Extracts from Dr. Ginger Levin and J. LeRoy Ward - Quality
Quality assurance increases project effectiveness and efficiency and provides added benefits to project stakeholders. It includes all the planned and systematic quality activities to ensure that the project uses all the processes to meet requirements. Quality assurance should be performed throughout the project. Benchmarking involves comparing actual or planned practices to those practices of comparable projects to identify best practices, to note ideas for improvement, and to provide a way to measure performance. Design of experiments: This technique is used to identify which variables have the most influence. It is a statistical method to identify the factors that may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production. The Taguchi method is used to estimate the loss associated with controlling or failing to control process variablility. It is based on the principle that by carefully selecting design parameters to p...