In this journey of five phases and 15 steps, there are more than 50, Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques. You may not be required to implement every single tool in a project. Then why are you required to learn so many tools and techniques? Imagine that you're playing golf during the game, you are not going to use the same stick to play every shot right? Your golf bag has different types of stakes to play different types of shots. depending upon how far you want to hit the shot, and what type of shot you want to hit.

You decide which golf stick you would use. Similarly, imagine your mind as a big golf bag, and Six Sigma tools and techniques as your golf sticks depending upon the situation and requirements of your product project, you decide which tool to be used in which stage of the project