Planning: Quality Management Flashcards

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Includes the processes of incorporating the organization’s quality policy regarding planning, managing, and controlling project and product quality requirements, in order to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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Project Quality Management

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A component of the project or program management plan that describes how applicable policies, procedures, and guidelines will be implemented to achieve the quality objectives.

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Quality Management Plan

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3
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Process that involves creating a Quality Management Approach

tells us how

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Plan Quality

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4
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Process that ensures we are using the quality standards/processes as planned

Inspect the work

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Manage Quality

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Process that means evaluating the actual quality of the product (and the overall project management effort)

inspect the actual deliverable

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Control Quality

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The process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and its deliverables, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance with quality requirements and/or standards.

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Plan Quality Management

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A component of the PMP that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution.

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Stakeholder Engagement Plan

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A project document including the identification, assessment, and classification of project stakeholders.

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Stakeholder Register

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The comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring performance.

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Benchmarking

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A forma or informal approach to elicit information from stakeholders by talking to them directly.

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Interviews

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A financial analysis tool used to determine the benefits provided by a project against its costs.

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Cost-benefit analysis

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The technique utilizes a decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria, such as risk levels, uncertainty, and valuation, to evaluate and rank many ideas.

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Multicriteria Decision Analysis

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The depiction in a diagram format of the inputs, process actions, and outputs of one or more processes within a system.

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Flowchart

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A quality management and control tool used to perform data analysis within the organizational structure created in the matrix.

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Matrix Diagram

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A technique used to consolidate ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding and to generate new ideas.

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Mind mapping

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16
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Seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.

Each project follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified efficiency targets (cost reduction and/or profit increase).

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Six Sigma

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17
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A managerial concept that blends lean with ___ to eliminate the seven kinds of wastes to achieve a defect rate of 3.4 defects or less per million opportunities.

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Lean Six Sigma

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18
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DMAIC

(methodology approach)

Lean Six Sigma

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Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control

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DMADV

(methodology approach)

Lean Six Sigma

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Define
Measure
Analyze
Design
Verify

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20
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Transportation, Inventory, Waiting, Overproduction, Over-processing, Motion, Defects

TIMWOOD

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Seven kinds of waste

(Lean Six Sigma)

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21
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What is one difference between Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma?

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Six Sigma is looking for efficiencies

Lean Six Sigma is looking for wastes in the processes

22
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What is the difference between Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC and DMADV?

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DMAIC is looking to improve an existing process.

DMADV is looking to design a new process.

23
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A method for managing knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time (JIT) delivery (current work) while not overloading the team members (all of the work)

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KanBan

24
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Visualize work
Limit work in process
Focus on flow
Continuous improvement

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Four principles of KanBan

25
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Developed standards for different industries for products, services, and systems to ensure quality, safety, and efficiency

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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

26
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Equivalent to the ISO9000s quality standards

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British Standard (BS)

27
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A process improvement framework to help organizations build capability in their people and processes, with five maturity levels.

Formed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

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What are the five levels of CMMI?

Capability Maturity Model Integration maturity levels

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Initial: processes unpredictable

Managed: processes often reactive

Defined: processes as proactive

Quantitatively Managed: processes are measured and controlled

Optimizing: focus on process improvement

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Formed to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity developed technical standards and information for the electrical, electronics, and computing industries

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

30
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Seeks out customer needs, uncovers “positive” quality that impresses the customer and translates these into design characteristics and deliverable actions

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Quality Function Deployment

31
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The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements.

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Quality

32
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A category assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics.

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Grade

33
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The basis for quality improvement as defined by Shewhart and modified by Deming

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Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle

PDCA

34
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Total cost of ownership, divided into two main categories, each with 2 subcategories.

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Cost of Quality (CoQ)

35
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What are the two main categories of Cost of Quality?

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Cost of Conformance
and
Cost of Nonfconformance

36
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What are the two subcategories of CoQ’s Cost of Conformance?

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Prevention costs and Appraisal costs

37
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What are the two subcategories of CoQ’s Cost of Nonconformance?

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Internal Failure Costs and External Failure Costs

38
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SIPOC Model

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Suppliers, Inputs, Processes, Outputs, Customers

with feedback loop and requirements/measurement lists

39
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A description of a project or product attribute and how to measure it

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Quality Metrics

40
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Used to identify the root cause of a problem.

Are used when causes are found while looking at the problem statement and asking why.

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Ishikawa Diagrams

aka Fishbone Diagrams

41
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Who sets the Specification Limits and Control Limits?

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The PM and project team set the Control Limits.

The customer sets the Specification Limits.

42
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A guideline often used for estimating activity durations during project planning.

Suggests to break down activities into intervals of seven units.

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Rule of Seven

43
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A measure of exactness

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Precision

44
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An assessment of correctness

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Accuracy

45
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Used to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable perfromance

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Control chartsU

46
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Used to organize facts in a way that will facilitate the effective collection of useful data about a potential quality problem

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Check sheets

47
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Training
Document processes
Equipment
Time to do it right

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Examples of CoQ’s Cost of Conformance’s Prevention Costs

48
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Testing
Destructive testing loss
Inspections

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Examples of CoQ’s Cost of Conformance’s Appraisal Costs

49
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Rework
Scrap

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Examples of CoQ’s Cost of Nonconformance’s Internal Failure Costs

50
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Liabilities
Warranty work
Lost business

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Examples of CoQ’s Cost of Nonconformance’s External Failure Costs