Many factors will influence the length of time that it takes to complete Six Sigma Projects. However, you should have a general idea in mind through the development of your project charter to determine how long you will spend on a particular process improvement.
You should never rush Projects, but you should also never drag them out for longer than they need to be going on. ultimately, the length of time that it will take to complete an entire Six Sigma Process is the length of time it takes you to complete all the steps and improve the process. In actuality, the goal of process improvement is to keep it going. Therefore, even when you have completed the process improvement, it is important to ensure that it stays as efficient as it started out to be.
This results in two answers to the question at hand. The first answer is that Projects will be done when the desired results have been achieved. Essentially, the team will no longer have to work on that specific process improvement because they have developed a solution and a continuous improvement plan to take care of it. However, you could look at it from the perspective that since process improvements are continuous projects, that they will never be completely done.
It doesn't matter which way you look at it, because both of these are essentially the right answer to the question. If you have a process that you set out in your project charter to complete in less than a month, you should beat your deadlines unless unknown road blocks come up at some point that prohibit you from finishing. If you are new to Six Sigma Projects, they may take you a little longer to complete than someone who has been doing them for a period of time. However, you should still be realistic in your deadlines and work as quickly and effectively as you can to get the process improvements than it should. The more efficient your process improvement projects are, the more quickly your company will be operating better and adding more to the bottom line.
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