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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO MEET
CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS?
• Needs of customers have to be met
• Understanding of one’s customers leads to
customer satisfaction
• Japanese relate quality to customer satisfaction
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Quality Assurance
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QUALITY ASSURANCE
THERE ARE NO FACTS ONLY INTERPRETATIONS
-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Quality Control
• Quality Control is the process of monitoring
specific project results to determine if they comply
with relevant quality standards
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Quality Assurance vs Quality Control
Reference: Dr. Harold Kerzner’s PROJECT MANAGEMENT A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROLLING
Page 988 and 989: QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL
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Quality Assurance
• The organizational unit –”Quality Assurance” team that is
assigned the responsibility for assuring quality.
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Quality Assurance
• Quality assurance is the planned and systematic
activities implemented within the quality system to
provide confidence that the project will satisfy
relevant quality standards
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Quality Assurance - Inputs
• Some mandatory inputs to quality assurance
should be;
– Quality management plan
• Quality management plan should be used as a road
map to guide the QA team with enforcing processes
and procedures.
– Results of quality control measurements
• records of quality control testing and measurement in
a format for comparison and analysis.
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Quality Audit
• The method most commonly employed for enforcing the
Quality Assurance process is;
– Quality audits
• A structured review of all quality management
activities.
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Quality Audit
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Quality Assurance - Output
• Quality Assurance Audits results in;
– Quality improvement
• Includes taking action to increase the effectiveness
and efficiency of the project to provide added benefits
to the project stakeholders.
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Quality Control
• Quality Control is the process of monitoring
specific project results to determine if they comply
with relevant quality standards
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Quality Control
• Quality control involves monitoring specific project
results to determine if they comply with relevant
standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of
unsatisfactory results
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Quality Control
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Quality Control
• Some Tools & Techniques used are;
– Inspection
– Control charts
– Pareto diagram
– Statistical sampling
– Flowcharting
– Trend analysis
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Quality Control
• Inspection:
– Includes activities such as measuring, examining,
and testing undertaken to determine whether
results conform to requirements.
– May be conducted at any level (e.g., the results
of a single activity may be inspected or the final
project product).
– May be called reviews, product reviews,
audits, and walkthroughs.
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Quality Control - Outputs
• Results in;
– Quality improvement
– Acceptance decisions
• Decisions to either accept or reject the inspected
items.
• Rejected items may require rework.
– Rework
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Quality Control - Outputs
• What is Rework?
– Rework
• Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming
item into
• compliance with requirements or specifications.
Rework, especially
• unanticipated, is a frequent cause of project overruns
in most application areas.
• The project team should make every reasonable effort
to minimize rework.
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Quality Control – Outputs
–Process adjustments
• Immediate corrective or preventive action
as a result of
• quality control measurements. In some
cases, the process adjustment may
• need to be handled according to
procedures for integrated change control.
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Scope Verification vs Quality
Control
– Scope Verification
• Scope verification is primarily concerned with the
acceptance of work results
– Quality control
• Quality Control is primarily concerned with the
correctness of work results.
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