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Quality Management for Business Success Quality Management for Business Success
-by Sunil Sharma
During the last few decades, many quality management programs have delivered real benefits to many organizations across the world in a number of areas including cost control, process improvement, customer retention and product development. That is why organizations have embraced the concept of quality management as a key business enabler and a critical success factor.
Managing for Quality: It’s Not as Hard as Everyone Makes OutManaging for Quality: It’s Not as Hard as Everyone Makes Out
-by Mark Mullaly, PMP
 Is all hope lost for managing quality on projects? Should we just throw in the towel, or is there a better way of being able to measure and manage quality?
How to Botch Your Role in a QA Initiative (Part 2)How to Botch Your Role in a QA Initiative (Part 2)
-by Joe Wynne
 It’s so easy for you to fail in your role as a project manager during a quality assurance initiative. Let us continue to count the ways…
When in Rome, Japan...When in Rome, Japan...
-by Mike Donoghue
 What was once considered a place of inexpensive labor and insufficient standards is now regarded as an institution of ingenuity, hard work and the highest quality in the world.
Total Quality - by Sunil Sharma
How to Botch Your Role in a QA Initiative (Part 1) - by Joe Wynne
Quality Control - by Bob Weinstein
Brainstorming Quality - by Andrew Makar, PMP
Ah, But Your Software Quality Stinks - by Sunil Sharma
Managing Quality and the Contracted Supplier - by Andrew Makar, PMP
Building a Framework for Quality - by Michael R. Wood
Quantifying Quality - by Mike Donoghue
Outsourcing Quality Management: Do’s and Don’ts - by George Najm and Andrew Makar, PMP
Ensuring Quality in the Brave New World of SOA - by Vijay Sankaran


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