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PMP Quality Management
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1. 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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2. Is about making sure that the product you build has the best design possible to fit the customer's needs.
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
Fitness for Use
Six Sigma
3. Quality control measurements - Validated changes - Validated deliverables - Organizational process assets - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Producer's Risk
Inputs into the Plan Quality Process
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
4. Concept developed by the Japanese where materials are provided only when they are needed in manufacturing environments.
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Affinity Diagrams
Juran's trilogy
Perform Quality Assurance
5. 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
Outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Conformance to Requirements
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
Flowcharting (Technique)
6. Diagrams of the forces for and against change. (Additional quality planning tool)
Force Field Analysis
Consumer's Risk
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
7. The measured value is very close to the true value.
Project Quality
Accuracy
Rule of Seven
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
8. 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
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Fitness-for-use
Sampling Plan
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
9. 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.
Variable Sampling
Control Limits
Warranties
Three well-known process improvement models
10. A continuous strategy based on ongoing incremental betterment within an organization.
Three well-known process improvement models
Process improvement
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Warranties
11. 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.
Inspection (Technique)
External Failures
Specification Limits
Deming's 14 activities for implementing quality
12. Looking at how much your quality activities will cost versus how much you will gain from doing them.
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
Outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
13. Organizational process assets updates - Change requests - Project management plan updates - Project document updates
Proprietary Quality Management Methodologies (Tool/Technique)
Quality Policy
Perform Quality Assurance
Outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
14. 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.
Loss functions
Attribute Sampling
Cost of Quality (COQ)
Project Quality Management (Knowledge Area)
15. 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.
Fitness-for-use
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
A good quality management plan
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
16. Diagrams that are used to visually identify logical groupings based on natural relationships. (Additional quality planning tool)
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Affinity Diagrams
Attribute Sampling
Perform Quality Assurance
17. Pattern in control chart in which there is a repeating pattern of points.
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Cycle
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
18. 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
Process Quality
External Failures
Warranties
Just-In-Time (JIT)
19. 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
Quality Audit (Tool/Technique)
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Three well-known process improvement models
Proprietary Quality Management Methodologies (Tool/Technique)
20. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Work performance information - Quality control measurements
Quality Policy
Specification
Inputs into the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Seven primary strategies for TQM as defined by Kerzner
21. 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
Inspection (Technique)
Control Charts (Tool)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Tool/Technique)
Warranties
22. 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.
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
Quality Objective
Scatter Diagrams (Tool/Technique)
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
23. 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)
Quality Policy
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
Project Quality
24. Total Quality Management (TQM) - Continuous Improvement Process (CIP or Kaizan) - Six Sigma - Lean Sigma
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
Limit Huggers
Costs of conformance (prevention costs)
Design of Experiments (Tool/Technique)
25. 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
Limit Huggers
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Cause and Effect Diagram (Tool/Technique)
26. Cause and effect diagrams - Control charts - Flowcharting - Histogram - Paneto chart - Run chart - Scatter diagram - Statistical sampling - Inspection - Approved change requests review
Loss functions
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
Flowcharting (Technique)
Fitness for Use
27. 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
Specification
Accuracy
Seven primary strategies for TQM as defined by Kerzner
Six Sigma
28. Plan quality and perform quality control tools and techniques - Quality audits - Process analysis
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Assurance Process
Consumer's Risk
Statistical Sampling (Tool/Technique)
Run Charts (Tool/Technique)
29. 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
Precision
Proprietary Quality Management Methodologies (Tool/Technique)
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Grade
30. Costs of nonconformance associated with those that have reached the customer. Includes costs associated with handling and resolving customer concerns.
Costs on nonconformance (internal or external failures)
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
External Failures
Total Quality Management (TQM)
31. Scope baseline - Stakeholder register - Cost performance baseline - Schedule baseline - Risk register - Enterprise environmental factors - Organizational process assets
Quality Control Measurements (Output/Input)
Perform Quality Assurance
Fitness-for-use
Inputs into the Plan Quality Process
32. Pattern in control chart in which there is a run of seven or more points above or below the mean indicating adjustment is needed.
Producer's Risk
Rule of Seven
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Perform Quality Control (Process)
33. 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
Customer Satisfaction
Six Sigma
Trend
Non-proprietary approaches to quality
34. 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.
Flowcharting (Technique)
Variable Sampling
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
35. 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
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Specification
Product Quality
Trend
36. 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
Fitness for Use
Philip Crosby's 14 steps to improving quality
Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) or Kaizan
Total Quality Management (TQM)
37. 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.
Benchmarking (Tool/Technique)
Run Charts (Tool/Technique)
Control Limits
A good quality management plan
38. Well known for his four-step cycle to improve quality: Plan - Do - Check - Act (PDCA).
W. Edwards Deming
Limit Huggers
Tools and techniques of the Perform Quality Control Process
Quality Management Plan (Output/Input)
39. 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.
Fitness for Use
Run
Lean Six Sigma
Six Sigma
40. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points are on the same side of the mean.
Trend
Sampling Plan
Run
Pareto Chart (Tool)
41. 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
A good quality management plan
Product Quality
Run Charts (Tool/Technique)
Fitness-for-use
42. 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.
Quality Policy
Process Quality
Histograms (Tool/Technique)
Pareto Chart (Tool)
43. 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
Attribute Sampling
Variable
Project Quality
Outputs of the Perform Quality Control Process
44. Quality training - Studies - Surveys - Validation and audits
Inspection (Technique)
Quality Metrics (Output/Input)
Grade
Costs of conformance (prevention costs)
45. Management commitment - measurement - zero defect planning - goal setting - quality awareness and quality councils.
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46. Pattern in control chart in which a series of consecutive points have an increasing or decreasing pattern.
Specification Limits
Trend
Control Charts (Tool)
Seven primary strategies for TQM as defined by Kerzner
47. Anything measured. (Sampling Definition)
Planning Processes (Process Group)
Just-In-Time (JIT)
Variable
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
48. Project management plan - Quality metrics - Quality checklists - Work performance measurements - Approved change requests - Deliverables - Organizational process assets
Consumer's Risk
Run
Attribute
Inputs into the Perform Quality Control Process
49. Cost benefit analysis - Cost of quality - Control charts - Benchmarking - Design of experiments - Statistical sampling - Flowcharting - Proprietary quality management methodologies - Additional quality planning tools
Tools and techniques of the Plan Quality Process
Variable
Quality Policy
Outputs of the Plan Quality Process
50. Form of sampling where ether a work result conforms to quality or it does not.
Force Field Analysis
Attribute Sampling
Nominal Group Techniques
Non-proprietary approaches to quality