Wikibooks: Development Cooperation Handbook/Designing and Executing Projects/Project Execution and Control/Implement Quality Assurance and Quality Control

in Project Execution and control [[quality control]] involves monitoring the project and its progress to determine if the quality assurance activities defined during Project Planning are being implemented and whether the results meet the quality standards defined during Project Initiation and Planning. The entire organization has responsibilities relating to quality but the primary responsibility for ensuring that the project follows its defined quality procedures ultimately belongs to the Project Manager. The following figure highlights the potential results of executing a project with poor quality compared to a project executed with high quality Quality control should be performed throughout the course of the project. Some of the activities and processes that can be used to monitor the quality of deliverables determine if project results comply with quality standards and identify ways to improve unsatisfactory performance are described below. The Project Manager and Project Sponsor should decide which are best to implement in their specific project environment. Conduct Peer Reviews – the goal of a peer review is to identify and remove quality issues from a deliverable as early and as efficiently as possible. A peer review is a thorough review of a specific deliverable conducted by members of the Project Team who are the day to day peers of the individuals who produced the work. The peer review process adds time to the overall Project Schedule but in many project situations the benefits of conducting a review far outweigh the time considerations. The Project Manager must evaluate the needs of his/her project determine and document which if any deliverables should follow this process and build the required time and resources into the Project Schedule. Prior to conducting a peer review a Project Team member should be identified as the facilitator or person responsible for keeping the review on track. The facilitator should distribute all relevant information pertaining to the deliverable to all participants in ...