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Every project that delivers something before project closure gets evaluated for project success parameters. The typical ways to look at project success is before time and within budget. It is equally important to evaluate project success in terms of the quality of deliverable. And if the project requirements keep changing during the course of project execution and multiple project deliveries are made during the course, it may happen that project quality gets compromised.
So how would you ensure that project deliveries adheres to the desired quality standard? The answer is PROJECT QUALITY PLANNING. You plan for quality of the project, right from the beginning and have flexibility to update the project quality plan such that each project requirement, project delivery gets validated and verified by quality assurance group.
Once you have a right process for project quality assurance, the project quality planning and project quality verification/validation can perform in predictable manner.
There are various known approaches to ensure project quality some of these are
All of these approaches essentially align with principles of project management such as careful planning in advance save a lot later, hence this section becomes necessary.
What does project quality planning involves?
To create project quality plan, project planner need to identify what are the quality requirements of the project, which all standards are we supposed to comply with and in what manner. Surely project quality plans undergoes changes just as the master project plan.
What can we expect project quality plan to highlight?
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Description |
| 1 | Quality Process & Policies The policies about quality assurance process to be followed, quality controls to be in place, process improvement being adopted are detailed | |
| 2 | Project planner need to build the business cases to present cost-benefit analysis of quality assurance & control process to demonstrate benefits of ::
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| 3 |
Cost of Quality |
This section gives stakeholders details of estimated cost to be incurred during the project lifecycle by virtue of quality control & quality process: bifurcating/highlighting the cost projection in terms of
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Quality Metrics |
This section will establish the metrics based on which quality controls can be applied. Establishing quality metrics is very important to ensure stability and performance of the project. The parameters & permissible values such as availability (acceptable: 98.95%), failure rate (0.02%) & frequency, budget control (cost overrun <4%), etc all these essentially governs & indicate health of the project to the stakeholders. |
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Quality Checklist |
Based on the best practices, the project quality planner may provide quality checklist to ensure specific set of project activities are performed in standardized manner. Such checklists are quite useful in quality controls. |
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Control Charts |
This is chart representation to visualize process stability & performance. The project planner needs to specify the boundary & threshold limits to indicate when project stability or performance is getting compromised. At what levels who’s intervention is expected etc is being charted out. |
Table : Project Quality Plan
We can't miss quality audit in this whole process. Hence a project quality planning should also take into account project quality audit.
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