[ci5er]

I went through a personal anti six-sigma period in the early 90s. And adopted a slimmed down version of this for myself. Rather: it had the same name and came from CMU, but I don't recall it being quite so cumbersome looking, and I adopted a slimmed down "personal-only" version of it for myself. I didn't work that hard at it, and I was able to bring alternative data to a larger meta-drama I was somehow participating in.

Later - I spun out of there and started a company and we did that slimmed down version, based on the this Y2K document's predecessor. It didn't seem to cumbersome because it was inline with a lot of things we were already doing. And we had were using this light-weight measurement practice embedded in a modified dev-team wide process based on the spiral (we were all from waterfall-world, and this fit us well).

I've gotta say: it worked very very well. Especially after a few iterations through a few spirals. Skeptics came around pretty quickly. (Well, except one guy - but he hated everything)

I can't imagine doing 100% of what's written in this document, as a dedicated, in parallel, side-car type activity - but it might still be well worth it.