Quality Management Plan Template

This Quality Management Plan template is the roadmap for achieving the quality objectives. Generally, it provides processes for capturing quality requirements, identifying quality management activities, and defining quality control processes.

This template is developed to support a wide range of project types and sizes. Specifically, it:

• begins with a section that captures relevant project information;
• provides for the identification of project roles and responsibilities, as they pertain to project quality management;
• prompts the Project Manager to: identify the quality requirements by including the Quality Requirements Log, review benchmarked projects, conduct interviews, review relevant standards, define quality metrics, identify process quality requirements, and document the deliverables subject to quality reviews;
• prompts the project manager to calculate the monthly prevention and appraisal costs and the cost of nonconformance;
• includes a section that specifies executable quality management activities like audits, tests, and inspection;
• includes procedures for dealing with nonconformance, corrective actions, and continuous improvement;
• specifies the frequency for preparing inspection reports, test documents, and quality reports;
• provides a quality control section that includes plans for verification, inspections, audits, and test;
• identifies the work performance information that will be captured and specifies the process for initiating requests for change;
• includes places for noting assumptions, issues, and risks that are identified while planning quality management;
• provides a section for including relevant project documents for approval; and
• includes a section for quality management plan approval.

Who Creates the Quality Management Plan?

The Project Manager is responsible for developing the Quality Management Plan. Effective planning accounts for the input of various project team members, other stakeholders, and the project sponsor.

What Are the Inputs?

There are numerous inputs to the development of a Quality Management Plan, including the project charter, the requirements management plan, the risk management plan, the stakeholder engagement plan, and the scope baseline. Inputs also include various project documents like the assumptions log, requirements documentation, the risk register, and more.

How Detailed Should the Quality Management Plan Be?

The structure of the Quality Management Plan varies greatly, depending on project needs. For some projects, the Quality Management Plan is developed in great detail and becomes formally approved before the start of project work.

For other projects, this highly detailed and rigid approach to project planning would be disastrous. In these situations, the Quality Management Plan is developed more loosely and from a high-level perspective. As the project progresses, the Quality Management Plan may become more elaborate. It’s the project manager’s responsibility to consider all factors that affect the project and develop a plan that fits.

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