This unit covers the essential elements of quality management, and how they should be applied to a programme or project

To help you learn how to:

1. Establish a quality aware culture for a programme or project
   
2. Apply quality management principles and techniques on a programme or project
3. Demonstrate that quality has been achieved on a programme or project

Following completion of this unit, you will know how to:

1. Integrate a programme or project into an existing corporate Quality Management System
2. Create a programme or project quality plan and establish a quality management plan for a specific programme or project
3. Achieve programme or project deliverables to agreed quality standards

Quality awareness

• the context and uses of a corporate Quality Management System (QMS)
  
• how programmes and projects interface with corporate QMS
  
• the purpose of quality management, and the relationship between quality assurance, quality planning and quality control
  
• the need for effective quality management on programmes or projects

Quality Management Discipline

• how the application of effective quality processes and procedures results in the achievement of quality within a programme or project
  
• which quality control methods are available and what their strengths and weaknesses are