Current patterns include:

• Project Types Pattern - Six Sigma projects fall into three general types depending upon whether they are attenpting to automate a process, enable such automation, or augment the process with the resulting automation. While most projects are best thought of as all three types simultaneously; generally choosing one of these three types as the dominant thought process will enhance project productivity and effectiveness.

• SIPOC Compliance Pattern - A business processes need to align with business objectives and comply with extyernal regulations and customer preferences (collectively known as contraint requirements); and such alignemnt or compliance needs to be deomstrated early in the SIPOC if it is to ultimately premeate the entire process.