Includes the processes and activities of the performing
organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and
responsibilities.
Uses policies and procedures to implement, within the project’s context, the
organization’s quality management system
Works to ensure that the project requirements,
including product requirements, are met and validated
Plan Quality
Management
Definition
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
INPUTS
Project Management
Plan
Scope baseline
Schedule
baseline
Cost baseline
Other management
plans
Stakeholder
register
Risk
register
Requirements
documentation
Enterprise Environmental
Factors
Organizational Process
Assets
TOOLS AND
TECHNIQUES
Cost-Benefit Analysis
The primary benefits of meeting quality requirements include less rework, higher productivity, lower costs, increased
stakeholder satisfaction, and increased profitability.
compares the cost of the quality step to the expected benefit.
Cost of
Quality (COQ)
Includes all costs incurred over the life of the product by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements,
appraising the product or service for conformance to requirements, and failing to meet requirements (rework)
Seven Basic
Quality tools
Cause-and-effect
diagrams
Flowcharts
Checksheets
Pareto diagrams
Histograms
Controlcharts
Scatter diagrams
Benchmarking
Design of
Experiments
Statistical
Sampling
Additional Quality
Planning tools
Brainstorming.
Force field analysis
Nominal group technique.
Quality management and control tools
Meetings
OUTPUTS
Quality Management
Plan
Component of the project management plan that describes
how the organization’s quality policies will be implemented
Process Improvement Plan
Process boundaries
Process configuration
Process metrics
Targets for improved performance
Quality
Metrics
Describes a project or product attribute and how the control quality
process will measure it
Quality
checklists
Structured tool, usually component-specific, used to verify that a set of
required steps has been performed
Project documents updates
Stakeholder register
Responsibility assignment matrix
WBS and WBS Dictionary.
Benefit
It provides guidance and direction on how quality will be managed and validated throughout the
project
Perform Quality
Assurance
Definition
The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to
ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used.
INPUTS
Quality Management Plan
Process Improvement Plan
Quality Metrics
Quality control
Measurements
Are the results of control quality activities
Project documents
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Quality Management and Control Tools
Affinity diagrams
Used to generate ideas that can be linked to form organized patterns of thought about a problem
Process decision program charts (PDPC)
Used to understand a goal in relation to the steps for getting to the goal
Interrelationship digraphs
An adaptation of relationship diagrams
Tree diagrams
Used to represent decomposition hierarchies such as the WBS, RBS and OBS
Prioritization matrices
Identify the key issues and the suitable alternatives to be prioritized as a set of decisions for implementation.
Activity network diagrams
Previously known as arrow diagrams
Matrix diagrams
used to perform data analysis within the organizational structure created in the matrix
Quality Audits
Is a structured, independent process to determine if project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and
procedures.
Process Analysis
Follows the steps outlined in the process improvement plan to identify needed improvements
Outputs
Change Requests
Used to take corrective action, preventive action, or to
perform defect repair.
Project Management Plan Updates
Quality management plan
Scope management plan
Schedule management plan
Cost management plan
Project Documents Updates
Quality audit reports
Training plans
Process documentation
Organizational Process Assets Updates
Benefit
It facilitates the improvement of quality processes
Control Quality
Definition
The process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality
activities to assess performance and recommend necessary change
INPUTS
Project management plan
Quality metrics
Quality checklists
Work performance data
Planned vs. actual technical performance
Planned vs. actual schedule performance
Planned vs. actual cost performance
Approved change requests
Deliverables
Project documents
Agreements
Training plans and assessments of effectiveness
Organizational process
assets
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Seven Basic Quality Tools
Statistical Sampling
Inspection
the examination of a work product to determine
if it conforms to documented standards
Approved Change Requests Review
OUTPUTS
Quality Control Measurements
Are the documented results of control quality activities
Validated Changes
Any changed items are inspected and will be either accepted before
notification of the decision is provided
Verified Deliverables
Work Performance Information
Change Requests
Project Management Plan Updates
Project Documents Updates
Organizational Process Assets Updates
Completed checklists
Lessons learned documentation
Benefits
identifying the causes of poor process or product quality and
recommending and/or taking action to eliminate them
Validating that project deliverables and work meet the requirements
specified by key stakeholders necessary for final acceptance