Quiz for Project Quality Management

Guessing out of the blue is not considering in project management. Along with Prioritization Matrices (ranking a diverse set of problems and/or issues, usually generated by brainstorming, by their importance), other choices are used as additional Quality Planning Tools for Plan Quality process. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Quality Management Plan that describes how Quality Control will be used within the project - part of Project Management Plan. Other choices are also input to Quality Control process but not parts of Project Management Plan. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.2.2 Perform Quality Assurance: Tools and Techniques]

Agile Development is a project management methodology for rapid development, not a Quality Management Methodology. Other listed statistical methods are used in Plan Quality process. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram is a graphical representation of Cause Effect analysis. This tool helps to identify and analyze the root causes of problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Project management team is responsible to determine the appropriate levels of accuracy and precision. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Benchmarking is used to compare various project to identify best practices, spawn improvement ideas, and determine the ways to measure for project performance. [1 - 8.1.2.4 Plan Quality: Tool and Techniques]

Creating and following policies and procedures to meet the the accepted quality requirements. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Continuous Improvement of quality; refers to small improvements in Japan and big improvements in United States and Western Europe. This implies to both project and product/service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance - is the definition for Plan Quality process. Other choices in this question are related to other Quality Management processes, including Perform Quality Assurance, Perform Quality Control, and definition of Quality Management in general. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Quality management plan is one of the outputs of Plan Quality process; other listed documents are inputs. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Quality Planing performed in parallel with the other planning processes. Quality requirements, standards or changes may influence the cost and schedule adjustments, as well as detailed risk analysis. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Benchmarking is used to compare various project to identify best practices, spawn improvement ideas, and determine the ways to measure for project performance. [1 - 8.1.2.4 Plan Quality: Tool and Techniques]

DOE also can be used in optimization of products or processes. It may reduce the sensitivity of product performance to sources of variations caused by environmental or manufacturing differences. DOE uses statistical techniques of changing all the important parameters rather than one at the time. Analysis of experimental data should provide the optimal conditions for the product or process, highlight the factors that influence results, and reveal the presence of interactions and synergy among the factors. DOE should be used during Plan Quality process to determine the number and type of tests and their impact on Cost of Quality. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Scheduling approach that synchronizes sequential processes to ensure optimized use of resources and materials with minimum or no waiting or storage time. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Cost of Quality refers to the total cost of all efforts related to quality throughout the product life cycle. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Quality Metrics define project or product attributes and how the Quality Control process measures it. Quality Metrics provide actual values with tolerance that defines the limited variations from the required precision. The tolerance usually defined in actual units or in percentage. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

Quality management processes are different in different industries as the industries are different in general. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

3 Sigma or standard deviation is normally planned range of deviation that planned for Upper and Lower Level Control Limits. [1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Project Quality Management processes are addressing both Quality of project management and product of the project. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.1.3 Plan Quality: Outputs]

Cost of Quality (COQ) is Total cost of all efforts related to quality throughout the product life cycle. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

A project that provided extras called "Gold Plaited". [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

In practice project Quality Management processes can interact and overlap each other. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

"Determine if the project is complying with the enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets" is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Project manager determines which standards, policies, procedures, and plans will be used might be available for the project. This information can be obtainable from Quality Management and /or Technical departments. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Wrong choices provide right definitions. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.2.2 Perform Quality Assurance: Tools and Techniques]

Quality Control team performs quality control on the project. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

A mind map is a diagram used to visually outline information. A mind map is often created around a single word or text, placed in the center, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added. Major categories radiate from a central node, and lesser categories are sub-branches of larger branches. Categories can represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items related to a central key word or idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming [1 - 5.1.2.4 Collect Requirements: Tools and Techniques. Group Creativity Technology]

All stakeholders get negative consequences for failure to meet product of project quality requirements. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

A Run Chart, also known as a run-sequence plot is a graph that displays observed data in a time sequence. Often, the data displayed represent some aspect of the output or performance of a manufacturing or other business process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [1 - 8.3.2.6 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Project team performs planning and executing work on the project. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending order by bars, and the cumulative total is represented by the line. Joseph Juran applied 80/20 rule to create 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto Principle, which suggests 80% of issues are created by 20% of causes. This principle helps to narrow the focus to smaller number of causes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 285; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram is a graphical representation of Cause Effect analysis. This tool helps to identify and analyze the root causes of problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Customer Satisfaction defines understanding, evaluating, defining, and managing expectation so that customer requirements are met. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Statistical Sampling is used in Plan Quality chooses certain parts of subject (processes, activities, documents, products) for inspection. For example, 10 activities to be checked out or 80, or each fifth results to be inspected. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Responsibility for quality is distributed throughout the project team, and whole organization depending on particular application and case.

Organizational approach of encouraging employees to constantly improving the quality of the business, practices and product or services they provide. Such approach may include a system for registration, evaluation, and further management of the ideas, as well as a rewarding mechanism. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Quality Assurance Department performs quality assurance on the project: verifying if the Quality Control processes are executing in accordance with accepted policies, processes, standards, and plans, suggest best practices, and improvements. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Scope Statement (project description, major project deliverables, and acceptance criteria; some technical details may affect the quality planning); WBS (identifies the deliverables, work packages, and control accounts - all used to measure project performance), and WBS dictionary. (defines technical details for WBS and may describe quality requirements). [1 - 8.1.1 Plan Quality: Inputs]

Quality Checklist provides a set of required steps to be performed in Quality Control. Other choices describe other inputs to the Perform Quality Control process. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

Cost of Quality includes Cost of Conformance and Cost of Non-conformance. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

"Perform measurements of project and product performance against accepted standards and requirements" - is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

In statistics and probability theory, standard deviation (represented by the symbol sigma, σ) shows how much variation or "dispersion" exists from the average (mean, or expected value). A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be very close to the mean; high standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a large range of values. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation] [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Prevention over Inspection is one of the fundamental basis of modern quality management. It means planning, designing and building-in prevention of mistakes rather tan inspection activities. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

The repeatable activities may required Process Analysis to increase efficiency. For example, installation or upgrade a considerable number of workstations or upgrading a large number of databases may identify some common tasks to be unified and automated. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 280; 1 - 8.2.2 Perform Quality Assurance: Tools and Techniques]

Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram is a graphical representation of Cause Effect analysis. This tool helps to identify and analyze the root causes of problems. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram] [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Flowcharting is the technique that provides graphical representation of a process and shows the relationship among process steps. There are many styles of flowcharts to display activities, decision points, and the order of processing. While planning quality, Flowcharts can help anticipate potential quality problems. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Performing audit of quality requirements and the results from quality control measurement to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are sued is the definition for Perform Quality Assurance process. Other choices in this question are related to other Quality Management processes, including plan Quality, Perform Quality Control, and definition of Quality Management in general. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

The planned degree of quality that performing organization is trying to achieve. This is another ranges of standard deviation that used in statistics. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation] [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

"Perform measurements, identify and address problems of compliance with required quality of project or product" - is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram is a graphical representation of Cause Effect analysis. This tool helps to identify and analyze the root causes of problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

"Performing project and product quality measurements, documenting and distributing results according to quality management plan" is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

"Inspecting the work during its execution rather than after completion" - is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Performs Quality Assurance is the process of Quality Management that performs auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements. This process ensures that appropriate quality standards and procedures are used on the project. [1 - 8.2 Performs Quality Assurance]

Quality Management Plan is an output of the Plan Quality process, not input. Other choices are inputs. [1 - 8.1.1 Plan Quality: Inputs]

Comparing actual and planned project practices to those of comparable projects to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring performance.. Benchmarking should be used during Plan Quality process to determine the number and type of tests and their impact on Cost of Quality. Other choices are related to Design of Experiments technique.

All listed here information is useful. [1 - 8.3 Perform Quality Control]

Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram is a graphical representation of Cause Effect analysis. This tool helps to identify and analyze the root causes of problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

The Degree is a level of compliance with the requirements, while Grade is a level assigned to the product or service that meets certain set of technical characteristics. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Quality Metric is an output of the Plan Quality process, not input. Other choices are inputs. [1 - 8.1.1 Plan Quality: Inputs]

Each Quality Management process occurs at least once in the project or phase. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Each process can involve efforts from one or more people or groups of people, based on the project requirements.

Success requires the participation of all members of the project team, but remains the responsibility of management to provide the resources needed to succeed. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

All listed but not limited to choices are legitimate for Quality Metrics. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 280; 1 - 8.1.3 Plan Quality: Outputs]

Upper and Lower Level Control Limits describe the limited range of measurements of a process that is acceptable on the project. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Specification Limits are those specified by customer, can can appeared outside of Control Chart that setup by standards of the performing organization. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 277; 1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

All choices are right. All listed here are processes of Quality Management. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Monitoring and controlling may have positive influence on the project and product quality. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Project manager is reproducible for creation of new standards and procedures to be used on the project. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Histogram is a graphical presentation in form of bars or columns and organized with no specific order. In Quality Management histograms are used for visual presentation of priorities of problems, and other needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 284; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Project team executes measurements procedures for both project and product. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Stakeholder Register and Responsibility Assignment Matrix require update by Plan Quality process. [1 - 8.1.3 Plan Quality: Outputs]

Statistical reference that excludes two or more competitive events happen concurrently. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 282; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Stakeholders Register identifies stakeholders with particular interests related to Quality. [1 - 8.1.1 Plan Quality: Inputs]

DOE uses statistical techniques of changing all the important parameters rather than one at the time. Analysis of experimental data should provide the optimal conditions for the product or process, highlights the factors that influence results, and discover the presence of interactions and synergy among the factors. DOE should be used during Plan Quality process to determine the number and type of tests and their impact on Cost of Quality. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Marginal Analysis is resulting a cost required to gain optimal benefits or revenue from improving quality. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.2.3 Perform Quality Assurance: Outputs]

All choices describe the Out of Control situation. Each is indication of inconsistency and unpredictability. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 277; 1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Project manager is reproducible for integration of Quality Management with the project. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

The concept of data point, of Rule of Seven, that requires investigation to determine the cause of the variation. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 278; 1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

In statistics and survey methodology, Sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. Two advantages of sampling are that the cost is lower and data collection is faster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28statistics%29 [1 - 8.1.2.6 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Performing specific measurements for quality of project management and project's product or services - this is a process of Control Quality rather than Plan Quality. Other choices describe the actions, but not limited to, project manager needs to follow to ensure quality of the project and product or service. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Integrated change control evaluates all change requests (CR) on the project. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Project team determines what work to be done to meet quality requirements. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Rule of thumb or heuristic that refers to a series of seven values that belong to whether upper or lower side of the Mean, which is nonrandom. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 277; 1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

A Run Chart, also known as a run-sequence plot is a graph that displays observed data in a time sequence. Often, the data displayed represent some aspect of the output or performance of a manufacturing or other business process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [1 - 8.3.2.6 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Performing the audit the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurement to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are sued is the definition for Perform Quality Assurance process. Other choices in this question are related to other Quality Management processes, including plan Quality, Perform Quality Assurance, and definition of Quality Management in general. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

integrates via Quality Management processes are integrated via planning, executing, monitoring and controlling. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Scope statement may describe technical details that reflect in quality as well as define acceptance criteria that have influence to costs, quality and schedule. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

Quality management plan, and process improvement plan are needed to Preform Quality Assurance. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

Middle or average values of the range for process acceptable variables draws a Mean Line in the Control Chart. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 277; 1 - 8.3.2 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Probability can be defined as an extent of possibility of occurrence. Usually expressed as a ratio of 1 to the extent that is less or equal to 1. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 282; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.1.3 Plan Quality: Outputs]

It is better to plan quality and preventing problems rather than inspecting and fixing the problem. There is not enough information what is less or more expensive preventing or fixing; although, it is assumed that fixing is usually more expensive. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Quality metrics and quality checklists are the outputs of Plan Quality process; other listed documents are inputs. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]

The degree to which the project fulfills requirements. It is important to understand that quality is not a virtual but described in the requirements, so quality should be measured against the accepted requirements. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Monitoring and controlling may have positive influence on the project and product quality. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

In probability theory, the normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a continuous probability distribution, defined on the entire real line, that has a bell-shaped probability density function, known as the Gaussian function or informally as the bell curve. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution] [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Perform Quality Control is the measuring actual results, identifying trends, causes, and recommending corrective and preventive actions. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 282; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

Cause and Effect Diagrams are usually used with brainstorming to graphically display the relations between causes and effects of the problems. In other words they called Fishbone or Ishikawa diagrams. Such techniques are effectively used for analysis of risks, quality issues and other purposes. [1 - 8.3.2 Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Perform Quality Assurance can be provided by the QA department, management of the performing organization, customer, sponsor or stakeholder. [1 - 8.2 Performs Quality Assurance]

A scatter plot or scattergraph is a type of mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data. The data is displayed as a collection of points, each having the value of one variable determining the position on the horizontal axis and the value of the other variable determining the position on the vertical axis. This kind of plot is also called a scatter chart, scattergram, scatter diagram or scatter graph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Basic_Tools_of_Quality [1 - 8.3.2.7 Perform Quality Control: Tools and Techniques]

Control Charts are used to determine if a process is stable or has predictable performance. [1 - 8.1.2 Plan Quality: Tools and Techniques]

Project manager and project management team are responsible for quality matters of the project and responsible to identify and coordinate the quality metrics, and deliver both Degree and Grade of the Quality; stakeholders provide quality requirements. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Planing, performing, checking and following (Plan-Do-Check-Act) is the cycle defined basis for quality improvement designed by Shewhart and modified by W. Edward Deming. Such performing organizations as TQN and Six Sigma address the Continuous Improvement processes. Process improvement models also supported by Malcolm Baldrige, Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3), and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). [1 - 8. Quality Management]

All choices have sense but the right one better describes the purpose of Perform Quality Control process. [1 - 8.3 Perform Quality Control]

All choices are right. [1 - 8 Quality Management]

Statistical Independence is a type of relationship when a probability of one event does not affect probability of another event. [2 - 8. Quality Management, Page 283; 1 - 8.3.1 Perform Quality Control]

All choices are right. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

Precision is a degree of quality, while accuracy is the degree of actually measured values. Precision determines repeatability of measured values that clustered to reach scatter, while accuracy reflects techniques that used to reflect real values. [1 - 8. Quality Management]

Design of Experiments is a statistical method that used in Plan Quality process; other choices are used in Perform Quality Assurance process. [1 - 8.2.1 Perform Quality Assurance: Inputs]

Benchmarking was use to identify more effective procedures while Plan Quality process. [1 - 8.1.1 Plan Quality]

Quality management plan, quality metrics, quality checklists, process improvement plan, and project document updates are outputs of Plan Quality process; other choices are inputs to this process. [1 - 8.1.3 Plan Quality: Outputs]

Wrong choices provide right definitions. [1 - 8.1 Plan Quality]