In our organization we utilize the six sigma process to establish project teams. The organizational policy is to obtain full senior management support through the development of a project charter that establishes an agreement between upper management that formally recognizes the project. Within the project charter is the expectations and operational rules, the development of the team, how the team will be lead and activities are managed. The project lead or as we call it in our organization the green belt will then begin to define the project objectives to gain an understanding of the skill matrix that is required to support the end result. Functional mangers will then be tasked to allocate appropriate resources to support the project. Once the team members have been assigned the project the green belt well hold a meeting to establish ground rule and the expected outcome from each specialist. This action will complete the define phase and the project will proceed to the analyze phase (which the book calls the storming phase). In this stage the team will essential conduct a meeting of the minds basically brainstorming session to include any and all ideas. These brainstorming sessions result in negotiating goals, strategies and approaches to meet the required expectations. As a result the team has a clear path along with the activities that need to be accomplished by each team member some of the actions may be collectively some maybe individually. The leader is only to act as a facilitator for these meetings to gather the required information and keep the thoughts flowing. Now the team is ready to move into the norming phase which is the actual execution of the teams plan established in the storming phase.

The strengths comprise of collectively defining together to gain buy in through sense of ownership. This also helps to set a positive tone for the