#6 Maintain Project Quality with Incremental Measures and Team Focus

One of the most difficult tasks of any project is measuring and managing project quality. Most successful Project Leaders faithfully hold to the adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” They also realize that when they employ incremental measures throughout the project lifecycle and maintain a team-wide focus on building quality into their project performance as well as into their products and services, they get the best results.

• Quality is the totality of characteristics and features of a product, service or performance that affects its ability to satisfy the stated or inferred needs. 
• Of course, measuring quality performance and quality outcomes can be achieved with various techniques: including milestones, weighted steps, value of work done, physical percent complete, earned value and other measures. You should carefully choose which technique is the best fit for the project.
• Project quality and performance can be tracked by any appropriate measure – cost, hours, quantities, schedule, percent complete and other measures. 
• Strategically establishing incremental milestones will allow you and your team to more closely monitor both project performance and quality. Early detection of performance issues could minimize the need for major corrective actions later.
• Most successful Project Leaders know that it is difficult to effectively measure the quality of results during the project execution. Therefore, they make ...Read More.