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PMP Quality Management
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1. 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
Cycle
Deming's 14 activities for implementing quality
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
Flowcharting (Technique)
2. 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
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Run Charts (Tool/Technique)
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
A good quality management plan
3. Pattern in control chart in which there is a run of seven or more points above or below the mean indicating adjustment is needed.
Variable
Quality Policy
Rule of Seven
Trend
4. Well known for his four-step cycle to improve quality: Plan - Do - Check - Act (PDCA).
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
W. Edwards Deming
Total Quality Management (TQM)
5. Is about making sure that the product you build has the best design possible to fit the customer's needs.
Trend
Fitness for Use
External Failures
Process improvement
6. 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.
Quality Management Plan (Output/Input)
Flowcharting (Technique)
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
7. A statement written for the project by the project team of desired results to be achieved within a specified time frame.
Producer's Risk
Quality Objective
Project Quality
Control Limits
8. Form of sampling where ether a work result conforms to quality or it does not.
Attribute Sampling
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Fitness for Use
Affinity Diagrams
9. 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.
Planning Processes (Process Group)
Attribute Sampling
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
10. Identifying which Quality Standards are relevant to the project and product and determining how to satisfy them. - Benchmarketing past projects to find ideas for improvements and to establish quality performance measures. - Using Cost Benefit Analysi
Plan Quality (Process)
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
Conformance to Requirements
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
11. 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
Fitness-for-use
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
12. 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.
Inputs into the Plan Quality Process
Quality
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Specification
13. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - Malcolm Baldridge - Organizational Project Maturity Model (OPM3)
Process improvement
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
Three well-known process improvement models
Fitness-for-use
14. 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
Trend
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
Quality
15. 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.
Quality Objective
Perform Quality Control (Process)
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
Variable Sampling
16. Quality control measurements - Validated changes - Validated deliverables - Organizational process assets - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates
Inspection (Technique)
Crosby's 4 absolutes of quality
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
17. (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
Specification
Process Quality
Cost of Quality (COQ)
Variable
18. Pattern in control chart in which there is a repeating pattern of points.
External Failures
Cycle
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
Inspection (Technique)
19. 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
Control Limits
Pareto Chart (Tool)
Specification
Project Quality
20. 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.
Trend
Specification Limits
W. Edwards Deming
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
21. Management commitment - measurement - zero defect planning - goal setting - quality awareness and quality councils.
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22. 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.
Flowcharting (Technique)
Specification Limits
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
Rule of Seven
23. Costs of nonconformance associated with scrapping or reworking the product before it reaches the end customer.
Control Charts (Tool)
Conformance to Requirements
Internal Failures
Perform Quality Assurance
24. 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
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Seven primary strategies for TQM as defined by Kerzner
Loss functions
Quality Objective
25. A category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use (e.g. - "hammer") but do not share the same requirements for quality (e.g. - different hammers may need to withstand difference amounts of force). *Describes how much peop
Control Limits
Flowcharting (Technique)
Grade
Consumer's Risk
26. 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
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Customer Satisfaction
Quality Objective
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
27. 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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28. The measured value is very close to the true value.
Product Quality
Accuracy
Control Limits
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
29. Scope baseline - Stakeholder register - Cost performance baseline - Schedule baseline - Risk register - Enterprise environmental factors - Organizational process assets
Inputs into the Plan Quality Process
Attribute
Three well-known process improvement models
Perform Quality Control (Process)
30. Characteristic of the product that is appraised in terms of whether or not it exists. (Sampling Definition)
Affinity Diagrams
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Attribute
31. Total Quality Management (TQM) - Continuous Improvement Process (CIP or Kaizan) - Six Sigma - Lean Sigma
Quality Objective
Attribute
Consumer's Risk
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
32. 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
Control Limits
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
Process Quality
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
33. 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
Loss functions
Sampling Plan
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
Grade
34. Assurance that the products are fit for use or the customer receives compensation. It could cover downtime and maintenance costs.
Accuracy
Warranties
Planning Processes (Process Group)
Lean Six Sigma
35. The change of rejecting a good lot prior to selling to the customer. (Sampling Definition)
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36. Cause and effect diagrams - Control charts - Flowcharting - Histogram - Paneto chart - Run chart - Scatter diagram - Statistical sampling - Inspection - Approved change requests review
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
Perform Quality Control (Process)
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
37. Must include sample size and the acceptance criteria. (Sampling Definition)
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
Lean Six Sigma
Sampling Plan
38. The core of both customer satisfaction and fitness for use. Your product needs to do what you wrote down in your requirements specifications. Your requirements should take into account both what will satisfy your customer and the best design possible
Conformance to Requirements
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
39. Plan quality and perform quality control tools and techniques - Quality audits - Process analysis
Nominal Group Techniques
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Affinity Diagrams
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
40. 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.
Control Limits
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Loss functions
Variable
41. Process frameworks and methodologies that project managers use to improve quality. These include Six Sigma - Lean Six Sigma - Quality Function Deployment - CMMI - etc.
Fitness-for-use
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
Juran's trilogy
Proprietary Quality Management Methodologies (Tool/Technique)
42. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Work performance information - Quality control measurements
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
External Failures
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Precision
43. Diagrams of the forces for and against change. (Additional quality planning tool)
Project Quality
Quality
Force Field Analysis
Trend
44. 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
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Process Quality
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
Plan Quality (Process)
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
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
Crosby's 4 absolutes of quality
Three well-known process improvement models
Inspection (Technique)
46. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Quality checklists - Work performance measurements - Approved change requests - Deliverables - Organizational process assets
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Attribute Sampling
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
47. Concept developed by the Japanese where materials are provided only when they are needed in manufacturing environments.
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Rule of Seven
Fitness for Use
Just-In-Time (JIT)
48. 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.
Lean Six Sigma
Quality
Nominal Group Techniques
Project Quality
49. 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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50. A continuous strategy based on ongoing incremental betterment within an organization.
Flowcharting (Technique)
Six Sigma
Process improvement
Conformance to Requirements