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1932159487 978-1932159486 June 29, 2005
Winner of the 2006 Cleland Award for Literature from Project Management Institute (PMI).

Quality is a much mentioned but little employed component of project success. There are many quality books, tools, and training courses on the market oriented toward the manufacturing domain, yet they provide little information of relevance to project managers who work with intellectual processes more than the action details of production. So where does a project manager go for guidance on integrating the quality demanded in project implementation? Right here!

Project Quality Management by Kenneth Rose offers project managers a specific, succinct, step-by-step project quality management process not found anywhere else. It gives you an immediate hands-on capability to improve project implementation and customer satisfaction in any project domain and will help maintain cost and schedule constraints to ensure a quality project. This user-friendly guide presents tools and techniques that implement the general methods defined in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge-Third Edition (PMBOK) published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and augments those methods with more detailed, hands-on procedures that have been proven through actual practice.

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-Provides project managers an explicit step-by-step quality management process, along with a coherent set of quality tools organized and explained according to their application within this process that can be applied immediately in any project context
-Introduces a Wheel of Quality that codifies in one complete image the contributing elements of contemporary quality management
-Establishes a new quality tool, the pillar diagram, that provides a needed capability to identify root causes of undesirable effects
-Includes a final walk-through of a practical exercise relevant to many project domains, which will help readers gain experience using the tools and techniques of this project quality management process before applying them to their own project work

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About the Author

Kenneth H. Rose, PMP, has more than 35 years of hands-on experience in high technology development and project management and in the development and implementation of quality improvement programs, innovative performance measurement procedures, and strategic plans. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Manager and past chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association robotics division.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: J. Ross Publishing (June 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932159487
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932159486
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Project Managers, April 3, 2007
This review is from: Project Quality Management: Why, What and How (Paperback)
Kenneth H. Rose, PMP, has provided the project management world with a great book, Project Quality Management: Why, What and How. When I review books I read the material with a few principles in mind, including Technical Accuracy, Usefulness, Clarity, Concise, and Importance of the material. This book meets or exceeds these principles.

The book is set up in four sections: Quality Foundations, Quality Management, Tools for Managing Project Quality, and Quality in Practice. Starting with Quality Foundations, Kenneth takes the reader through definitions, the history of the quality movement, and introduces the pioneers of Quality. This section is presented in a technically accurate, clear and concise manner. The material gives the reader an understanding without being too deep to be boring or over done.

In the second section, Quality Management, Kenneth starts introducing the elements of the PMBOK, PMI's Project Management Book of Knowledge, the book most project managers use to plan & execute projects. To assist in using the tools, beginning in this section, Kenneth provides a case study in the Appendix that the reader uses to apply the information. The liberal use of illustrations, charts and graphs adds to the understanding of the material, and continues the accurate, clear and concise way the entire book is written. This section will be interesting to project managers not familiar with the PMBOK and the tools they may not be aware exist.

Starting in the final chapter of the Quality Management section and through the third section, Tools for Managing Project Quality, Kenneth introduces a detailed description and use of the tools of quality supplied by the pioneers of Quality as it relates to project work. In this section the information from the previous two sections is brought together very clearly to assist in actual use.

In the final section, Quality in Practice, W. Edward Deming's (one of those pioneers) Red Bead experiment is presented. The experiment is presented as a practical experiment for your team to use to confirm their new or increased knowledge before applying it to a real project. Side note: sounds like a great team building exercise.

As for the importance of the text, absolutely! It is the only book I know of written for the project management community about Project Quality Management with the PMBOK interwoven. This book could be used as a training tool or reference tool for students, novice or veteran project managers.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A needed perspective on quality, July 25, 2006
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Books on project quality are often narrowly focused - on Six Sigma, software testing, or statistical process control, for example. For anyone trying to apply the Project Management Institute's quality approach (admittedly rather limited) to a project, without getting bogged down in test scripts, the lack of a good, general-purpose project quality book has been a problem.

This book addresses the gap between domain-specific quality processes and general project quality. After providing an overview of the quality movement and key definitions of quality, the book outlines a step-by-step process for quality planning, quality assurance and quality control. The steps are specific enough to provide a quality framework, while remaining general enough that any tools an organization currently has can be slotted into that framework.

Two tools from the book that I particularly like:
1. The Wheel of Quality, which illustrates the different elements of a quality system and their interrelationships.
2. The L-shaped matrix, which can be used to prioritize customers and requirements.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Trying to enhance project quality? Get this book!, September 1, 2007
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I have read a lot of project management books. Some good. Some bad. This one falls a few notches above "good"--somewhere in the "excellent" to "great" range. I have not, to date, seen such a comprehensive, practical guide to project quality management. There are lots of quality management books out there. The problem is that not many of them have a focus on PROJECTS. This book fills the gap. Great discussion, great examples, great practical guidance for how to actually implement quality on projects. I keep this book on my bookshelf as a good, practical reference.
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managing project quality, contract processing time, punishing honest mistakes, pillar diagram, senior management skills, code number errors, regulatory compliant, random cause variation, cumulative percentage curve, red bead experiment, hindering forces, project quality management, quality journey, contracting office, monthly status reports, contemporary quality, affinity diagram, compliance matrix, helping forces, indented list, special cause variation, run chart, check sheet, send managers, project management methodology
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Resource Center, Row Decimal, Web Added Value, Total Value Access, Edwards Deming, Project Management Institute, Out of the Crisis, The Wheel of Quality, Total Figure, Walter Shewhart, Dakota Wireless Network, Hardware Dev Div, Juran's Quality Handbook, Newtown Square, Third Edition, Full Analytical Criteria Method, New York, Plan Figure, Project Management Body of Knowledge, State of Dakota View, Total Value State of Dakota
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