What is the internal procurement processes of the firm?
100
Fixed-Price Contracts
What is a type of contract that does not depend on time and/or resources?
100
Milk and Cookies
What is food left out for Santa?
100
Single Sampling, Double Sampling and Multiple Sampling
What are the three most commonly used sample plans?
100
Tasks, Resources, Timing & Responsibility
What are the major sets of variables for organizing and managing a project?
200
December 25th
What is Christmas Day?
200
Requires contractors to plan ahead to keep cost down
What is cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts?
200
Data Tables and Pareto Analysis
What are two quality tools used for data identification?
200
Overproduction, waiting, transportation, processing, stocks, motion and making defective products
What are the seven forms of waste?
200
You'll Shoot Your Eye Out
What is the quote from A Christmas Story?
300
Feasible Procurement Alternatives
What is Make vs. Buy Decision?
300
Requires contractors to estimate target costs when contracts are made
What is fixed price contracts?
300
Quality Policy, Quality Objectives, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Audit and Quality Program Plan
What are the quality management concepts?
300
CP > 1.33
What is the process capability value for a process that is within its limits?
300
Time, Available Man-Power and Cashflow
What are constraints on the critical path of a project?
400
Factors Include:
Compromise ability, Adaptability and Good faith
What is negotiation?
400
Not responsible for managing contractors
What is the contract administrator?
400
Customer and Market Focus, Human Resource Development and Management and Strategic Planning
What is the criteria used to determine a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award?
400
Elf on a Shelf
Who watches over kids and tells Santa if they have been good or bad?
400
Forms, Checklists, General Management Guidelines, Policies and Procedures
What are the principal procedural categories?
500
Acquisition of goods and services
What is procurement?
500
Red-nosed reindeer
Who is Rudolph?
500
1. Quality is internally focused vs. Quality is customer focused
2. Increased quality will increase project costs vs. Improved quality saves money and increases business
3. Quality occurs during project execution vs. Quality occurs at project initiation and must be planned for within the project
What is the changing views of quality?
500
Customer Focus, Obsession with Quality, Effective Work Structure, Control yet Freedom, Unity of Purpose, Process Defect Identification, Teamwork, Education and Training
What are the principles of quality leadership?
500
Overhead Burden, Startup Delays and stifled creativity
What are reason management management would support a formal project management system?