Introducing SixGrid: Project Management Built for Lean Six Sigma
For nearly two decades, we've helped people learn and get certified in Lean Six Sigma through SixCamp. Today we're introducing something for the other side of the work. The part where you actually run the projects.
SixGrid is a project management application built specifically for Continuous Improvement. It's not a generic PM tool with a Six Sigma label slapped on top. It's not a spreadsheet template. It's a real application designed around how DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, PDCA, and A3 projects actually work in practice.
If you've ever tried to run a Belt project in Asana, Jira, or Monday, you already know the problem.
Generic tools weren't built for charters, tollgates, hard and soft savings, or Champion and Sponsor roles. So practitioners spend hours rebuilding the methodology inside whatever software they have. Every project. Every time.
SixGrid removes that work.
What's inside
- Method templates. Pick DMAIC, Lean, Kaizen, PDCA, or A3 and get a structured project with the right phases, milestones, and to-dos already in place.
- Project charters with structure. Problem statement, goal, scope, and metrics as first-class fields. Not a description box.
- Financial tracking. Hard savings, soft savings, and cost avoidance, tracked the way CI programs actually report them.
- CI-native team roles. Belt, Champion, Sponsor, and Team Member, instead of generic admin/member/viewer labels.
- Evidence in context. Attach files, charts, and data directly to charters, milestones, to-dos, and notes.
- One-click tollgate reports. Generate a clean, professional final report PDF with all project data, financials, and evidence pulled in for you.
- Live dashboards. Real-time visibility into project status, financial impact, and group performance across your portfolio.
- Group isolation. Run cohorts, client engagements, or business units in separated workspaces.
- A preloaded sample DMAIC project. So you can see exactly what a finished SixGrid project looks like before you build your own.
It's free during Beta
SixGrid is in Beta and it's completely free right now. No credit card. No trial timer. No locked features. You get full Teams plan access (a $349/month value once we're out of Beta) for the duration of the program.
We made it free for a reason. We want your feedback, and we want it from real practitioners running real projects. There's a feedback button built right into the app. Use it freely. Tell us what works, what's confusing, what's missing, and what you'd change.
Whether you're working through a certification project, running a CI program at work, or consulting across multiple clients, we'd love for you to put SixGrid through its paces.
This is early, and your input will directly shape what SixGrid becomes.
Scot Shank
Founder, Open Source Six Sigma