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CSSBB · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Organization-Wide Planning and Deployment & Organizational Process Management and Measures

  • Confirm that all eight domains carry equal 12.5% weight and re-sequence study order by content density rather than point value

  • Map each of the eight domains to the specific tools it owns, so no tool is filed under the wrong phase

  • Draft an enterprise deployment outline that names the strategic alignment, readiness assessment, infrastructure roles, and top three deployment barriers

  • Calculate and interpret rolling throughput yield, DPMO, and cost of poor quality from a provided process dataset

  • Build a personal glossary of 20 deployment and process-measurement terms written in your own words

Your checkpoint

A two-page deployment-and-metrics summary sheet containing five worked calculations and a self-scored confidence ranking of all eight domains

Week 2

Team Management & Define

  • Convert a vague customer complaint into a measurable problem statement with a baseline, a target, and a stated gap

  • Write a full project charter covering business case, problem statement, goal statement, scope boundaries, team roles, and milestone schedule

  • Translate three voice-of-customer inputs into CTQs with operational definitions and specification limits

  • Build a stakeholder analysis and RACI matrix for the charter project and flag the two highest-risk stakeholders

  • Diagnose three team dysfunctions using a named team-development model and write one countermeasure for each

Your checkpoint

A completed project charter plus stakeholder/RACI matrix, self-scored against a 12-point charter quality checklist

Week 3

Measure

  • Classify 15 given data points as continuous or discrete and assign the correct measurement scale and resolution to each

  • Write a data collection plan for the charter project specifying operational definitions, sampling method, sample size rationale, and stratification factors

  • Compute percent contribution and number of distinct categories from a Gage R&R variance table and state an accept/reject conclusion

  • Calculate Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk from summary statistics and justify which indices to report when the data fail a normality test

  • Select between variables and attributes sampling plans for three stated scenarios and defend each choice

Your checkpoint

A measurement-systems and capability worksheet with three fully worked MSA/capability problems and a finalized data collection plan

Week 4

Measure & Analyze

  • State the null and alternative hypothesis for six business questions and identify the correct test family for each

  • Calculate and interpret a one-sample and a two-sample test statistic by hand, including the p-value decision and the practical-significance caveat

  • Run a multi-vari study on a provided dataset to separate within-unit, between-unit, and temporal variation

  • Explain how sample size, effect size, and power trade off, and compute the required n for one stated effect size

  • Distinguish type I from type II error in two concrete project decisions and name the cost of each

Your checkpoint

A hypothesis-testing problem set of 30 items scored at 80% or better, with every miss re-worked in writing

Week 5

Analyze

  • Build and interpret a simple and a multiple regression model, reporting R-squared, adjusted R-squared, and residual diagnostics

  • Run a one-way ANOVA and a chi-square test on provided data and state the conclusion in plain business language

  • Select a nonparametric alternative for three datasets that violate normality or use ordinal scales

  • Construct a cause-and-effect diagram, a 5-why chain, and a Pareto chart for the charter defect, then verify the suspected root cause with data rather than opinion

  • Separate correlation from causation in two provided scenarios and name the confounder in each

Your checkpoint

A root-cause analysis package containing the verified root cause, its supporting statistical evidence, and a rejection note for at least one plausible-but-unproven cause

Week 6

Improve

  • Design a two-factor, two-level full factorial with a center point and state its resolution, aliasing, and the interaction you can estimate

  • Screen eight candidate process inputs down to three using an FMEA risk ranking plus a Pareto of pilot results

  • Write an improvement pilot plan with success criteria, sample size, duration, and an explicit rollback trigger

  • Select and justify one lean countermeasure (standard work, 5S, kanban, or poka-yoke) for the charter's critical defect

  • Validate that the chosen solution addresses the verified root cause rather than a symptom

Your checkpoint

An improvement package containing a DOE run sheet, an FMEA excerpt with RPN ranking, and a pilot plan with written go/no-go criteria

Week 7

Control

  • Build a control plan listing each critical X, its specification, monitoring method, frequency, owner, and reaction plan

  • Construct an Xbar-R chart and a p-chart from provided data and apply the standard run and trend rules to detect out-of-control signals

  • Compute process capability after improvement and compare it to the pre-improvement baseline

  • Write two standard operating procedures and a training-and-communication plan for handoff to the process owner

  • Close the project by verifying achieved versus target sigma level, documenting lessons learned, and stating the financial validation method

Your checkpoint

A complete control plan plus two annotated control charts and a one-page project closure report

Week 8

Organization-Wide Planning and Deployment & Organizational Process Management and Measures & Team Management & Define & Measure & Analyze & Improve & Control

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams and log every miss by domain and failure mode

  • Re-drill the two weakest domains to 80% or better on a targeted 40-question set

  • Recite the decision logic for choosing among hypothesis tests, control charts, and DOE designs from memory without notes

  • Rebuild a one-page formula sheet covering capability indices, control limits, sample size, and sigma-level conversion

  • Re-read every flagged glossary term and rewrite any definition you cannot restate cleanly

Your checkpoint

A categorized error log, a handwritten one-page formula sheet, and a practice-exam report showing at least 75% overall with no domain below 65%

Milestones

Week 2: Charter passes the 12-point checklist with no more than one gap, and the problem statement contains a number, a baseline, and a target

Week 4: Score 80% or better on the 30-item hypothesis-testing set and correctly complete all three MSA/capability problems without reference to the answer key

Week 6: Root cause is verified by data, and the improvement package names a specific DOE design and a rollback trigger

Week 8: Two timed practice exams completed; overall score at least 75% with no single domain below 65%, and every miss mapped to a named failure mode