Program Description

Master Black Belts (MBB) are individuals who possess the highest level of expertise and knowledge of current industry practice. A MBB has technical and leadership skills with a strong commitment to the practice and advancement of quality and improvement. The University of San Diego (USD) has developed a dynamic program to meet these needs and provides participants with the necessary skills for leading a company in a Quality Improvement initiative. In addition, the USD MBB Certificate Program is modeled after the ASQ MBB Certificate and prepares each participant for their application process and exam.

Becoming a Master Black Belt involves a great deal more than just learning advanced statistical techniques. This ten day training session provides you with the comprehensive Lean Six Sigma leadership tools, methodologies and roadmaps to drive successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma and other process improvement methodologies within your organization. The curriculum takes you beyond the tools and techniques that you practiced and mastered during your Black Belt project and provides you with the techniques to manage and lead an overall Lean Six Sigma program.

The hands-on training is focused on providing a high level of understanding of the critical success factors and the hazards to avoid ensuring a successful deployment of Lean Six Sigma.

Program Objectives

To train participants to understand and apply Master Black Belt roles which include the following:

• Become future leaders within their organization
• Develop and train their company employees to become Lean Six Sigma Green and Black Belts
• Coach and mentor Lean Six Sigma Green and Black Belts on their process/product improvement projects
• Assist management in setting future direction for six sigma deployment
• Guide Change Management & Leading the Six Sigma Culture

Certification Requirements

For Master Black Belt certification, participants must complete all training sessions and then:

• Project Mentoring – 1 to 3 Black Belts
• Project Completion – 2 Black Belt Level Projects and 1 Corporate Level Master Black Belt
• Co-Teaching – 2 to 4 hours of Classroom Teaching
• Topic Review – Participants must attend 3 Black Belt topics for review
• Pass a Master Black Belt final examination
• Complete Project Summary and Corporate level Program Storyboard

Prerequisites

• Possess a recognized and approved Six Sigma Black Belt certification  

Tentative Schedule

Focus Area	Day	Topics
Enterprise-wide Planning and Deployment	Day 1	Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints
		Success Factors for Deployment
	Day 2	Strategic Plan Alignment and Deployment
		Identifying Improvement Opportunities
	Day 3	Risk Analysis
		Addressing Organizational Issues
	Day 4	Organizational Commitment
		Finance and Business Performance Metrics
Project Management	Day 5	Project Management
		Project Selection
	Day 6	Managing Multiple Project and Project Reviews
		Using Financial Measures to Analyze Performance
Mentoring Responsibilities / Training Design and Delivery	Day 7	Mentoring Champions, Change Agents, and Executives
		Mentoring Black Belts and Green Belts
	Day 8	Training Preparation
		Training Facilitation
	Day 9	Curriculum Development
		Development of Training Materials
	Day 10	Presentation Delivery (Present and Review)
		Training Effectiveness Evaluation
Cross-functional Competencies	Day 11	Data Collection
		Determining the Voice of the Customer
	Day 12	Organizing Challenges
		Executive and Team Leadership Roles
Advanced Measurement Methods and Tools	Day 13	Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
		Understand and Interpret Output Statistics
	Day 14	Regression
		Understand and Interpret Output Statistics
	Day 15	Advanced Statistical Techniques
		Measuring and Modeling Relationships Between Variables
	Day 16	Advanced Design of Experiments (DOE)
		Response Surface Designs
Lean Methods	Day 17	Understanding Lean and Wastes
		Value Stream Mapping
	Day 18	Kaizen Events - Planning
		Kaizen Events - Execution