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CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide

You're reading from   CompTIA Project+ Certification Guide Learn project management best practices and successfully pass the CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 exam

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534498
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashley Hunt Ashley Hunt
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the CompTIA Project+ Exam (PK0-004) 2. Project Initiation FREE CHAPTER 3. Project Roles and Responsibilities 4. Developing a Project Charter 5. Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 6. Developing a Project Schedule 7. Resource Management Planning and Communication Considerations 8. Budget and Contingency Plans for Risk 9. Monitoring and Controlling Project Work 10. Formal Project or Phase Closure and Agile Project Management 11. Assessments 12. Other Book You May Enjoy

Quality management and the cost of quality

Failure to meet quality requirements can have serious negative consequences for any or all of the project stakeholders, your schedule, and your budget. Quality is very tightly integrated with the scope of work, because both must be correct for the product, service, or result to be accepted. Therefore, it is important to make sure that requirements for quality are collected and met. Because scope and quality are so tightly integrated, it is sometimes difficult to tell them apart on an exam.

Quality is correctness, and the results are fit for use, and scope of work is the features and functions needed via requirements. Remember, we need to build the right thing (scope of work) and build the thing right (quality management).

To explain this, let’s look at something tangible. I like to use a bicycle as an example. Remember the scope...

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