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Additional Resources on Six Sigma Project Management

Books
Duncan, William R. (1996). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.

Goldratt, Eliyahu M. (1990). The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data
Ocean. Great Barrington, MA: North River Press.

Hillier, Frederick S., and Gerald J. Lieberman. (1980). Introduction to Operations Research,
3rd Ed. San Francisco, CA: Holden-Day, Inc.

Pyzdek, Thomas. (2000). The Six Sigma Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Project Management Software
Microsoft Project™ is a general purpose project management software package. Project
implements the traditional project management model. There is a learning curve
required to master the software and its use is generally limited to Black Belts and
Master Black Belts. Newer versions of the software allow teams to collaborate over the
Internet or corporate intranets. Enterprise project management capabilities, such as
sharing of resources across multiple projects, are also available.

ProChain® Project Scheduling is a scheduling and decision support tool that aids the
understanding, implementation, and institutionalizing of the Critical Chain
improvement concepts presented in Eliyahu Goldratt’s book about project management
and scheduling, Critical Chain (Great Barrington, MA: North River Press, 1997).
ProChain provides capabilities to analyze projects, create critical chain schedules, and
track those schedules to ensure on-time or early completion. www.prochain.com.

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