Tag: quality management

A friend forwarded me a great link to the Management Encyclopedia website survey of the quality gurus.  Now this was an interesting read!  They have a list of 10 quality gurus, including: W. Edwards Deming Dr. Joseph Juran Philip Crosby Armand V. Feigenbaum Dr. H. James Harrington Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa Dr. Walter A. Shewhart Shigeo Shingo […]

When it’s time to figure out how to approach quality management on your projects, you need to start from the top down.  Step 1 is to establish a quality policy and high-level approach that applies consistently across all projects in the organization.  If you are lucky, your organization already has a corporate quality policy for you to follow […]

Since we are on the subject of PRINCE2 and quality, it seems like a good time to mention the PRINCE2 quality review technique.  It works GREAT, and I recommend that you try it on for size the next time you have a major project deliverable that needs a group review and blessing. The PRINCE2 quality […]

What are the quality planning activities that project managers should use on their projects?  When targeting project success, PRINCE2 focuses on controlling the six key variables found on any project: costs, timescales, quality, scope, risk and benefits.    It’s one thing to list these six variables in a simple list.  It is quite another thing for […]

I read a very interesting survey about IT project success yesterday, done by Scott Ambler.  Check out the details of the survey at http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/success2007.html.   This is really interesting project data and well worth a look! What really struck me about the survey was the thought that we project managers do not use the correct measures for project success.  […]