Black Belt Tollgate Checklist Template

Black Belt Tollgate Checklist Interactive App

Black Belt Tollgate Checklist Best Practices

A Black Belt Tollgate Checklist is one of the tools of the trade of a Six Sigma project manager or practitioner. The Checklist outlines the deliverables for each phase of DMAIC and helps provide guidance on which deliverables and checks must be completed before moving on to the next phase.

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Description of the Black Belt Tollgate Checklist

The Black Belt Tollgate Checklist is used at the end of each part of a larger Six Sigma project. It gives project managers and senior leaders a chance to communicate progress on the overarching project to senior leaders as well as team members and show that the project is being carried out in a well planned way.

Updates associated with the Black Belt Tollgate Checklist occur at the end of each phase of a project. These updates allow project managers and Six Sigma practitioners to review findings and share appropriate data points relevant to the next phase of work. This also provides a good opportunity to get feedback from other stakeholders across the operation to help drive better solutions for the next steps in the project. By sharing information in this structured way, sponsors or external influencers can remove obstacles the team is coming up against.

Praxie's Online Black Belt Tollgate Checklist Tools & Templates

The tools managers can use to build out a Black Belt Tollgate Checklist are project plans, status reports, and spreadsheets. Tollgates are typically tied to the steps in the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control).​ Get started with our Black Belt Tollgate Checklist template. 

How to use it: 

  1. Use each step in the DMAIC process as a tollgate to move to the next phase.  
  2. Indicate if complete, along with start and complete dates, and any notes about the step.​ 
  3. Create an action plan to conduct and coordinate your tollgate checkpoint meeting with key stakeholders and project sponsors. 

Unlike most project checklists, Praxie’s online Black Belt Tollgate Checklist tool allows any team or organization to instantly begin working with our web templates and input forms. Our digital platform goes far beyond other software tools by including progress dashboards, data integration from existing documents or other SaaS software, elegant intuitive designs, and full access on any desktop or mobile device.