I have no problem with Six Sigma in and of itself, my beef is that non-software people (manufacturing industry managers etc.) have come to me/us in the software or computer science world and are telling us how to develope software without acknowledging that the software industry has developed standards and methodologies of its own over may years. I trust my comp-sci professors from school much more than I trust a widget manufacturing manager or executive.

I am more interested in what the great names in the software/comp-sci world have to teach than what the american or japanese manufacturing gurus have developed.

I am not saying that I have nothing to learn from six sigma. I am saying that managers and executives should look within the verious disciplines that make up their company before blindly applying one "system" to the entire company.