Six Sigma Certification: (LSSYB) Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Is a Six Sigma Certification right for you? Here, we’ll dig into everything you need to know about becoming a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (LSSYB) and PM-ProLearn’s lean six sigma training course to get you there. At PM-ProLearn, we aim to help individuals like you grow into prosperous careers within the project management field. These career-enhancing certifications can be used globally across a variety of industries depending on where your passion lies. Here you’ll find:
What Is Agile
Project Management?
״Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change״
In today’s world where change is constant, Project Managers need to find a way to direct the action of their teams, while not restricting their actions. Essentially, they need a way to control the chaos while providing clarity, without micromanaging the work. Hence the birth of Agile or adaptive project management.
Unlike predictive or traditional project management, Agile focuses first and foremost on the team. It has been learned that people matter more than process when dealing with change. Building upon this foundation, Agile will break complex problems into iterative and incremental steps.
This allows for integrating new ideas in stride with the work being done. Lastly, Agile incorporates a variety of processes so that the team can determine their way of working to solve the unique problem in front of them.
What is a Six Sigma Certification?
A Six Sigma Certification is a professional credential that employers look for to verify that you have a certain level of expertise in the Six Sigma method which is a data-driven approach to quality assurance. It uses statistical tools and methodologies to identify risks, defects, and inefficiencies in processes so that you can reduce them and improve the quality and efficiency of your work.
Lean Six Sigma is a merging of complimentary best practices from Lean (Waste or Muda reduction/removal) and Six Sigma (variation reduction/Quality improvement). At its core, it is a business methodology that can lead to increased profits, increased customer satisfaction, improved employee morale, and reduction in costs.
Lean Six Sigma has been broken into various levels referred to as belts. Each belt level indicates greater understanding and proficiency in the discipline and analytical capabilities of Lean and Six Sigma.
Depending on your individual or organizational goals, one or multiple belts might be the right choice for you.
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White belt: Basic understanding of lean and Six Sigma principles
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Yellow belt: Basic understanding of DMAIC and the systematic process of evaluation. Additional understanding of topics like value stream mapping, measurement, and how to participate in a kaizen event or Lean Six Sigma project team.
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Green belt: First belt level where you are expected to be a team lead managing your project. A Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, or Six Sigma Green Belt is expected to be able to run a project from charter development, through the entire Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control processes. A Lean Six Sigma green belt should also be familiar with statistical analysis, data visualization, and decision-making.
Why Should I Get a Six Sigma Certification?
Earning your Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification demonstrates to yourself and your organization that you can be an independent leader of continuous process improvement (CPI). You have an understanding of lean and participate on a CPI team to fix real-world problems. It also demonstrates to an organization that you have a greater understanding of systems and customer requirements.
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Higher Salary
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt holders can expect an average salary increase of about 10-15% compared to those who are not certified. According to Payscale.com, the average salary for a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt professional in the U.S. can range from $70k-$101k depending on their role, which is significantly higher than the national average salary.
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Be In Demand
According to a report by Burning Glass Technologies, there have been 33% more job postings requiring candidates have Lean Six Sigma skills over the past five years. Many Fortune 500 companies require Lean Six Sigma certification for roles in quality management, operations, and continuous improvement, especially in leadership and managerial positions.
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Increased Career Opportunities
A study by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) found that certified professionals have a 35% higher chance of being promoted compared to non-certified individuals. Not only do many organizations require Lean Six Sigma certifications for leadership and managerial positions, but the methodologies taught in Lean Six Sigma, such as DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), are widely applicable across various industries, enhancing your overall versatility and employability making it that much easier for you to climb the corporate ladder.
Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Requirements
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt has a small barrier to entry and is a great starting point. There are no pre-requisites required to earn the certification. All that is required is that you complete our 21-hour training course and pass the 90 minute exam.
Our training and exam is accredited by the CSSC (Council for Six Sigma Certification), and our training prepares students to pass the exam from the IASSC (International Association for Six Sigma Certification) and ASQ (American Society for Quality) as well.
What Differentiates Our LSSYB from IASSC And ASQ?
As a training provider to the DoD, our training must align with the IASSC Body of Knowledge. But we felt that there was more to be taught. American Society of Quality (ASQ) Body of Knowledge provided additional skills and viewpoints, but these combined still did not cover all the aspects we thought necessary. By integrating quality management and quality control concepts from the Project Management Institute, we feel that our Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification best combines all necessary topics including Theory of Constraints, Total Quality Management, and others.
Maintaining Your LSSYB Certification Requirements
Some certifying bodies, like the CSSC and ASQ, do not require formal recertification. Instead, they consider it a lifetime certification with no expiration date. However, because of this, they are not compliant with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). To be compliant with ANSI, certifying bodies must have a currency program in place.
PM-ProLearn and IASSC do require recertification every 3 years.
Our exam here at PM-ProLearn is a non-proctored and open-book exam. LSSPM-YB re-certification consists of 40 multiple choice questions with a 90-minute time limit testing knowledge in Define, Measure, Improve and Control Phases of Lean Six Sigma. You must get a 70% of above to pass recertification.
The IASSC yellow belt recertification exam is a 30-question, closed-book, proctored exam with a 1-hour time limit. It contains approximately 10 multiple choice and true/false questions from each major section of the IASSC Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Body of Knowledge. In order to re-certify, professionals must earn a 70% or better on the exam.
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LSSYB Course
Our LSSYB course will prepare you to pass the the exam for all three governing bodies, CSSC, IASSC, and ASQ. The course is taken fully online in a self-paced format and covers approximately 21 hours of training finishing with a 90 minute 50 question exam for certification.
Next, we’ll take a deep dive into what the lean six sigma certification course looks like.
Agile Training Overview and Objectives
PM-ProLearn’s agile training is designed to prepare you for the Agile Certified Practitioner or PMI-ACP certification exam. The course focuses on concepts for agile principles and mindset, team performance, adaptive processes, agile methodologies, problem detection and resolution, and continuous improvement. After completing the Agile certification course, you should be able to do each of the objectives outlined in this section.
Several course features will help you achieve these objectives; however, some objectives still require self-study after the course to fully prepare for the PMI-ACP certification exam. The PM-ProLearn learning system provides a study guide and foundation for the course materials, including all post-course study and exam preparation. In addition, as a student, you will have access to additional material from PMI to use for post-course studying in preparation for the PMI-ACP exam.
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Explore, embrace and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization.
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Create an environment of trust, learning, collaboration, and conflict resolution that promotes team self-organization, enhances relationships among team members, and cultivates a culture of high performance.
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Produce and maintain an evolving plan, from initiation to closure, based on goals, values, risks, constraints, stakeholder feedback, and review findings.
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Provide an overview of the primary methodologies used in agile including SCRUM, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Lean Concepts, Feature Driven Development, Dynamic System Development Method, and Crystal.
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Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve it promptly; monitor and communicate the problem resolution status; and implement process improvements to prevent them from occurring again.
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Continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and value of the product, the process, and the people (team), including process analysis and tailoring, product feedback methods, reviews, and retrospectives.
Lean Six SigmaTraining: The Lesson Plan
Lesson 1: Define Phase
The Basics of Six Sigma Learning Objective:
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Understand the meanings of Six Sigma and the phased methodology used with Six Sigma Projects.
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Describe the general history of Six Sigma and continuous improvement.
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Discuss the deliverables of Six Sigma and its value to an organization.
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Discuss the problem-solving strategy Y = f(X) and understand how it is used to study the relationship between independent and dependent variables.
Fundamentals of Six Sigma Learning Objective:
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Define a process and the various elements, inputs and outputs.
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Understand process performance and the basic six sigma metrics for measuring project success.
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Discuss methodologies for monitoring success of a project and tools that can be used with process improvement.
Six Sigma Methodology and Project Charter Learning Objective:
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Define and understand the various methodologies (DMAIC, DFSS, PDCA, etc.)
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Define and describe elements of a project charter based on the organizational need for improvement and project objectives.
Project Management Basics Learning Objective:
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Explain how predictive and adaptive project life cycles work; explain what a hybrid development approach is.
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Discuss the basic principles of project management from project initiation to planning and execution.
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Describe change management theory and its relation to organizational change.
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Understand project risk and how to manage risk within a project to ensure success.
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Understand the roles of project team members.
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Discuss scheduling and decision tools used during project management.
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Discuss team decision making and conflict management.
Lean Principles in the Organization Learning Objective:
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Understand the basic lean concepts that can be used within an organization.
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Discuss the general history of lean.
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Understand the relationship between lean and six sigma.
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Understand value stream mapping and its importance in fully understanding a process.
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Discuss the eight elements of muda or waste within a process.
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Discuss the 5S methodology and its importance in both manufacturing and administrative aspects of organizations.
LSSGB Training Schedule: What to Expect
Our 5-day lean six sigma certification course runs from 8:00 am until about 4:00 pm with an hour lunch break in between and is scheduled Monday - Friday. The day-to-day timing may vary slightly depending on group discussions and things of that nature but will follow the outline of the following schedule. The lean six sigma certification course outline and schedule are the same whether you do an instructor-led virtual or in-person course. No matter your preferred learning style, know you’ll get the same quality content and instruction in both atmospheres. Your exam will be given to you on the last day of the training course.
PM-ProLearn also offers an online only self-paced training program for those that aren't able to attend live classes.
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Our 6-evening course runs from 6 pm to 10 pm for two weeks Tuesday through Thursday each week. The day-to-day timing may vary slightly depending on group discussions and things of that nature but will follow the outline of the following schedule. The 6-evening course is only available as an instructor-led virtual course.
If you prefer to learn on your own time, completely self-paced without an instructor, that option is available to you as well. Our self-paced students still get access to our entire learning system including the live instructor help desk where they can ask instructors questions on areas where they may need a little extra help.
The lean six sigma certification exam can vary depending on the governing body and method of testing.
For PM-ProLearn Yellow Belt students, the LSSPM Yellow Belt Certification Exam is 50 multiple choice questions, open-book, non-proctored with a 90-minute time limit testing knowledge in Define, Measure, Improve and Control Phases of Lean Six Sigma. You must get a 70% or above to pass.
The LSSYB exam through PM-ProLearn is approved by the CSSC.
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Exam
Free Practice PMI-ACP Exam
While we offer plenty of study materials and practice exams to those paying for our pmp training, we also offer this free practice exam to anyone who would like to get familiar with the PMI-ACP exam layout.
This timed and full-length practice PMI-ACP exam is 120 questions designed by a team of experts so that you may evaluate your readiness to take the official PMI-ACP exam with PMI.
Agile Principles and Mindset - 16%
Value-Driven
Delivery- 20%
Stakeholder Engagement - 17%
Team Performance -
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Adaptive Planning -
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Problem Detection and Resolution - 10%
Continuous Improvement - 9%
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PMI-ACP Exam Domains
About This Practice PMI-ACP Exam
All questions were created by a team of PMP expert instructors referencing a set of cloned PMP questions provided to us by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Every instructor who worked on this project is certified by PMI as an Authorized Training Partner (ATP) instructor. They worked hard to meticulously align each question to a specific domain and task from the PMP exam content outline published by PMI according to the same percentage of the actual PMP exam.
The time limit for this practice PMP exam is set for 250 minutes. When you take the actual PMP exam, you can take two 10-minute breaks, so we highly recommend that you schedule and take those breaks during this practice test giving you an actual 230 minutes of testing time. We recommend taking your first break after question 60 and your second break after question 120.
You may take this practice PMP exam as often as you’d like. The same 180 questions will always appear however they are presented randomly. Don't be discouraged by a low score the first time you take this test. Our expert-instructors will be able to get you where you need to be to pass the PMP Exam.
Lean Six Sigma Certification Cost
Our lean six sigma yellow belt certification cost is $495. The lean six sigma training portion is taken self-paced online.
The Full Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Cost Includes:
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Lean Six Sigma training course covering 21-hours
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1 year access to our online video study system
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1 year access to our live instructor help desk
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Practice Questions/Exams
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Mastery Analytics
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Study Guide
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Memory Aids
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PM-ProLearn's Certification Exam accredited by CSSC
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Ability to test 3 times in one year if needed
Many employers offer benefits like tuition reimbursement programs that will pay for your certifications. Check with your HR executive to see if you qualify. Some employers we've worked with include:
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Booz Allen
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Northrup Grumman
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KPMG
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General Dynamics
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The military funding options you can use for the PMP are:
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Army CA
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Coast Guard COOL
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AF COOL
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Unit Funding
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LSSYB Certification Funding Options
You may be eligible to get your certification at absolutley no cost to you. There are a number of funding options for both civilian and military personnel.
Talk to an advisor about our funding options and discounts for military and first responders.
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Can't use any of the above funding options? Military members and their spouses may receive a 25% discount. Contact us to see if you qualify.