As you have already learned in your Discussion Board this week, quality assurance in any project might be the most important but overlooked aspect of a project. Lack of quality management, however, can cause an entire project to fail if the final project deliverables do not meet customer expectations and standards. Implementing quality assurance throughout the project improves overall performance of tasks and minimizes the risk of nonacceptance at the end of the project. In this course, you are asked to develop a Quality Management Integration Plan that allows you to select and integrate quality management tools, models, and techniques in the overall performance of the project. You will select a project that you may have developed in a previous class or a known project in an organization to create this plan for.
Throughout this course, you will be working on developing several components of final Key Assignment. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project.
In this first Individual Project, you are asked to develop the outline of the sections that will be included in the Quality Management Integration Plan document and a draft of a proposal to submit to your instructor. The other information you will include is a high-level description of the project that you will be developing a quality implementation strategy for.
You will also be setting up the Final Key Assignment outline that you will add to each week. The combined Individual Project (IP) assignments will be your final Key Assignment deliverable.
Project Selection
The first step will be to select a project that you to develop a Quality Management Integration Plan for. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:
Nontrivial: The selected project candidate should reflect a real-life project.
Domain knowledge: You will be applying knowledge of this project to address assignments related to quality management, integration, and performance.
Create the following sections for Week 1:
Project Outline
Include a brief description of the project.
Describe the overall project deliverables.
Material can be taken from the approved proposal that you submitted to the instructor. This may serve as the draft for the proposal.
Be sure that this project is approved by the instructor.
Organizational Readiness for Quality Management
Discuss which quality systems the organization employs today.
Discuss the organization's readiness to incorporate in the selected project.
Include additional support that might be required to incorporate quality management (e.g., a knowledgeable quality champion).
Quality Systems Analysis
Discuss the pros and cons of at least 3 quality systems (e.g., ISO 9000, Six Sigma, plan-do-check-act or plan-do-study-act, capability maturity model integration [CMMI], organizational project management maturity model [OPM3], Malcolm Baldrige).
Identify which one or combination is most appropriate for this project, and discuss why.