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PMP Quality Management

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1. Quality control measurements - Validated changes - Validated deliverables - Organizational process assets - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates






2. Making sure that the people who are paying for the end product are happy with what they get. This requires a combination of conformance to requirements (to ensure that the product produces what it was created to produce) and fitness for use (the prod






3. Typically defined within the project charter - this type of quality is usually expressed in terms of meeting stated schedule - cost and scope objectives. It can also be addressed in terms of meeting business objectives that have been specified in the






4. Diagrams of the forces for and against change. (Additional quality planning tool)






5. Quality improvement cycle popularized by W. Edwards Deming and used by a lot of Kaizen practitioners.based on making small improvements - and measuring how much benefit they make before you change your process to include them. This cycle is the basis






6. Quality is conformance to requirements - The system of quality is prevention - The performance standard is zero defects - The measure of quality if the price of nonconformance

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7. An approach to quality which involves sustained gradual change for improvement. The plan-do-check act cycle developed by Deming is the basis for this approach.. *It focuses on making small improvements and measuring their impact.






8. The area composed of three standard deviations on either side of the centerline or mean - of a normal distribution of data plotted on a control chart that reflects the expected variation in the data.






9. A popular philosophy of quality management that focuses on achieving very high levels of quality by controlling the process and reducing the defects. An organized process that utilizes quality management for problem resolution and process improvement






10. Comparing actual or planned project practices to those of comparable projects to identify best practices - generate ideas for improvement - and provide a basis for measuring performance.






11. Specific to the type of product or service being produced and the customer expectations - the level of this type of quality will vary. Organizations strive to have efficient and effective processes in support of the product quality expected. For exam






12. Organizational process assets updates - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates






13. Technique that allows ideas to be brainstormed in small groups and then reviewed by a larger group. (Additional quality planning tool)






14. Quality control tool that shows how various causes and subcauses relate to create problems and effects. Used to figure out what caused a defect. You list all the categories of the defects that you have identified and then write the possible causes of






15. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics satisfied the stated or implied needs of the customer. Measurement of how closely your product meets its requirements and does what you needed it to do.






16. The kinds of measurements you'll take throughout your project to figure out its quality. You need to write down the formulas you'll use - when you will do the measurements - why you are taking them - and how you will interpret them.






17. Form of sampling where ether a work result conforms to quality or it does not.






18. Describes how the project managment team will implement it's quality policy and will provide input to the overall project management plan.






19. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points have an increasing or decreasing pattern.






20. Histograms ordered by frequency of occurrence and help you figure out which problems need your attention right away. These charts are conceptually related to Pareto's law - which visually shows that 20% of causes produce 80% of defects.






21. The measured value is very close to the true value.






22. A concept developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi - as variation for the target increases - losses will also increase. His rule for manufacturing is based on the concept that the best opportunity to eliminate variation is during the design of a product and






23. Line graphs showing data points plotted in the sequence of occurrence. It is used for analysis in trends over time. Can be used for technical performance such as measuring errors or defects - or cost and schedule performance through the use of earned






24. The area - on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service. This area may be greater than or less than the area defined by the control limits.






25. Costs of nonconformance associated with those that have reached the customer. Includes costs associated with handling and resolving customer concerns.






26. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result - or service conforms to specified requirements. Used after the work is complete and may use checklists and data tables to assist in measuring - examining and testing






27. Must include sample size and the acceptance criteria. (Sampling Definition)






28. A statement of principles for what the organization defines as quality. This policy is usually endorsed by senior management and can be adopted or adjusted to fit the needs of the project.






29. Means the value of repeated measurements are clustered and have little scatter. Not necessary accurate. *The degree of reproducibility.






30. The change of rejecting a good lot prior to selling to the customer. (Sampling Definition)

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31. Well known for his four-step cycle to improve quality: Plan - Do - Check - Act (PDCA).






32. Solicit improvement ideas from employees - Encourage teams to identify and solve problems. - Encourage team development - Benchmark every major activity in the organization - Utilize process management techniques - Develop staff to be entrepreneurial






33. Uses participative approach to quality - Adopt new philosophy of quality throughout the organization - - Cease the use of mass inspections - End awards based on price - Improve production and service - Institute leadership - Eliminate numerical quota

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34. All the results of your inspections: the number of defects you've found - number of tests that passed or failed - etc.






35. Involves choosing part of a population for inspection for the purpose of accepting or rejecting the entire lot. The results can be depicted through the use of variety of charting methods such as histograms - scatter diagrams or Pareto diagrams.






36. Where you apply the scientific method to create a set of tests for your project's deliverables. It's a statistical method - which means you use statistics to analyze the results of your experiments to determine how your deliverables best meet the req






37. Form of sampling that measures how well something conforms to quality.






38. Scope baseline - Stakeholder register - Cost performance baseline - Schedule baseline - Risk register - Enterprise environmental factors - Organizational process assets






39. The process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes. *This is where you look at each deliverable and inspect it for defects.






40. Looking at how much your quality activities will cost versus how much you will gain from doing them.






41. The depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system. Means coming up with a graphical depiction of the process you're doing so that you can anticipate where quality activities might






42. Diagrams that are used to visually identify logical groupings based on natural relationships. (Additional quality planning tool)






43. The processes performed to establish the total scope of the effort - define and refine the objectives - and develop the course of action required to attain those objectives.






44. Is about making sure that the product you build has the best design possible to fit the customer's needs.






45. A continuous strategy based on ongoing incremental betterment within an organization.






46. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points are on the same side of the mean.






47. Costs of nonconformance associated with scrapping or reworking the product before it reaches the end customer.






48. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Work performance information - Quality control measurements






49. Plan quality and perform quality control tools and techniques - Quality audits - Process analysis






50. A quality theory popularized after World War II that states that everyone in the company is responsible for the quality and is able to make a difference in the ultimate quality of the product. Applies to improvements in the processes and in the resul