Tag Archives: Six Sigma
Facilities Task Force
John and I are members of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga, California. In addition to participating in several other ministries, I am in my second year on the Vestry (elected lay leadership group). Our Mission: As a community in … Continue reading
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Making it Right
One of my professional credentials is that I am a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. (This means I know about quality management, not that I am a martial artist.) One of the truisms of quality management is that if you … Continue reading
Filed under Hopper - Anita Borg Institute, News & Reviews
Process Success Measures
In 2002, I gave a lunchtime presentation on process design to Sun’s Six Sigma Black Belt community. In that talk I proposed two measures for process success. While any individual process will have its own particular success measures, two simple … Continue reading
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A Tribute to Sun Microsystems
On 11 June, Ingrid Van Den Hoogen, Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing, asked Sun’s staff to “commemorate and celebrate the rich history and contributions that Sun’s made over the past 27 years” on “a virtual site called thenetworkisthecomputer.com to … Continue reading
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Two Talks
I recently gave two talks here at Sun Menlo Park: To TechBridge, for “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” on 23 April To the annual Sun Design Summit (27-28 April), on “One time vs. Cyclic Survey” design … Continue reading
Sun Family Changes
My husband, John Plocher, was laid off yesterday from Sun. We will be packing up his office on the 3rd floor of Menlo Park 17 this morning if you want to come by and say goodbye to him. You can … Continue reading
Filed under Home & Family, News & Reviews
How to Survey, Part 2 (Best Practices)
In my 16 April blog entry How to Survey, I presented 3 sections: Key Questions, Tools and Services, and Reading. In this entry, I present some Best Practices based on my experience and the advice of two wise and capable … Continue reading
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