Across Office Review
Communication, Communication, Communication
What are the 3 C's of interoffice working?
One to two weeks
What is the time it takes for a QC review and time to update the plan set for submittal?
The QAQC procedures are located on the server under this path.
What is I:\Administrative\QAQC?
What is Resources\Administrative\QAQC
This type of review of quantifiable items involves checking the assumptions, backup design material and associated design drawings to ensure that information presented is complete and free of errors.
What is a Design Computation review?
Team members review the accuracy of data and review their own work for quality before delivering to the Project Manager or Checker.
What is a Self-check?
Calendar Reminders
What is the best way to schedule QC time?
Calendar reminders
What is the best way to keep the entire team and QC reviewer informed of deadlines?
I can use this type of list to check various kinds of work.
What is a checklist?
For Maps we review these data for accuracy and adherence to existing features on land.
What is GIS?
Work products for Quality Control are divided into these two types of deliverables based on significance and scale.
What are Major and Minor?
Comment logs, PDF markups, scanned hand markups
What are QC documentation best practices?
Location to put anticipated QC dates, who is doing the review, and hours budgeted
What is the Project Workbook?
I use this table in the Project Plan tab of the Project Workbook to plan, assign, and document quality control reviews for deliverables.
What is the Quality Control Plan?
This review of design documents considers appropriate use of criteria, guidelines, best practices, and standards as well as organization, and sufficient detail.
What is a Design and/or Constructability review?
This process for QC review, updates and approvals is a useful guide to determine when a deliverable is client-ready.
What is the Quality Control Work Flow?
Weekly team trainings
What is a best practice to keep the project and team on task and schedule?
Assign different subtasks or plan sheets to consistent staff throughout project
What is an efficient way to incorporate QC comments, create a sense of ownership for work, and provide consistent review in the case of conflicting comments?
These are three Project Delivery Standards we use for QAQC at Toole Design.
What are CAD Standards, Graphic Standards, and Style Guide.
We review planning and design documents to check that these appropriate recommendations are being considered?
What is Multimodal?
What is a Multimodal Recommendation?
This person is a Senior Planner/Designer, Manager, or Director who is technically qualified to perform the work, but was not associated with the development of the deliverable. A PM who is not senior may serve this role too.
Who is the Checker?
Early, Often, Whenever Necessary
When should you communicate?
Occurs prior to QC 1 and QC 2
What is review of your own work or peer-to-peer review?
I can use part of this initial meeting to assign QC review roles.
What is an Internal Kick-off meeting?
For Writing/Report reviews we check documents for compliance with the Style Guide, presentation, spelling, grammar, graphics, cross referencing and this...
What is technical accuracy/content?
All of us, the Principal/Director, PM, Team Members, and Checker are responsible for this.
What is Quality?