How do you quantitatively analysis the quality of a project
during development?
Answer Posted / v. murali krishna
There are many tools and techniques to determine the
quality of a project during development
SOme of them are
Benchmarking- Compare the project deliverables with a
prvious similar activities
Statitical Sampling: identify a set of of samples of
deliverables or activities and inspect them to check
whether they are within the acceptable variances.
Control charts, Nominal Group techniqes, Pareto technique,
fish bone analysis etc.
All these would provide Quality metrics which would help in
analysising the quality of the project.
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