Which is the most influencing factor w.r.t. Quality Assurance?

Dear Tarun
for any quality assurance system, my experience is committment of top management and readiness to support / invest with timely needed quality resources and establishing robust quality managemnet/assurance system with clear responsibilities and expectations is the key influencing factor for Quality assurance
Regards
Mohan

Interesting that nobody selected requirements, which define the need for quality in the first place.

Hi Sergio,
From a philosophical standpoint I see requirements and objectives as the definition of what qualities or attributes matter to the customers. Timeliness and affordability themselves are qualities of a project, although they are outside what are generally thought of as qualities like dimensional tolerance of a product.

When I think about how we design quality in, my first thought is what qualities are important? People often have conflicting views of what is good or bad, so the requirements tell us which qualities are necessary.

Dear Tarun
Three influencing factors
1)Top Management honest commitement----Master set
2) Robust Quality Policy that shall ensure duely aligned quality management or assurance system
3) Robust Accountabity process for delivering quality
2 and 3 are subsets very important and fall out of Master set
REgards
Mohan

Dear Tarun
for any quality assurance system, my experience is committment of top management and readiness to support / invest with timely needed quality resources and establishing robust quality managemnet/assurance system with clear responsibilities and expectations is the key influencing factor for Quality assurance
Regards
Mohan

Dear Tarun
If you are expecting the influencing factors to be put in decending order then
My Choice
1)Reqirement analysis --as it is concept level thinking which can affect quality even with slight error in defining the quality requirements--Quality is not only quality of Prodict but of the entire process--as per value engineering at conceptual level or start of the project there is 98 % scope or opportunity for right delivery
2)Customer acceptance--That will get revealed intermittently at review and retrospectives
3)Process and Templates---Need be done with adaptive mind all through
4) Tests--Having ensured assured delivery of the quality ,kind of conformatory tests
This is my view. and Ok with you
REgards
Mohan

I agree indeed. Just I believe that in the "universe" of requirements we have, in a point, to split or clasificate the requirements. At this time, think about project quality requirements. So, when the original statement said "Requirements Analysis" for me are general speaking but not related to quality itself. But just in my case then my first step could be going deeper on that always related to project just incase I was assigned as project manager.