Ensure Project Quality
Your partner in quality and risk management
What is your group Chief Engineer?
It is important to understand this person/group expectations.
What is the sponsor?
Popular resource used by project managers at APL to receive daily or weekly emails with funding balance, daily burn-rate, and hours charged.
What is MINK?
This is what to watch in project status. (Provide two)
What is ..
Assess whether missed internal milestones can be recovered from
Identify missed milestones that will impact sponsor deliverables
Look for opportunities to help the team achieve milestones
Create a sense of urgency
Identify potential staff performance issues
This risk related to a quality deliverable is tracked by the PjM
What is Product Development Risk?
These two partners help create a quick estimate for sponsor when requested.
What is program manager and financial managers?
These two reports can be used to compare, by individual name, what was planned vs. what was actually charged
What is ADDIT & AOSBAT?
These are reasons staff may be removed from a project
What is staff may leave a project and PjM may decide to transition staff off of a project?
An AOS statement where staff members are committed to delivering products with quality appropriate to the desired mission outcome
What is The AOS Quality Vision?
It is important to do this when sponsors request a change in direction.
What is documentation?
It is important update your resource plan when this happens.
What is significant changes to any staff LOE or time frame that staff are needed on the project changes?
Project managers must ensure that the team is complying with the following project requirements. (Name 3)
Security
Public release
Export compliance
Travel approvals
Adherence of staff to their allocated LOE
Configuration management and sharing of files
Property protocols and software licensing
NDAs and Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCIs)
AOS required quality reviews. Name two.
What is
Project Kickoff Review
Technical Effort Kickoff Review
Technical Quality Reviews
Technical SME Reviews (also called Technical Peer Reviews)
Project Milestone Reviews
This is a type of communication to give to team members when giving encouragement and improvement
What is feedback?
This is important to determine when a staff member is underspending on their allocation.
What is ..
Are they competing there assigned work?
OR
Do they plan to stay at the reduced level?
This can be a potential risk category. (Name two)
What is
Staff
Funding
Schedule
Technical risk
Policies and procedures
Sponsor related
Continuation of project work
Availability of resources
Deliverables
Social and perception
A risk is stated in terms of these two estimates
What are likelihood and consequences?
Do this when a sponsor requests change in direction.
What is make sure the change is supported in the SOW and get it in writing.
This is the "Most Deadly Sin"
What is overspending a budget?
This occurs after the Execute, Monitor and Control phase of Project Management
What is the Closeout phase?