| | |  | Lean Six Sigma | Home » » » » The Big Book of Six Sigma Training Games: Proven Ways to Teach Basic DMAIC Principles and Quality Improvement Tools (Big Book Series) | | | | | | | Description: | | An effective and engaging way employees can learn Six Sigma and put its concepts into play Part of the popular Big Book of Games series, which capitalizes on the proven effective method for workplace training, this first book of training games for Six Sigma ensures that employees will better retain Six Sigma's complex topics. This invaluable tool offers 50 experiential activities that teach the core improvement approach of Six Sigma, called DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), as well as many of the popular statistical improvement tools, including Pareto charts and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). These games: - Teach Six Sigma roles and organization
- Gear the team up for success
- Identify problems and generate solutions
- Teach project management
- Help teams understand the need for Six Sigma
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Chris Chen | | Paperback:
| 250 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill | | Publication Date:
| November 11, 2004 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0071443851 | | Product Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.68 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.98 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.13 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.32 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.71 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.01 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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39 of 43 found the following review helpful:
 Stale Exercises Repackaged Under a Selling TitleMar 18, 2005
By Sigmordial
"MBB"
The title lured me to purchase this book -- what I have found are a lot of stale exercises with some slight changes. I have really found nothing that I can add to how I train GB, BB, and MBBs from this book. Here are my 2 biggest observations:
Target audience -- appears that this was written for professional organizational teachers and not the MBBs that typically pitch the Six Sigma training. Shared this with several of my peers (MBBs) and they quickly lost interest. Too much effort appears to have been focused on the styling of the book rather than the substance of the exercises.
Timing -- quite a few of the exercises require way too much time to set up, conduct, and debrief. The return on this time really will not provide an illustration of the concept and application of the tools. Looks like a couple of the data analysis exercises will require a large amount of time to enter the data provided, and then share this with the students.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Great Book for MBB InstructorsMar 22, 2005
By A. Abranches
"Book Lover"
This book was just right for us. It had the right mix of exercises that made the DMAIC steps more fun to teach and ensured that the class got engaged with the material.
I liked the fact that it also had exercises on Change Management and Team Dynamics
What I found most useful was the website that gives all datasets and template which made preparation for the exercises a breeze.
Here is the website it would be hard to use without the book but you can go take a look and see if has stuff that interests you.
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/training/download/0071443851/
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Nice ideas....missing something(s)Jun 14, 2006
By Marcel Ekkel
"Project and Program Manager | Traveler | Diver | Husband"
I bought the book to get some inspiration for excercises I could use.
It does cover te DMAIC series and shines light from different directions. Which is good as it covers many areas involved in improvement projects. I feel that the begin of the book is stronger then the end of the book.
There is one area I miss in the Analyse area. It doesn't touch base at all on the use of ishikawa diagrams, fmea etc. It focusses more on the data in this area. Data is important, however the underlying cause can be a bit further away.
The further I get in the book the more I miss.
Happy reading!
Marcel Ekkel
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Do not buy this bookJun 17, 2006
By Brian L. Eden
"BE"
A bunch of junk. Not any of the really meaty excersises. An excuse for the auhor to make money.
6 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Great book of gamesSep 26, 2005
By G. Martin Caro Rosales
"Jerry"
The book is excelente because the most of time, we as a trainers, we didn't have enough exercises in group in the six sigma trainings and the courses could be boring to the students. However with a learning material like the contents of this book fills this gap for us, the trainers.
Best regards
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