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PMP Quality Management

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1. 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.






2. A business improvement methodology that strives to achieve the fastest rate of improvement on quality - process speed and customer satisfaction while lowering costs and invested capital.






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






4. 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


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






6. Concept developed by Joseph Juran - looks at three components of quality: - Quality of Design (design may have many grades) - Quality of Conformance (determined by choice of process - training - adherence to program and motivation) - Quality Characte






7. Total Quality Management (TQM) - Continuous Improvement Process (CIP or Kaizan) - Six Sigma - Lean Sigma






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






9. (Technique) A method of determining the costs incurred to ensure quality. Prevention and appraisal costs (cost of comformance) include costs for quality - planning - quality control (QC) - and quality assurance to ensure compliance to requirements (i






10. 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






11. Used to show the correlation between two characteristics. If there is a strong correlation - minor changes to one variable will change the other variable. The relative correlation of one characteristic to the other can be seen by the pattern formed b






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






13. Tool that gives a graphical display of results of a process over time. Include a defined upper and lower control limit - a mean and a visual pattern indicating out-of-control conditions such as outliers (points outside upper [UCL] or lower [LCL] cont






14. 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.






15. Cause and effect diagrams - Control charts - Flowcharting - Histogram - Paneto chart - Run chart - Scatter diagram - Statistical sampling - Inspection - Approved change requests review






16. Specific to the type of product produced and the customer requirements - this type of quality measures the extent to which the end product(s) of the project meets the specified requirements. It can be expressed in terms that include - but are not lim






17. Pattern in control chart in which there is a repeating pattern of points.






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. Design control - Document control - Purchased material control - Material identification control - Inspections - Test control - Measuring and testing equipment control - Corrective actions - Quality assurance records - Quality audits - Process improv






23. 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.






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






25. Quality training - Studies - Surveys - Validation and audits






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Cost benefit analysis - Cost of quality - Control charts - Benchmarking - Design of experiments - Statistical sampling - Flowcharting - Proprietary quality management methodologies - Additional quality planning tools






30. Process frameworks and methodologies that project managers use to improve quality. These include Six Sigma - Lean Six Sigma - Quality Function Deployment - CMMI - etc.






31. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - Malcolm Baldridge - Organizational Project Maturity Model (OPM3)






32. 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.






33. 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






34. Tool that is commonly used in statistics as a graphical display of tabulated frequencies. The categories are usually denoted on the x-axis with the height of the bar displaying the proportion of cases that fall into each category. *Great for helping






35. Independent evaluations of quality performance to ensure that intended quality will be met; products are safe and fit for use; laws and regulations are followed; data systems are adequate; corrective action is taken if needed; improvement opportuniti






36. Assurance that the products are fit for use or the customer receives compensation. It could cover downtime and maintenance costs.






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. Includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives - and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.






41. The change of accepting a bad lot after purchase.(Sampling Definition)


42. A document that specifies - in a complete - precise - verifiable manner - the requirements - design - behavior - or other characteristics of a system - component - product - result - or service and - often - the procedures for determining whether the






43. 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






44. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Quality checklists - Work performance measurements - Approved change requests - Deliverables - Organizational process assets






45. 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






46. 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.






47. An approach to improving quality: - Plan - Improve - Control


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






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






50. 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.