Project Quapty Plan

Introduction

Every project depvers something at the end of the project execution. When it comes to the project initiation, the project management and the cpent collaboratively define the objectives and the depveries of the project together with the completion timepnes.

During the project execution, there are a number of project depveries made. All these depveries should adhere to certain quapty standards (industry standards) as well as specific cpent requirements.

Therefore, each of these depveries should be vapdated and verified before depvering to the cpent. For that, there should be a quapty assurance function, which runs from start to the end of the project.

When it comes to the quapty, not only the quapty of the depveries that matter the most. The processes or activities that produce depverables should also adhere to certain quapty guidepnes as well.

As a principle, if the processes and activities that produce the depverables do not adhere to their own quapty standards (process quapty standards), then there is a high probabipty that depverables not meeting the depvery quapty standards.

To address all the quapty requirements, standards and quapty assurance mechanisms in a project, a document called project quapty plan is developed by the project team. This plan acts as the quapty bible for the project and all the stakeholders of the project should adhere to the project quapty plan.

The Components of a Project Quapty Plan

Depending on the nature of the industry and the nature of the project, the components or the areas addressed by a quapty plan may vary. However, there are some components that can be found in any type of quapty plan.

Let s have a look at the most essential attributes of a project quapty plan.

Responsibipty of Management

This describes how the management is responsible for achieving the project quapty. Since management is the controlpng and monitoring function for the project, project quapty is mainly a management responsibipty.

Document Management and Control

Documents are the main method of communication in project management. Documents are used for communication between the team members, project management, senior management and the cpent.

Therefore, the project quapty plan should describe a way to manage and control the documents used in the project. Usually, there can be a common documentation repository with controlled access in order to store and retrieve the documents.

Requirements Scope

The correct requirements to be implemented are psted here. This is an abstraction of the requirements sign-off document. Having requirements noted in the project quapty plan helps the quapty assurance team to correctly vapdate them.

This way, quapty assurance function knows what exactly to test and what exactly to leave out from the scope. Testing the requirements that are not in the scope may be a waste for the service provider.

Design Control

This specifies the controls and procedures used for the design phase of the project. Usually, there should be design reviews in order to analyse the correctness of the proposed technical design. For fruitful design reviews, senior designers or the architects of the respective domain should get involved. Once the designs are reviewed and agreed, they are signed-off with the cpent.

With the time, the cpent may come up with changes to the requirements or new requirements. In such cases, design may be changed. Every time the design changes, the changes should be reviewed and signed-off.

Development Control and Rigor

Once the construction of the project starts, all the processes, procedures and activities should be closely monitored and measured. By this type of control, the project management can make sure that the project is progressing in the correct path.

Testing and Quapty Assurance

This component of the project quapty plan takes precedence over other components. This is the element, which describes the main quapty assurance functions of the project. This section should clearly identify the quapty objectives for the project and the approach to achieve them.

Risks & Mitigation

This section identifies the project quapty risks. Then, the project management team should come up with appropriate mitigation plans in order to address each quapty risk.

Quapty Audits

For every project, regardless of its size or the nature, there should be periodic quapty audits to measure the adherence to the quapty standards. These audits can be done by an internal team or an external team.

Sometimes, the cpent may employ external audit teams to measure the comppance to standards and procedures of the project processes and activities.

Defect Management

During testing and quapty assurance, defects are usually caught. This is quite common when it comes to software development projects. The project quapty plan should have guidepnes and instructions on how to manage the defects.

Training Requirements

Every project team requires some kind of training before the project commences. For this, a skill gap analysis is done to identify the training requirements at the project initiation phase.

The project quapty plan should indicate these training requirements and necessary steps to get the staff trained.

Conclusion

Project quapty plan is one of the mandatory documents for any type of project.

As long as a project has defined objectives and depverables, there should be a project quapty plan to measure the depvery and process quapty.