LA HABRA, CA - February 08, 2010
-- Method123 has just announced the release of a new full-featured
Quality Plan template as part of their overall Project Management Kit
product offering.
Method123's Project Management Kit provides the project manager and team with over 50
Project Management Templates.
The addition of this new Quality Plan template will definitely
strengthen this industry leading software offering from Method123.
The act of creating Quality Assurance Plans and Quality Control Plans is a critical piece of the overall
Project Management Methodology for any organization. However, it is an often-overlooked step in the
Project Planning process.
Creating
these plans at the beginning of the project enables the project manager
and team to set quality criteria for the project that will be
acceptable to the customer. These plans are put in place to set
guidelines for managing quality, how to measure and audit quality, and
how to deal with quality issues when they arise. Quality expectations
of deliverables on the project are a major input to these plans and
must be spelled out in detail so the project team knows how best to go
about meeting customer expectations and getting deliverable signoff.
"Quality
plans are often an afterthought on projects meaning when quality
questions arise, there's no plan in place on how to deal with them,"
says Jason Westland, CEO of
Online Project Management
template leader Method123 Ltd. "Every project has deliverables. The
project manager and the customer must layout how to measure quality on
those deliverables so that they can be formally accepted. Our
full-featured template will guide the project manager through the paces
of putting together these valuable plans for their projects."
Like
all the templates in their Project Management Kit, the Quality Plan
contains detailed instructions, real-life sample information to help
the user create meaningful sections of the document, and lots of tips
and helps throughout to make production of the plan a breeze.
With Method123's template, the project manager can create a Quality Plan to:
• Document the customer's requirements
• Identify the project deliverables
• Create quality goals and standards for each deliverable
• Get agreement from the customer on acceptable deliverable quality criteria
• Gain final signoff on deliverables based on the criteria in the document
"Getting
to the end of a project phase and handing a deliverable to the customer
is a major milestone. However, realizing you have no set acceptance
criteria in place for that deliverable can be a major problem," says
Westland. "I've seen projects flounder for weeks over a single
deliverable because acceptance criteria was never clearly defined."
By using Method123's
Quality Plan
template, that will never be a problem. Details on each deliverable,
the acceptance criteria specific to that deliverable, and how to handle
questions and issues with deliverable quality and acceptance is all
defined at the beginning of the project when the project manager uses
this template. Think of it as a roadmap to deliverable acceptance. Once
in place, both the project manager and the customer have the necessary
policies in place to move forward.
For information on the
Quality Plan template as well as all the templates contained in
Method123's Project Management Kit,
please visit their site at
Method123.com.