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Best Six Sigma Quality Management

The Six Sigma Handbook, Fourth Edition
The most complete, current guide to Six Sigma “Best practices in Six Sigma are continuously evolving, just as Six Sigma itself evolved from earlier best practices in quality improvement. Two online quizzes for Six Sigma certification, one for Green Belt candidates and one for Black Belt candidates Links to five videos that walk you through specific processes, such as Minitab functions, statistical process control, and how to read a Pareto chart Fully incorporated coverage of Lean methodologies. Building the responsive Six Sigma organization Recognizing and capitalizing on opportunity Data-driven management Maximizing resources Project management using DMAIC and DMADV The define phase The measure phase Process behavior charts Measurement systems evaluation The analyze phase The improve/design phase The control/verify phase. His online courses and training materials are available through select colleges and universities worldwide, as well as through Quality America’s website. In addition to a number of published articles in quality improvement, Keller has authored Six Sigma Demystified (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Statistical Process Control Demystified (McGraw-Hill, 2011), and co-authored (with Pyzdek) The Handbook for Quality Management , Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2011) and the third and fourth editions of The Six Sigma Handbook .
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"one of best in the field of Six Sigma no problems and this version (Overseas) has no errors/ bad bindings or missing pages/misprints etc...Saved me a lot of cash buying this version...awesome."
"Learning Six Sigma for work, this book is overwhelming but a good source for information."
"This book has a lot of info."
"Very comprehensive and detailed."
"If there is one negative regarding the book is that the foreign printed book used slightly thinner and cheaper paper."
"Needed that to pass my tests."
"Needed this to take a six sigma course for my Green Belt certification."
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The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook is today's most complete and results-based reference to the tools and concepts needed to understand, implement, and leverage Lean Six Sigma.
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"Great book, Excellent Condition."
"Great book!"
"Great for a quick reference."
"An excellent Lean Six Sigma book to walk students through the LSS process."
"If you want to learn six sigma and understand the concept, this is the book you will ever need."
"The books are useful in assisting me with my work projects."
"Great read if you are PM looking to manage your projects better."
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Lean Six Sigma and Minitab (5th Edition): The Complete Toolbox Guide for Business Improvement
**Fifth Edition: Updated for Minitab 18, more tools, improved graphics** This Lean Six Sigma and Minitab guide explains Lean Six Sigma in a down-to-earth and practical format, and provides detailed Minitab instructions and screenshots throughout. Over 140 Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques. Six Sigma Today Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2004 Not only useful for Six Sigma practitioners but also for anyone involved in quality management, as well as for academic students. The entire Six Sigma and Lean process improvement strategy is laid out from start to finish through the DMAIC phases, showing the array of tools and techniques used along the way. This guide fills a unique need in demonstrating the integration of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies with the power of the Minitab statistical analysis software package. The format of the presentation of Six Sigma and Lean tools and Minitab analysis setup and output interpretation should fit well with team members who have some training (green belts). There are several outstanding free resources that come with the pocket guide: First, the author provides a customized menu that can be added to Minitab to ease the task of finding commonly used Six Sigma and Lean graphing and statistical analysis procedures. The guide s subtitle: The Complete Toolbox Guide for all Lean Six Sigma Practitioners accurately states the utility of this book to business process improvement leaders and the members of their Six Sigma and Lean teams. There are literally thousands of Lean Six Sigma books, guides and roadmaps available to the avid quality reader, with this 'Lean Six Sigma and Minitab' among the best selling. For those wanting to pursue the discipline of Lean Six Sigma, this 4th edition toolbox guide for business improvement is an invaluable set of tools and processes to help develop a deep understanding of the Lean Six Sigma methodologies. This toolbox guide is aimed at those wanting to learn Lean Six Sigma including trainees and senior managers, improvement practitioners and project sponsors to name a few. The guide also contains Minitab screenshots and instructions for each tool, data files and templates that are available online and process flows through each DMAIC phase.
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"The Minitab exercises are well explained, and when I ask students to rate the book at the end of the training they have all said I should continue to use it in future sessions."
"Lean Six Sigma and Minitab is now my primary reference to support our Lean and Six Sigma Initatives."
"This is an excellent resource."
"I bought this to help with my Master's Dissertation related research and it was a life saver."
"Easy to use and very helpful."
"Excellent book."
"This is a great book when taking a Six Sigma Green Belt Course even if you don't have Minitab available."
"I have a BS in Economics so this was quite a bore to read and failed to delve into advanced methodologies and theory. Six Sigma overall is just rehashed statistics from the 60s that businesses get excited about with jargon terms like "green belt" and "champion.""
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Best Engineering Management

Implementing Six Sigma, Second Edition: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods
Written to aid organizations in laying the foundation for Six Sigma, this comprehensive and engaging guide provides the tools, strategies, and motivation to get all relevant players involved with improvement from upper management on down. "...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." ( The TQM Magazine , Vol 15(6) 2003).
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"I suggest it be used as a reference guide in conjunction with a formal six sigma training program, (The author includes this book in his Six Sigma training seminars) as it is an excellent tools and reference book."
"It is best to read the book if you are in a related field, such as manufacturing, quality control, engineering etc."
"For an example, the reader should compare Breyfogel's section on 2**k factorial designs with that of Box, Hunter, and Hunter. However, the reader must be prepared to wade through the incomplete sentences, grammatical mistakes, and the occasional opaque explanation."
"This books is not only easy to read and understand but it will help you create training for others in your company by providing practical examples, and solid, logical information."
"Great so far... Looks intimidating at first, but give it a chance!"
"I am still going through the book."
"Good explenation with examples in short chapters."
"Arguably the best book in the industry."
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Best Total Quality Management

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price-cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide. Dr. Jeffrey Liker, a renowned authority on Toyota's Lean methods, explains how you can adopt these principles--known as the "Toyota Production System" or "Lean Production"--to improve the speed of your business processes, improve product and service quality, and cut costs, no matter what your industry. You'll learn how Toyota fosters employee involvement at all levels, discover the difference between traditional process improvement and Toyota's Lean improvement, and learn why companies often think they are Lean--but aren't. The Toyota Way, explain's Toyota's unique approach to Lean--the 14 management principles and philosophy that drive Toyota's quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. The book is full of examples of the 14 fundamental principles at work in the Toyota culture, and how these principles create a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
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"There is a good mix of examples of how the Toyota way is followed and how to implement."
"The original story by the original people - buy this for the "lean production" method."
"Being from a mechanical and industrial engineering, this book brought out many changes in my work life and personal life."
"Toyota not only lead the way for manufacturing but for building a company and culture of continuous self improvement for all aspects of the company."
"It's mostly a history book but it's a really neat one all the same."
"I listened to the audiobook while driving along with reading the book whenever I was stationary such as home and work."
"A treasure chest, chuck full of powerful concepts, explained simply, clearly, and concisely: sums it up for me!"
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Best Lean Management

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Define your minimum viable product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit. It also describes how to build your product using Agile development and how to use analytics to optimize your product and business.
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"Dan Olsen brings a great combination of theory and practical experience to the problem of product management. He's not trying to claim credit for making up a whole new theory; he supplies plenty of concepts of his own, but he's happy to include solid methodologies from other practitioners. The book would be a useful perspective for, say, CPG product managers, but its primary focus is certainly on software."
"Dan's approach utilizes a tactical / how to / real world focus that serves as a great "starter guide" to actually executing a product idea."
"READ this book if you want to learn or increase the required knowledge, skills, and experience of a great product manager."
"Dan's experience and his simple/clear outline have created a must read approach for any high-tech industry leader who wants to understand or lead Product Management practices in their organization."
"Being a Product Manager (non-technical) in a non tech domain (Insurance), I have found the book useful in relating my experiences to a more techie space."
"This is a well-organized and insightful read about the process behind creating lean products as well as how to apply the process."
"Great read for anybody working in Product Management."
"To book brings a lot of insights and real life examples which make it a real "playbook" that you can use with your own products or projects."
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Best Agile Project Management

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
Essential Scrum will provide every team member, manager, and executive with a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary they can use in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it. Kenny does an excellent job of distilling the key tenets of the Scrum framework into a simple format with compelling visuals. I’ve seen Scrum continually misinterpreted and poorly implemented by big companies and tool vendors for more than ten years. Reading this book will help you get back to the basics and focus on what’s important.”. –Joe Balistrieri, Process Development Manager, Rockwell Automation. “Corporate IT leadership, which has been slow to embrace agile methods, would benefit immensely from giving a copy of this book to all of their project and delivery managers. “Kenny’s extensive experience as a consultant, trainer, and past managing director of the Scrum Alliance is evident in this book. The examples and descriptions are clear and vivid, and you’ll often find yourself asking a question just before the book addresses that very topic.”. –Johannes Brodwall, Principal Solution Architect, Steria Norway. “Kenny’s well-structured explanations have a clarity to them that echoes the sensibilities of Smalltalk–the development environment with which he worked for years and from which both Scrum and Extreme Programming were born. In the case of Kenny’s book, I very much believe the answer is ‘yes.’ Getting the benefit of different, experienced perspectives on commonly encountered and needed material is valuable. It dives into the details of how to become more agile through implementing Scrum processes, and it explains exactly how to break down complex projects into manageable initiatives (or ‘sprints’). Any organization that is seeking to evolve from a traditional waterfall approach toward a more agile methodology will find Essential Scrum a definitive guidebook for the journey.”. –Julia Frazier, product manager. If that isn’t enough, Kenny shares a range of his valuable personal insights and experiences that we can all certainly learn from.”. –Ilan Goldstein, Agile Solutions Manager, Reed Elsevier. “Kenny unpacks a wealth of wisdom and knowledge in Essential Scrum, providing valuable and comprehensive insights to the practical application of agile/Scrum.
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"I studies the book for my CSM and it was very helpful."
"This book covers all of the main concepts of scrum."
"This book is very good for understanding the Agile process in depth."
"Very clearly written and not too preachy."
"not a beginner book."
"This is a must have book for any product manager, development team, or software enthusiast interested in learning more about Scrum."
"Anyway, it's given me a good framework for understanding the development teams and processes I've found myself within (or been asked to organise!!)."
"Very comprehensive and great as a learning tool and on-going reference."
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Best Quality Control

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price-cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide. Dr. Jeffrey Liker, a renowned authority on Toyota's Lean methods, explains how you can adopt these principles--known as the "Toyota Production System" or "Lean Production"--to improve the speed of your business processes, improve product and service quality, and cut costs, no matter what your industry. You'll learn how Toyota fosters employee involvement at all levels, discover the difference between traditional process improvement and Toyota's Lean improvement, and learn why companies often think they are Lean--but aren't. The Toyota Way, explain's Toyota's unique approach to Lean--the 14 management principles and philosophy that drive Toyota's quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. The book is full of examples of the 14 fundamental principles at work in the Toyota culture, and how these principles create a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Reviews
"There is a good mix of examples of how the Toyota way is followed and how to implement."
"The original story by the original people - buy this for the "lean production" method."
"Being from a mechanical and industrial engineering, this book brought out many changes in my work life and personal life."
"Toyota not only lead the way for manufacturing but for building a company and culture of continuous self improvement for all aspects of the company."
"It's mostly a history book but it's a really neat one all the same."
"I listened to the audiobook while driving along with reading the book whenever I was stationary such as home and work."
"A treasure chest, chuck full of powerful concepts, explained simply, clearly, and concisely: sums it up for me!"
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