QA/QC from Mechanical Perspective
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QA/QC from Mechanical Perspective Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
You Will Learn How To:
- Implement effective Mechanical project quality management best practices
- Apply proven analysis techniques to identify stakeholder quality expectations and refine project scope
- Leverage industry standard templates to create a project Quality Management Plan (QMP)
- Generate a quality assurance task list that incorporates project, product and process quality
- Transform quality assurance recommendations into corrective and improvement actions
- Design and implement quality gates throughout the project and product life cycles
- Assessing your project quality management skills
- Performing an analysis of the stakeholders' quality expectations
- Developing the project scope statement
- Incorporating the scope statement into the QMP
- Composing the major elements of the QMP using co-creation techniques
- Designing and specifying Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) Gates
- Practicing quality assurance and quality control tool selection
- Analyzing and responding to quality assurance reports
- Facilitating root-cause analysis of nonconformance
- Deploying QMP concepts on a simulated project
Who Should Attend?
Mechanical managers and others who want to ensure consistent quality in their projects.
Course Outlines:
Overview of Quality Management Skills
- Determining your current quality management knowledge
- Elevating personal awareness of project quality management
Identifying Project Quality Expectations
Discovering stakeholder quality needs
- Eliciting and specifying quality requirements
- Analyzing and validating stakeholders' quality requirements
- Finalizing stakeholders' quality expectations
Identifying overall project scope
- Capturing initial project objectives and deliverables
- Categorizing stakeholders' expectations, needs and wants
- Developing a project scope statement
Consolidating project quality requirements
- Balancing the project, product and process quality requirements and their priorities
- Refining the project scope statement
Developing a Project Quality Management Plan (QMP)
Reviewing standards and best practices
- PMI
- PRINCE2®
- ISO
- CMMI
Balancing project, product and process quality constraints
- Reconciling project, product and process quality requirements
- Detailing project quality activities, roles and responsibilities
The key components of an effective QMP
- Stakeholders' quality expectations and requirements
- Acceptance criteria
- Relevant standards
- Quality responsibilities
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Quality Control (QC)
- Supporting quality tools and techniques
Establishing Quality Assurance (QA) Strategies
Matching QA techniques to the project life cycle
- Specifying mandatory and optional QA Gates
- Selecting appropriate tools and techniques to support QA gates
- Acting upon observations, deviations and nonconformance
Incorporating QA tasks into the QMP
- Generating quality assurance task list
- Estimating the required effort and resources
- Enhancing the QMP using CMMI PPQA process area
Implementing Quality Assurance
Reviewing the quality assurance reports
- Performing root cause analysis for nonconformance and deviations
- Practicing the use of the Ishikawa/Fishbone diagram for conducting root-cause analysis
- Planning corrective actions
- Leveraging feedback to improve processes
Developing corrective actions
- Estimating time and resources to address deficiencies
- Incorporating changes into the project plan
Invoking corrective procedures
- Raising change requests as appropriate
- Identifying improvement opportunities
- Updating the organizational processes
- Ensuring continuous quality improvement
Designing Project Quality Control (QC) Strategies
Specifying QC Gates
- Specifying and designing QC Gates based on the product development life cycle phases
- Inputs
- Participants