{"id":1977,"date":"2018-02-01T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2018-02-02T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:55:04","slug":"bye-bye-black-belt-it-was-nice-knowin-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/posts\/2018\/02\/01\/bye-bye-black-belt-it-was-nice-knowin-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Black Belt, It Was Nice Knowin&#8217; Ya&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/certs\/support\/Lean_Six_Sigma_Black_Belt_certificate.pdf\">Lean Six Sigma Black Belt<\/a> certification from Villanova University rolled off yesterday, and I&#8217;ve been pondering whether or not to pursue a replacement.  If I do I&#8217;d get it through ASQ (<a href=\"https:\/\/asq.org\/\">American Society for Quality<\/a>) and it would only involve studying again and passing the exam.  When I was studying for the Villanova cert I did a practice exam for the ASQ one and passed it, but I&#8217;d want to read one of the ASQ&#8217;s big study guides to make sure I was comfortable with some of their question styles.<\/p>\n<p>I did the original study and certification with Villanova because of the project requirement for certification.  ASQ required documentation of two formal Six Sigma-type projects, which I didn&#8217;t think I could do.  Villanova&#8217;s process involved a mock project as part of completing the Black Belt training course (the Green Belt and Lean courses were also required).  Not knowing the subject matter clearly I went with what I knew I could get verified.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, I recognize that quite a lot of the work I&#8217;ve done over the years has Six Sigma components, and even involved Six Sigma Methodologies.  Even more of my work has involved Lean techniques, so I&#8217;m guessing I should have exactly zero problem getting some of that work described, attested to by project champions, and accepted by ASQ.  Passing the exam will be nothing but elbow grease.<\/p>\n<p>I also found that Villanova&#8217;s process for recertification involved continuing to take a bunch of expensive classes rather than a more rational process of continuing study and participation or reexamination like ASQ and, ohhhh&#8230; <em>everyone<\/em> else uses.<\/p>\n<p>When I read about the requirements I saw that I&#8217;m right near the end of an application window and there won&#8217;t be time to get everything done.  If I proceed I&#8217;ll do so in the next window, after I give the final IIBA presentation I have scheduled in Baltimore on February 13th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Villanova University rolled off yesterday, and I&#8217;ve been pondering whether or not to pursue a replacement. If I do I&#8217;d get it through ASQ (American Society for Quality) and it would only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/posts\/2018\/02\/01\/bye-bye-black-belt-it-was-nice-knowin-ya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[201,31,202,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}