six-sigma-dmaic

Guides a Six Sigma DMAIC cycle to improve an existing process. The discipline is data over opinion and causes over symptoms.

The five phases, their gate questions, and the pitfalls live in references/dmaic.md. Load that file before facilitating.

When to use

The user wants to fix an existing process where data can be gathered: reducing defects, errors, cycle time, or variation. For designing a new process from scratch, DMAIC does not apply (DMADV does). For a lighter, faster improvement loop without heavy measurement, prefer PDCA.

Language

Facilitate and write the document in the language the user is writing in. The reference file is English; keep the framework keyed to it regardless of output language.

Inputs

• PROCESS (required): the process and the problem with it.
• CONTEXT (optional): available data, the customer and their requirements, scope limits, and the process owner.