6 Quality Management

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Quality Assurance

Back 1

Monitors the process to ensure we are following the quality management plan. It includes quality audits and process analysis and is part of the executing process group.

Front 2

Quality Control

Back 2

Inspects the product of the project to ensure it conforms to standards and requirements. Quality control uses inspection, sampling, control charts, and trend analysis, to name a few, as its tools and techniques. It is part of the controlling and monitoring process group.

Front 3

Cost of Quality

Back 3

Occurs in Quality Planning and we need to minimize this.

Includes Cost of non-compliance (reworking things that are not functioning as they should, resolving customer complaints, etc.)

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Cost of compliance (training employees to do better work, improving operations to get better quality, etc.)

Front 4

Flowcharting

Back 4

Examine the interrelationship between steps in the process to identify potential problems.

Front 5

Fishbone diagram (Ishikawa diagrams)

Back 5

Relationship between effects and their causes.

Front 6

Design of Experiments

Back 6

Test the impact of altering variables when making changes to increasing quality can be extremely expensive.

Front 7

Control Charts

Back 7

Tool for Quality Control.

Analyzes a measure of dispersion in results of a quality process to show the mean and when that process falls outside the mean.

Front 8

Quality Audit

Back 8

Used in Quality Assurance

Tests the data provided by the Quality Control process.

Front 9

Benchmarking

Back 9

Compare your project to others to see how it measures up.

Front 10

Pareto chart

Back 10

80% of problems come from 20% of issues. These charts isolates this pattern and these issues.