Chapter 8: Project Quality Management
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. Only in-house auditors can perform quality audits.
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A run chart is a bar graph that depicts data points and their order of occurrence.
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Customer requirements are an important aspect of the quality planning process.
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Frameworks for helping organizations improve their processes and system are called Six Sigma charts.
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In TQC, product quality is more important than production rates, and workers are allowed to stop production whenever a quality problem occurs.
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Products that are accepted by project stakeholders are considered to be validated deliverables.
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Project managers are ultimately responsible for quality management on their projects.
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Reliability is the ability of a product or service to perform as expected under deviant conditions.
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DeMarco and Lister's study on organizations and productivity found direct correlations between productivity and programming language, years of experience, and salary.
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Gantt charts cannot be used to aid project quality management.
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Testing as a stage is important only at the end of an information technology product development.
True
The Six Sigma approach works best for a project where a quality problem is identified between the current and desired performance.
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The design of experiments technique cannot be applied to project management issues such as cost and schedule trade-offs.
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Using Six Sigma principles is an organization-wide commitment and all employees must embrace its principles.
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Validated changes and validated deliverables are the outputs of the quality assurance process.
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Integration testing involves testing of each individual component to ensure that it is as defect-free as possible.
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The quality assurance process involves taking responsibility for quality throughout the project's life cycle.
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The term sigma means median.
