PROJECT QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
PART 1
PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Project Quality Management includes the processes for incorporating
the organization’s quality policy regarding planning, managing, and
controlling project and product quality requirements in order to meet
stakeholders’ objectives.
Project Quality Management also supports continuous process
improvement activities as undertaken on behalf of the performing
organization.
PLAN QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• The process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for
the project and its deliverables, and documenting how the project will
demonstrate compliance with quality requirements and/ or standards.
MANAGE QUALITY
• The process of translating the quality management plan into
executable quality activities that incorporate the organization’s quality
policies into the project.
CONTROL QUALITY
• The process of monitoring and recording the results of executing the
quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the
project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer
expectations
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Qualit
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Quality is conformance to requirements or specifications (Crosby
1979)
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Quality ( free from defects)
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Quality is Customer satisfaction
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Do the thing right at the first time
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Quality should be aimed at the needs of the consumer, present
and future (Deming, 1986)
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
1. Customer Focus:
The primary focus of quality management is to meet customer requirements
and to strive to exceed customer expectations.
- Rationale:
Sustained success is achieved when an organization attracts and retains the
confidence of customers and other interested parties on whom it depends.
Every aspect of customer interaction provides an opportunity to create more
value for the customer. Understanding current and future needs of customers
and other interested parties contributes to sustained success of an
organization.
RANKING (POWER AND INTEREST)
high power/ high interest
Manage Closely
(Key Stakeholder)
high power/ low interest
Keep Satisfied
Interested
parties
low power/ low interest
Monitor (Other)
low power/ high interest
Keep Informed
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VOICE OF CUSTOMER (VOC)
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
2. Leadership
Leaders at all levels establish unity of purpose and direction and create conditions in
which people are engaged in achieving the quality objectives of the organization.
• Rationale
• Creation of
unity of purpose, direction and engagement enable an organization to
align its strategies, policies, processes and resources to achieve its objectives.
• Key Benefits (As per ISO 9000:2015)
• It increases the effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the organization’s quality
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3. Engagement of People
It is essential for the organization that all people are competent, empowered and
engaged in delivering value. Competent, empowered and engaged people
throughout the organization enhance its capability to create value.
Rationale
To manage an organization effectively and efficiently, it is important to involve all
people at all levels and to respect them as individuals. Recognition, empowerment
and enhancement of skills and knowledge facilitate the engagement of people in
achieving the objectives of the organization.
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3. Engagement of People
Possible actions (As per ISO 9000:2015)
Some of the possible actions that an organization can take includes:
• It can communicate with people to promote understanding of the importance of
their individual contribution;
• It can promote collaboration throughout the organization;
• It can facilitate open discussion and sharing of knowledge and experience;
• It can empower people to determine constraints to performance and to take
initiatives without fear;
• It can recognize and acknowledge people’s contribution, learning and
improvement;
• It can enable self-evaluation of performance against personal objectives;
• It can conduct surveys to assess people’s satisfaction, communicate the results
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4. Process Approach
Consistent and predictable results are achieved more effectively and efficiently when
activities are understood and managed as interrelated processes that function as a
coherent system.
Rationale
• The
quality management system is composed of interrelated processes.
Understanding how results are produced by this system, including all its processes,
resources, controls and interactions, allows the organization to optimize its
performance.
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5 . Improvement
Successful organizations have an ongoing focus on improvement.
Rationale
• Improvement is essential for an organization to maintain current levels of
performance, to react to changes in its internal and external conditions and to
create new opportunities.
Key Benefits (As per ISO 9000:2015)
• There is improved process performance, organizational capability and
customer satisfaction;
• There is enhanced focus on root cause investigation and determination,
followed by prevention and corrective actions;
• There is enhanced ability to anticipate and react to internal and external risks
and opportunities;
• There is enhanced consideration of both incremental and breakthrough
improvement;
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6 . Evidence-based Decision Making.
Decisions based on the analysis and evaluation of data
and information are more likely to produce desired
results.
Rationale
• Decision-making can be a complex process, and it
always involves some uncertainty. It often involves
multiple types and sources of inputs, as well as their
interpretation, which can be subjective. It is important
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7 . Relationship Management
For sustained success, organizations manage their relationships with interested
parties, such as suppliers.
Rationale
• Interested parties influence the performance of an organization.
Sustained success is more likely to be achieved when an organization
manages relationships with its interested parties to optimize their
impact on its performance. Relationship management with its supplier
and partner network is often of particular importance