Impact of Quality in Project Management

Every organization faces the Herculean task of executing projects that meet or exceed the expectations of its customers. However, globally, numerous projects are unsuccessful and fail to get completed within budget and timelines. They do not meet quality standards and requirements as expected by the customer. One of the underlying causes for their failure can be attributed to unaligned and weak processes that result from a combination of problems such as feeble project management, poor cost estimation, poor planning and scheduling, inadequate requirements management, and inappropriate contingency planning, as well as many others.

To maximize a project’s performance and enhance the probability of its success, every organization needs to build a better project management process dedicated to meeting the customer’s most important needs. Application of Six Sigma together with robust and efficient project management can be considered an effective tool in driving and accelerating the development and delivery of a high-quality product within budget and timelines.

Six Sigma within organizations is primarily practiced as a process improvement methodology to drive operational and business excellence. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects in any process—from manufacturing to transactional and from …