Quality Management Plan
Main tool for preventing
defects on your project
Quality checklists
Mistakes that might cause defects
Defect prevention technique
Avoid common errors
Inspecting products to be sure that
they display specific characteristics
The Process Improvement plan
Improving the process you
are using to do the work
Strategies for finding inefficiencies
Goals for how you can monitor the process
and make recommendations to make it better
Quality metrics
Kinds of measurements you'll take throughout
your Project to figure out its quality
Document how you'll be figure
out the product's quality
Write the formulas you'll use, when you will
do the measurements, why you are taking
them, and how you will interpret them
Project document updates
Found new information in the course of
planning your quality activities that affects
one of the other plans you've already made
Quality Concepts
Gold Planting
Giving the customer extras,
advanced quality thinking
does not recommend this
practice and neither does PMI
Prevention over Inspection
Quality must be planned in,
not inspected in
Marginal Analysis
Looking for the point where the benefits or
revenue to be received from improving quality
equals the incremental cost to achieve that quality
Continuos
improvement
(or kaizen)
Continuously looking for small
improvements in quality
Just in Time
Many companies find that holding raw materials in inventory is too
expensive and is unnecesary Must achieve a high level quality in their
practices; otherwise, there will not be enough raw materials to meet
production requirements because of waste and rework
Total Quality
Management
(TQM)
This philosophy encourages companies and their employees to focus on
finding ways to continuously improve the quality of their products and
their business practices at every level of the organization
Responsibility for Quality
The entire organization has responsibilities relating to quality. The PM has
the ultimate responsibility for the quality of the product of the project