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Who. Cares. I worked at a company 8 or 9 years ago that kept hiring all of these Six Sigma Black Belts who sat around _doing nothing_, earning high salaries an
by busterarm 7y ago
Who. Cares.
I worked at a company 8 or 9 years ago that kept hiring all of these Six Sigma Black Belts who sat around _doing nothing_, earning high salaries and making all of the wrong moves. Didn't stop our stock from sliding into the sub-dollar range.
- at-fates-hands 7y agoHad the same thing happen at a company I was first hired at as a developer back in 2008. They hired a director from outside the company because Six Sigma was still kind of a big deal and he was a black belt. It took them two years of consistent failure to figure out Agile was the way you did software development, not applying Six Sigma industrial manufacturing principles to software development. The amount of analytics and metrics we were responsible for was insane under that director. I lasted two months before I tapped out.
- Yhippa 7y ago> to figure out Agile was the way you did software development This is the problem. This stuff gets cargo culted from one fad to another. I'm curious to see what comes after Agile. Oh wait! I actually have the answer. It's called GROWS: https://toolshed.com/2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html https://toolshed.com/2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html
- sgt101 7y agofrom the link "it's an idea". I notice that evidence is mentioned further down, but evidence that this will work, has worked or might work in the future, well, I see none.
- derekp7 7y agoDid that company happen to have a logo that looked like the Batman Signal?
- vonmoltke 7y agoYou mean the company that created Six Sigma?
- EForEndeavour 7y agoSerious question: which company are you referring to?
- stan_rogers 7y agoThat would be Motorola.
- lacampbell 7y agoWhere might one acquire these black belts? (I've got bills to pay)
- falcongod082 7y agoGo into consulting.
- bitL 7y agoSUN used to be like that in its final phase - six sigmas everywhere, people teaching how to use "neurolinguistic programming" to achieve one's goals, cool zen-buddhist priests in management, and the bottom fell out...