PMP exam requires you to be familiar with quality approaches for continuous improvement. These slide gives you overview on quality proprietary and non propriety approaches with brief information that is needed from exam point of view.
Based on PMBOK 5, contributed by contributor of PMBOK 5th edition.
2. Quality Proprietary Approaches
• Developed 14 steps to Quality management
• Developed PDCA cycle i.e. Plan, Do, Check, Act1- Edward Deming
• Developed 80/20 principle
• Defined quality as " fitness for use"
• Advocated top management involvement
2- Joseph Juran
• Defined Quality as " conformance to requirements"
• Zero Defect Concept
• Prevention over Inspection
3-Philip Crosby
* Marginal Analysis: while doing cost & benefit analysis for cost of quality , always look for a point where benefit received is more or at least equal
to cost of quality.
3. Quality Non-Proprietary Approaches
• Total Quality Management
• Encourages employee & organization to find ways to improve
quality of business practices and products.
1- TQM
• It represents level of quality for project or product
• At 6 sigma, 1.5 out of 1M cars will have a problem
• At 3 sigma, only 2700 out of 1M cars will have a problem
• 3Sigma is like 3SD (Standard Deviation) and 6Sigma like 6SD.
2- SIX SIGMA
• Failure mode and effect analysis
• An analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in
every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect
on the reliability of that component
3- FMEA
Continued..
4. Quality Non-Proprietary Approaches
• Japanese Technique for continuous improvement
• Continuously looking for small improvements in quality.4- KAIZEN
• Focus on process improvement
• With Emphasis on eliminating on 7 types of wastes5- LEAN Six Sigma
• Process improvement model for performance excellence
6- MALCOLM
Baldrige
• Organizational project management maturity model, looking to
improve project management practices in the organization7- OPM3
• Capability Maturity Model Integrated
• Used in software industry
• Focus on continuous improvement
8- CMMI
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