Category: Managing Project Quality

To both relate some additional experiences that you have endured or observed and reemphasize some of the key points covered so far, let’s take a quick look at some common project quality-related challenges: In summary, most aspects of managing project quality are interwoven into the fabric of solid project management practices. If you manage with…

We emphasized the value and importance of planning your quality management system. In this section, we highlight ten of the most powerful quality-focused tools and techniques that you want to consider during your planning efforts, document in your Quality Management Plan, and then implement during the execution of your project. Powerful Quality Strategies In addition…

The seven key principles of project quality management originate from a proactive, customer-focused management philosophy and are consistent with other project management practices we have reviewed. By utilizing these principles, a project manager keeps the quality requirements aligned with both the project and the key stakeholders and gives the project the best opportunity to deliver…

Although project quality management is tightly integrated with all aspects of managing a project, there are a few aspects that are unique to this endeavor (after all, there must be some reason we have a separate). The unique elements of managing project quality include the following:

What do you think of when you hear the word “quality”? Testing? Zero defects? Audits? Overhead? If you answered yes to any of these, you might be surprised to know how PMI defines quality. To PMI, quality equals “conformance to requirements and fitness of use.” Well, of course it does. Simply translated, this means that the project…

Quality is one of the critical success factors for any project and one of the key tenets of modern project management. Yet, project quality is often misunderstood and poorly managed. Why is this? Suppose a project delivers a technically sound, zero-defect product, but the project is over budget and the customer is not satisfied. Do…