Most Important Input Is to Resolving Issues

Most important input is to resolving issues

Main goal for controlling communications in a project

The goal of any communication planning is to establish communication with stakeholders that manage their perceptions of the project – which means supporting and championing the project.

Key benefit of cost benefit analysis

        Cost-benefit Analysis –analysis of the trade-offs between less rework, higher productivity, lower cost, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. A key benefit is less rework

Quality planning

        Process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance•
Quality = the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements

        As a result of this planning, we create–Quality checklists –a structured tool, usually component-specific, used to verify that a set of required steps has been performed–

Quality Management Plan –describes how the project management team will enforce performing the organization’s quality policy (see the template on eLearn)–

Quality Metrics –describes a project or product attribute and how the quality process will measure it. Examples: on-time performance, budget control, defect frequency, failure rate, availability, reliability, and test coverage

Some Tools for Quality Planning –Cost-benefit Analysis –analysis of the trade-offs between less rework, higher productivity, lower cost, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. A key benefit is less rework.–

Benchmarking–provides a basis for measuring performance.–

Design of Experiments –helps optimize variables to achieve desirable performance at reasonable costs.–

Cost of Quality (COQ) –method of determining the costs incurred to ensure quality

Integrated change control

Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of reviewing all change requests; approving changes and managing changes to deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan; and communicating their disposition.

Change Requests (CRs) –a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline. When issues are found while project work is being performed, CRs can be submitted. May modify.....

–project policies or procedures,

–project or product scope,

 –project cost or budget,

–Project schedule,

–Or, the quality of the project or product results

Change Requests (continued)•CRs can cover preventive or corrective actions to stall negative impacts later. •Any stakeholder may request a change. CRs can be initiated from inside or outside the project and they can be optional or legally / contractually mandated.•CRs may include:

–Corrective action –realigns the performance of the project with the Project Management Plan