I'm not a hard-___ Six Sigma Black Belt. I just want to bring the practice to common use.

Was trying to explain how I was 'bringing Six Sigma for IT down to the trenches' to a bunch of IT folk and got an interesting reaction on that short phrase. I was contending that the main fault of most Six Sigma practitioners is the elitism they feel they have to demonstrate, that need to alienate everyone else to make being a Black Belt special.

I was explaining that simplifying it into a philosophy for executing work is probably the best way to allude to Six Sigma and have it be accepted into mainstream process.

Remember, Statistics-focused Black Belts, the less we get accepted mainstream, the more we get relegated to a fad, a passing fancy....