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Quality Management
Quality Management
Management
Project Quality Management
• “Creating and following policies and
procedures to ensure that a project meets the
defined needs it was intended to meet from
the customer’s perspective.”
Why Quality Management?
• Quality means conformance to specifications and
fitness for use – i.e. just what you need and not more
• Projects or products with unnecessary features can be
too expensive to meet the business need
• Prevention is much cheaper than inspection, build
quality in early to minimize costs/maximize quality
How Do We Manage Quality?
• Three processes
– Plan Quality
• What is quality and how will we ensure it?
– Perform Quality Assurance
• Are we following the quality standards?
– Perform Quality Control
• Are we meeting the quality standards?
Warranty Costs
85% of the costs of quality are the direct responsibility of management - Deming
Quality Planning Terms
• Gold Plating – Giving the customer extras that do
not add value to the project
• Marginal Analysis – The point where the
incremental revenue from an improvement equals
the cost to implement it
• Kaizen – Continuous improvement process to reduce
costs and promote consistency
• ISO 9000 – International standard to ensure that
companies have quality procedures and that they
follow them
Perform Quality Assurance
Tools & Techniques
Outputs Organizational
Project Management Plan Plan quality and perform Process Assets
Inputs Updates
quality control tools and
Quality Metrics
techniques
Change Requests
Work Performance Quality audits
Information
Process analysis Project Management
Plan Updates
Quality Control
Measurements
Project Document
Updates
Cumulative Percentage
Frequency
Problem Type
Control Chart
• Upper & Lower Control Limits (UCL & LCL)
– Set by quality goal i.e. 3
– Includes the normal and expected variation in the process
• Specification Limits
– Contracted acceptable limit, usually outside UCL & LCL
• Out of Control
– Data point falls outside of UCL/LCL
– Non-random data points i.e. “Rule of Seven”
• Rule of Seven
– If you get seven points in a row on one side of the mean, seven points
ascending, or seven points descending, the process is no longer random and it
is out of control
– Originally adopted from a Ford quality manual
• Assignable Change
– When the controller adjusts the process to bring the process back within
process control limits
Control Charts
Specification Limit
(or Mean)
Specification Limit