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The Cost of Quality Building quality steps in the schedule adds a certain amount of effort and cost to the project. However, these incremental costs will be rewarded with shorter timelines and reduced costs throughout the life cycle of the solution. Examples of the cost of quality include: Deliverable reviews. There is a cost associated with the time of the people attending the reviews. This includes any preparation, the actual review time for all participants, and the resulting follow-up work from the review. Creation of the Quality Management Plan. The time required to plan quality into the project and the solution, including identifying completeness and correctness criteria. Client approval. The time and effort required for the client to review interim and final deliverables and formally approve them as being correct and complete. Testing. Testing is a part of the project life cycle and it is done to ensure the solution meets requirements and quality standards. Quality...

The Cost of Quality Building quality steps in the schedule adds a certain amount of effort and cost to the project. However, these incremental costs will be rewarded with shorter timelines and reduced costs throughout the life cycle of the solution. Examples of the cost of quality include: Deliverable reviews. There is a cost associated with the time of the people attending the reviews. This includes any preparation, the actual review time for all participants, and the resulting follow-up work from the review. Creation of the Quality Management Plan. The time required to plan quality into the project and the solution, including identifying completeness and correctness criteria. Client approval. The time and effort required for the client to review interim and final deliverables and formally approve them as being correct and complete. Testing. Testing is a part of the project life cycle and it is done to ensure the solution meets requirements and quality standards. Quality...

Many people find quality management to be one of the more difficult project management processes to implement. This is because quality is hard to define, and formal quality management requires you to collect metrics to validate the state of quality. The following process will help create a framework for the quality management process. 1. Create a Quality Management Plan Develop a Quality Management Plan to identify the major deliverables, completeness and correctness criteria, quality control activities and quality assurance activities. The Quality Management Plan also describes how you will ensure that the client’s quality requirements are achieved. It is the place to describe the processes and activities that will be put into place to ensure that quality deliverables are produced.  2. Determine the customer requirements for quality Work with your customer to determine their requirements for quality. The high-level characteristics of quality can be uncovered during the project definit...

Many people find quality management to be one of the more difficult project management processes to implement. This is because quality is hard to define, and formal quality management requires you to collect metrics to validate the state of quality. The following process will help create a framework for the quality management process. 1. Create a Quality Management Plan Develop a Quality Management Plan to identify the major deliverables, completeness and correctness criteria, quality control activities and quality assurance activities. The Quality Management Plan also describes how you will ensure that the client’s quality requirements are achieved. It is the place to describe the processes and activities that will be put into place to ensure that quality deliverables are produced. 2. Determine the customer requirements for quality Work with your customer to determine their requirements for quality. The high-level characteristics of quality can be uncovered during the project definiti...

For many years, those were your choices. But now there is a different choice for IT development - Agile.  Calling them methodologies is probably too broad a word. It might be better to refer to them as approaches for doing development, or even philosophies. There are four general beliefs that light methodologies have in common. Develop in short cycles. Agile "sprints" usually take no more than 30 days each - or shorter. Partial solutions should be up and running in a very short time, with very tight iterative cycles designed to deliver continually working code that is built up to a final solution. Value the people. People should be valued and treated with respect. Managers should trust them to do a good job and get out of the way. Agile teams work on a challenging but steady pace that can theoretically be sustained indefinitely. Involve the client. If you are going to achieve the rapid results, the client must be an integral part of the project team. In fact, they should b...

Many people find quality management to be one of the more difficult project management processes to implement. This is because quality is hard to define, and formal quality management requires you to collect metrics to validate the state of quality. The following process will help create a framework for the quality management process. 1. Create a Quality Management Plan Develop a Quality Management Plan to identify the major deliverables, completeness and correctness criteria, quality control activities and quality assurance activities. The Quality Management Plan also describes how you will ensure that the client’s quality requirements are achieved. It is the place to describe the processes and activities that will be put into place to ensure that quality deliverables are produced.  2. Determine the customer requirements for quality Work with your customer to determine their requirements for quality. The high-level characteristics of quality can be uncovered during the project definit...