Project Management Principles: Quality Control Measures and Time Management Techniques

This article discusses the importance of quality control measures in project management and how they can improve project process, outputs, and objectives. It also compares and contrasts two different project time management techniques/tools - Schedule Network Analysis and Gantt Chart.

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Project Management Principles - Assessment Task 3
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Question
Explain how quality control measures on projects can reduce the number of defects and
inefficiencies along with improving project process, outputs and objectives?
Answer
With the implementation of the quality control measures in the project development
methodology the errors in the project can be eliminated and it can help in improvement of the
efficiency of the project. The project manager is responsible to develop the project and
implement necessary steps for the elimination of the errors in the different steps involved in
the project development process. For improvising the quality of the project different project
development methodologies can be applied and the progress of the project should be
monitored. The errors identified during the advancement of the phases of the project
development should be mitigated immediately such that the quality of the project is not
hampered and a quality project solution is delivered to the client.
Achievement of scope of the project – The goals of objectives of the project must be defined
and the requirement of the project should be clear to the development team for the
preparation of the planning of the project. The stakeholders can be involved in the
requirement analysis phase for estimating the resource, time and budget of the project. The
roles and responsibility should be assigned to each of the team member involved in the
project development process for increasing the stability and reliability of the project.
Customer Satisfaction – The application of the quality control helps in improvement of the
level of satisfaction of the customer. The project should be developed such that it can serve
the customer to fulfil their needs and attain the goals of the business. The current output of
the project should be compared with the desired output for analysing the quality of the project
and implementation of the modification that can be applied for getting the desired outcome.

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Best practice and process improving – The new technology and measures that can be
implemented for the improvement of the project and enhancing the consistency of the project
should be analysed. The quality control is also important for the accomplishment of the
different activities such as reducing the cost of the project, getting the maximum throughput
from the project ad removal of the constraint faced during the development of the project.
Enhancement of production – Different tools and techniques that can be included is identified
and proper training is provided to the user for getting the best output from the project and
aligning it to the current requirement of the user. The measures of quality control helps to
improve the productivity and thus returning more benefit to the client.
resource should be allocated for each of the activity for
Reduces reworks – The measures of quality control helps in removal of the errors from the
starting phases of the development of the project and thus reduces the chances of reworks
during the final build of the project. The needs of the customer should be identified and less
assumption should be used for the development such that it is approved by the client on the
first go.
Enhancement of the internal communication – The communication between the team
members involved in the development process of the project should not be hindered. Any
barrier in the communication should be eliminated such that each of the team member is
informed about the current progress of the project or changes that needs to be adopted in the
project.
Question
Compare and contrast any two different project time (schedule)
management techniques/tools that enable projects to be planned and managed throughout
the lifecycle.
Answer

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Schedule network analysis and the gantt chart is selected as a project management tool for
the demonstration of the activities of the project identified for the development of the project. The
gantt chart is a horizontal bar graph representing the timeline of the project. The activities involved
in the project schedule is represented using the bars and the timeline for the completion of each of
the activity is represented by the length of the bar. The interdependency of each of the activity can
be found from the gantt chart because arrows are used for connecting the bars and the information
such as start time, start to finish time, finish to start time and finish time is added with each of the
activity. The bars are the in represented in the sequential manner demonstrates the process that are
running in parallel and it is independent from the above process. The parallel activity consumes less
time for the development. There are different project man agent tools that can be used for the
creation of the gantt chart with visually attractive representation. The starting of the bar is from the
expected timeline and it end after the time span of the completion of the activity. A comparison can
be made between the actual and the planned schedule for increasing the efficiency of the project.
The network analysis schedule is created that is used for the graphical representation of the
project schedule and created for the accomplishment of the project objectives and goals during the
project management lifecycle. The project schedule network is demonstrated in a single page from
left to right and arrows are used for interconnecting the activity and creating logical relationship for
the demonstration of the working elements. The network schedule is demonstrated in chronological
order which starts from the initial stage of the project management to the final stage of project
closure consisting of all the intermediate activities involved for the development of the project. The
critical path of the project can be found form the schedule network analysis also known as network
diagram. The critical path is used for the calculation of the minimum time which is required for the
completion of the project. The network diagram is used for the representation of the activity and
interconnecting it with each other for the determination of the current progress and identification of
the dependency of the activity. It helps in figuring out the activity that are affected if any changes
are to be made in the middle of the project during the development of the project.

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