Planning for Quality


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Project Quality Management focuses on ensuring two things: the quality of project management and the quality of the products created during the project. Project Quality Management implements the quality management system by using policies, procedures, and the following processes: Quality Planning, Perform Quality Assurance, and Perform Quality Control. Through interactive learning strategies and real-life scenarios, the learner will explore these concepts and gain a better understanding of the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the Project Quality Management processes. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Inc., 2004. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.

Target Audience
Project managers who are seeking to further their project management skills to more advanced levels

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

The Importance of Project Quality Management

  • recognize the reasons why Project Quality Management is important.
  • match each Project Quality Management process with the description of its role in a project.
  • match the Project Process Groups with examples of Project Quality Management activities that take place within them.
  • Engaging in Quality Planning

  • recognize the benefits of planning for project and product quality.
  • match the inputs to Quality Planning with the descriptions of how they are used.
  • match the Quality Planning tools and techniques with the descriptions of how they are used.
  • perform cost-benefit analysis for a given situation.
  • match the outputs from Quality Planning with their descriptions.
  • Course Number:
    PROJ0561