Understanding Controlling Quality For Projects
Control Quality is the process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities in order to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete , correct, and meet customers expectations. The key benefits of this process is verifying that project deliverables and work meet the requirements specified by key stakeholders for final acceptance.
The control quality process determines if the project outputs do what they were intended to do. Those outputs need to comply with all applicable standards requirements , regulations , and specifications.
This process is performed throughout the project.
The control quality process is performed to measure the completeness, compliance , and fitness for use of a product or service prior to user acceptance and final delivery.
This is done by measuring all steps , attributes and variables used to verify conformance to the specifications stated during the planning stage.
Quality control should be performed throughout the project to formally demonstrate , with valuable data ,that the sponsor’s and/or customer acceptance criteria have been met.
The level of effort to control quality and the degree of implementation may differ between industries and project management styles; in pharmaceutical, health , transportation, and nuclear industries , for example, there may be stricter quality control procedures compared to other industries, and the effort needed to meet the standards may be expensive.
For example, in agile projects, the control quality activities may be performed by all team members throughout the project life cycle.
In waterfall model-based projects, the quality control activities are performed at specific times , toward the end of the project or phase, by specified team members.