Six Sigma

Six Sigma seeks to identify and resolve the causes of defects and errors in engineering and business processes.

It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization who are experts in these methods.

Each 6 Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets.

History Motorola developed 6 Sigma in response to a challenge from their management to reduce product failures. At it's core, it is a set of practices that improves processes through defect reduction. Although, Motorola is credited with the creation of the practices, many believe they evolved from earlier methodologies like, Quality Control and Zero Defects.

The goal is to improve customer satisfaction and profitability through the reduction of defects.

• Everything is a process
• All processes have an inherent variable
• The data is used to interpret the variability which is used to drive process improvement

• Define
• Measure
• Analyze
• Improve
• Control

Much in the same way that SCM helps in supporting CMM and CMMI, SCM best practices a provide strong foundation in supporting continuous process improvements.

In addition, 6 Sigma will help in identifying weak and problem areas in you SCM processes.

6 Sigma.us offers courses, training and certification in Green Belt, Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Champion and Lean 6 Sigma certification.

For other Information Technology practices and processes like Six Sigma and SOX

There are several different Software Development Life Cycle Methods.

Some have been around for years and years and some are relatively new.

• Waterfall
• Iterative
• Top-Down
• Feature Driven
• Prototyping
• Hybrid
• Object-Oriented
• Agile

For more information about Software Development Life Cycles Models

Software Development Processes are standards that a Software Development Team uses to help manage, control and report on their software development.

Here are some very typical SDP Steps:

• Plan
• Define
• Construct
• Test
• Deploy

For more information about Software Development Process

There are many Software Engineering Best Practices.

Here are some of the more commonly used SE Best Practices

• Iteratively Develop Software
• Actively Manage Specifications and Requirements
• Develop and Leverage Component-based Software
• Continuously Review and Improve your Software Development Practices
• Verify and Quantify Software Quality
• Manage Software Change

For more information about Software Engineering Best Practices

Definition of Information Technology Definition of Information Technology describes the primary function of Information Technology. Along with the scope of IT Services and Technologies provides to the Information Technology Services Customers.

Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is the use of Internet computer and software technologies to provide a variety of computer services. It is more than virtual servers. It is a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. The name Cloud comes from the common diagram of the Internet as it is often depicted in computer network diagrams.

Disaster Recovery The purpose of this page is to establish a standard for disaster recovery for systems, applications and their configurations.

ITIL ITIL, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of best practices that support the delivery of Information Technology Services.

ITIL V3 ITIL v3, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of best practices that support the delivery of Information Technology Services.

Six Sigma Six Sigma seeks to identify and resolve the causes of defects and errors in engineering and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets.

SOA Strategies SOA Strategies, the importance of IT articulating the value of its technology strategy to corporate decision makers, the correlation between architecture and successful business-driven initiatives such as cloud computing and software as a service, and how to avoid common architecture mistakes.

SOX SOX, Sarbanes Oxley, reporting and testing requirements are mandating formal approvals and reviews of people who have access to application source code.

SOX Source Code SOX Source Code how to maintain a SOX audit for source code control, you must maintain access control and provide an audit trail of access.

SCMWise Software Configuration Management SCMWise is dedicated to SCM. This site is a central repository for the collection of best practices, processes, methodologies and tools that surround SCM.