Quality Management

 

Inputs

Function

Outputs

Determine Standards and How to Meet Them

Quality Planning

Quality Management Plan; Checklists

Definition and Management of Quality Processes

Quality Assurance

Measurement Based Quality Improvement

Monitor Specific Variables to Meet Standards

Quality Control

Continuously Improve; Minimize Rework; Adjust Process

Key Factors for Success:   Determine who owns quality issues; define what quality means to the project; identify specifically what it means to have quality output

Key Techniques and Tools:
  TQM (Total Quality Management); CIM (Continuous Improvement Methodology); Root Cause Analysis; Pareto Diagrams; surveys and interviews; control charts; cost benefit analysis; peer inspections; benchmarking

Key Concepts:
  quality is NOT perfection, it is the meeting of specifications in a repeatable manner; communicate and posture the Quality Mission to those responsible for making it happen

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