to eat at Per Se. Maybe I do after all...
A Doubting Thomas
A Doubting Thomas
03/06/2004 01:56 AMMac user and useability critic
Matthew
Thomas has only just made the switch from OS 9 to OS X and in his
post
My First 48
Hours Enduring Mac OS X, lists 48 niggling flaws and
inconsistencies he has spotted while getting to grips with the OS for
the first time.
[via
Daring Fireball]
Toronto Sun Columnist: Coren - It's
religion gone mad
Toronto Sun Columnist: Coren - It's
religion gone mad
04/18/2004 01:41 AMThis is something deeper, darker, than an imagined fight against a
foreign foe .. Toronto Sun Columnist: Coren - It's religion gone mad
.. the
truth
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Skype wont make it, says WSJ columnist
Skype wont make it, says WSJ columnist
11/04/2003 08:43 AMThe Register Nov 4 2003 7:37AM ET
Disney parks gossip columnist
Disney parks gossip columnist
07/27/2004 02:58 PMAn anonymous reader writes, "MiceAge.com is sort of a gossipy (and
many times quite bitchy) site devoted to all the latest going-ons at
the happiest place on earth. Diehard fans of the place either loathe
Al Lutz's almost weekly tidbits about operating problems and weak
attendance at the new companion California Adventure park or love the
many photos and the latest plans to update or replace attractions.
This week Al posted about a recent visit by Michael Eisner to try and
chat up the cast members, only to end up proving how out of touch he
is with what is going on. Last week Sue Kruse in a very funny piece
detailed just what was involved as far as the public goes with a
staged 50th anniversary event. In an internet ocean of fawning Disney
sites, MiceAge stands out if only for trying to just try and tell it
like it is."
When Eisner did show up at that particular cafeteria in a pitiful
attempt to rub elbows with the masses, he only really succeeded in
proving how out-of-touch he is and how little about the Parks he
actually knows. As the cafeteria took notice of Eisner's arrival,
which was hard to miss due to the big entourage accompanying him,
Eisner put forth his best political skills and tried to make friends.
He marched right up to two college aged guys wearing Adventureland
costumes waiting for their cheeseburgers and said "Hi fellas, where do
you guys work?" The two Cast Members dutifully replied "We work at the
Jungle Cruise, sir." Eisner broke into a broad and forced smile and
said "Hey, that must be a lot of fun! I'd love to be able to drive
that boat around all day, making those jokes and shooting at the
hippo's like you do!" And without missing a beat, one of the Jungle
Cruise Skippers said "We don't get to shoot at the hippo's anymore
sir. They took the guns away three years ago." Eisner could only
stammer, "Oh, they did? I didn't know that..." before he moved on down
the line for the next forced smile and handshake. (By the way, the
plan is still on to reverse Paul Pressler's silly and overly PC
decision and bring back the guns to Jungle Cruise that we'd told you
about in a previous update.)
LinkOp-Ed Columnist Friedman: Moment of
Truth
Op-Ed Columnist Friedman: Moment of
Truth
12/19/2003 11:42 AMgleefully joined
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