Individual Assignment (suggested level of effort: 3 hours)

Project Quality Management (100 points)

Suburban Homes Construction Project Quality Management Plan (QMP) 

Prepare a quality management plan using the elements described in the PMBOK 6e (Section 8.1.3.1) for the Suburban Homes Construction Project.

Content (90 points) Over the course the semester you’ve become familiar with the project and as part of the overall project management plan, a quality management plan is needed to communicate how quality will be met to the satisfaction of each stakeholder involved in a typical residential construction project.

You should perform research on quality standards associated with residential construction to determine applicable standards.  At least four (4) quality objectives associated with the project should be defined.

As part of the section on quality tools, include a separate appendix with at least three (3) quality tools that will be used as a part of the project.  These can be drawn from: 1) flow charts, 2) check sheets, 3) Pareto diagrams, 4) histograms, 5) control charts, 6) scatter diagrams, 7) affinity diagrams, 8) process decision programs charts, 9) interrelationship digraphs, 10) tree diagrams, 11) prioritization matrices, 12) activity network diagrams, 13) matrix diagrams, 14) inspections, and 15) statistical sampling.

Last, about 1/3 of the plan should be devoted to major procedures relevant for the project for dealing with non-conformance, corrective actions procedures, and continuous improvement procedures.

If information needed to complete a QMP is not explicitly stated in the scenario description or other project artifacts you’ve created or collected for this scenario in the past units, then develop (make-up) the information you need to complete the plan.  Use tables and illustrations as needed to convey information.

The plan (excluding the separate appendix) should be approximately 4 to 5 pages. 

Your Instructor will use Turn-it-in to ensure your paper is authentic work.  To avoid plagiarism, see the course home page for more information and use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to learn how to paraphrase, summarize and cite the references you use in all academic writing assignments.

Mechanics (10 points)  It is expected that each part of this assignment have excellent mechanics (presentation, grammar and spelling) and exhibit the quality of work capable of a group of graduate students and working professionals. All sections of the document submitted must be readable at 100% magnification.  Include any resources used in an APA formatted reference section.

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 Post By Amol:

Currently, I am involved in a project for a banking client where they are modifying their existing IT technology infrastructure with new tooling from market by working with vendors from Amazon and Azure Cloud focusing more on Automation. At the same time, they are also making changes to their legacy application which will streamline existing Web application with an intuitive look, that will further strengthen their relationships with outer customers by facilitating ease-of-use for their daily activities and bring about cross-sell opportunities for other products and services.  It will also result in improved customer satisfaction for a company. The current payments product which was implemented in 2007 is outdated, does not meet customer expectations and lags the competition in terms of ease of use.

The scope of the project is to apply the concepts of Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery, Continuous improvements, Six-Sigma and Release Management so that software can be easy to compile, integrate, test and produce a quick deployment in sandbox, development, QA and production environment.

Continuous Integration will allow us to catch issues at earlier stage in sandbox environment and will reduce integration problem allowing us to deliver new updates and products at much faster rate. Once everything is working according to expected, application is put toward stress environment to check its fatigue. By implementing the automation from code level to infrastructure level, it has become very easy for us to track the issue at earlier stages and deliver the updates to software on time. 

During the process of Continuous integration, there were many teams whom we relied upon like Database Administrator, Build Engineer, Developer, Test Engineer, DynaTrace Engineer, Monitoring team, Server engineer and Security team. So, making sure that everybody’s services are utilized during a given time was little hectic as most of them were involved in more than three to four projects, so managing all was little a painful task for Project Manager. But once issues were debugged, we used to document it as a lesson learned, so that we may not spent more time in future on the same issue.

If I must start this project again, I will make sure that resources who will work on Continuous Integration project will be belonging to one team, rather than pulling resources from different team when need arises. All the road maps and metrics are properly designed by taking into consideration the challenges and mitigating the risks.

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 Why is establishing problem ownership so important in the decision-making process?  

Part 1: Think about how to build teams in terms of designing the task, selecting the people, and then, managing their relationships. How would compose a team for completing a course/work project in terms of the three dimensions listed above. How would you incorporate diversity in designing a team?

Part 2: Discuss team identity. Why do you feel attached to certain groups and teams but not to others?