This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.

Framework and Methodology

"PDSA Initiate" Process Group
"PDSAPlan" Process Group
Project Management Plan
Project Management Scope
Collecting V.O.C. Requirements
Work Breakdown Structure
Time Management Plan
Project Schedule Plan
Resources Management Plan
Quality Management Plan
Collecting V.O.C. Requirements
Experimental Study
Cost Management Plan
Procurement Management Plan
Communication Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Project Retrospective
Assessment of the Overall Plan and Implementation
Conclusion to "PDSA Plan"
"PDSA Do" Process Group
Build Deliverables
Explore Cause-and-Effect Relationship
Verifying Identified Assignable Causes
Analysis of Process Steps and Tasks
Generation of Improvement Solutions
Monitoring and Controlling Execution
Conclusion to "PDSA Do"
"PDSA Study" Process Group
Study Deliverables
Monitor and Control Study Execution
Conclusion to "PDSA Study"
"PDSA Act" Process Group
Conclusion
Epilogue.