STAGE 1: ASSESS

The Assess Steps

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Identify
Talk with
Get Walk the Priority
Your
Organized Process Improvement
Customers
Areas
• Project • VOC • SIPOC • Data Collection
Background • Affinity Diagram • Process Mapping Plan
• Broad Project • Defining the Metric • Activity Chart • Histogram,
Statement • Deployment Chart Pareto, and Line
• CI Project Chart
Template
STAGE 2: ANALYZE
Analyze - Steps
Step 5 Step 6 Step 7
Finalize
Do Root Cause Develop
Improvement
Analysis Solutions
Plans
STAGE 3: ACT
 What is the Act Stage?
• The Act stage focuses on testing the agreed
ideas/solutions through a pilot.
• The results of the test are compared to the previous
results.
• Change management plans are created in preparation
for the deployment of the verified solution to the entire
division/school.
Act
Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Pilot your Roll out your Check your
solution solution progress
• Testing the developed • Change • Tracking,
solutions Management Monitoring,
• Communication Reviews, and
Plan Follow-ups
• Standardization • Project Closure
and Documentation
• Training
Test your solution and assess results

STEP 8: Pilot your solution

Why Test Solutions?
• Validate expected results
• Improve the solution
• Facilitate buy-in
• Understand potential problems (risks)
• Smoothen implementation
• Identify previously unknown performance
problems
 When to Test Solutions?
• You need to confirm the expected results and practicality
of the solution.
• You want to reduce the risk of failure.
• The scope of the change is large, and reversing the
change would be difficult.
• Implementing the change will be costly.
• Changes would have far-reaching, unforeseen
consequences.
Steps of a Test Program
1. Select steering 6. Conduct testing
committees
7. Evaluate results
2. Plan testing
8. Increase scope
3. Brief participants
4. Inform stakeholders
Some Critical Issues in
Planning a Test of Solution
• Where to test? What school area or grade
level?
• How do we ensure that the full range of
process conditions is tested?
• What needs to be measured? When?
Where?
Some Critical Issues in Planning a Test
of Solution
• How to minimize disruptive impacts on the
school schedule or student learnings while
ensuring the validity of the testing?
• How to evaluate the results of the test?
Evaluate the Test Results
• Compare results: Future and Current State.
• Recalculate histogram, line chart.
• Analyze causal relationships and process
conditions.
FUTURE PLANS
We will roll out this project to
our co-grade five teachers by
May 2021