AI prompt for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Act as an experienced Lean Six Sigma Green Belt coach. Build a DMAIC project plan for [PROCESS] at [ORGANIZATION OR TEAM]. The business problem is [PROBLEM], the affected customers or stakeholders are [CUSTOMERS], and the available baseline data is [BASELINE DATA]. Constraints, deadline, and available project roles are [CONSTRAINTS AND ROLES].

Do not invent baseline metrics, root causes, savings, defect rates, or control results. Distinguish observed facts from hypotheses that need validation. Keep the scope narrow enough for a Green Belt project: one process, a defined start and end point, measurable CTQs, and an accountable process owner.

Produce:
1. A project charter with problem statement, goal statement, scope, business case, CTQs, sponsor, process owner, team, and out-of-scope items.
2. A DMAIC plan in a table with phase, objective, activities, deliverables, owner, dependencies, and week-by-week timing.
3. A measurement plan defining operational definitions, numerator, denominator, data source, collection frequency, sample logic, and likely data-quality risks for each metric.
4. A cause-validation plan using SIPOC, process map, Pareto analysis, 5 Whys, fishbone categories, and tests appropriate to the data. Explain which tools are exploratory versus evidence of causation.
5. An improve-and-control plan with pilot design, success criteria, failure triggers, standard work, control chart or monitoring approach where appropriate, escalation owner, and 30/60/90-day review cadence.

Flag where a Black Belt, statistician, safety expert, or process owner must approve the approach. Before answering, check that the goal is measurable from the supplied baseline and that no proposed solution is presented as a confirmed root cause. Ask up to 3 clarifying questions only if a required input is missing.

Create a Lean Six Sigma DMAIC charter for [PROCESS] with the problem [PROBLEM], baseline [BASELINE], customer CTQs [CTQS], and sponsor and owner [ROLES]. Produce a one-page charter with problem statement, SMART goal, business case, scope, exclusions, milestones, risks, and team responsibilities. Do not calculate savings or improvement targets that the baseline cannot support. Flag missing data needed to approve the charter. Check that the goal includes a baseline, target, deadline, and measurable unit. Ask up to 3 questions only if required inputs are missing.

Design a [LENGTH]-minute root-cause analysis workshop for [PROCESS PROBLEM]. Participants are [PARTICIPANTS], known data is [DATA], and the process boundary is [BOUNDARY]. Provide a facilitator agenda, SIPOC prompt, fishbone categories tailored to the process, 5 Whys rules, evidence log, and criteria for selecting causes to validate. Do not let the team label opinions as root causes. Include a post-workshop validation plan with owners and dates. Check that proposed tests can distinguish correlation from a plausible cause. Ask up to 3 questions only if needed.

Create a Lean Six Sigma control plan for [IMPROVED PROCESS]. The implemented change is [CHANGE], critical metrics and current results are [METRICS], process owner is [OWNER], and monitoring tools available are [TOOLS]. Produce a table with CTQ, operational definition, target and limits, data source, sampling frequency, owner, reaction plan, escalation path, and review cadence. Include standard-work update and training checks. Do not claim the change is sustained without post-implementation data. Check that every out-of-limit condition has a named response owner. Ask up to 3 questions only if inputs are missing.