Six Sigma Versus Alcoholics Anonymous
My day job has been taking me through the joys of six sigma. As we went through the 12 steps of the training I couldn't help but the be reminded of the 12 steps that my mothers clients went through at AA meetings. So for fun I took the list of AA steps and put them next to the 12 steps of six sigma to see how they lined up. The results were amusing to say the least so I thought I would share :).
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Alcoholics Anonymous |
Six Sigma |
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1 |
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. |
Identify Project CTQ |
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2 |
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
Identify Team Charter |
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3 |
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. |
Define Process Map |
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4 |
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. |
Establish Process Capability |
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5 |
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
Define Performance Objective |
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6 |
We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. |
Define Variation Sources |
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7 |
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. |
Screen Potential Causes |
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8 |
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. |
Discover Variable Relationships & Propose Solution |
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9 |
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. |
People Establish Operating Tolerances & Pilot Solution |
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10 |
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. |
Validate Measurement System |
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11 |
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. |
Determine Process Capability |
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12 |
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. |
Implement Process Control System & Project Closure |
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:49 Posted in Java, Agile, Career, Ruby
Tags AA, Alcoholics, Anonymous, Sigma, Six
