Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

In quality planning, the project manager defines and codifies the standards the project will be required to meet to be successful, and how those standards will be achieved and confirmed. Managers ...

Poor quality management can place a permanent stain on any project. To avoid this, the project manager must first determine how the client or the project sponsor defines quality--and then follow suit.

Six Sigma is a quality management methodology used to help businesses improve current processes, products, or services by discovering and eliminating defects. The goal is to streamline quality control ...

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Rework is a colossal denominator in cost overruns worldwide, Marco Fahd, Chairman and CEO of Versatile International, told Zawya Projects. Almost 30 percent of construction budgets are wasted on ...

Why is project management important? It unites clients and teams, creates a vision for a successful project, and gets all the stakeholders on the same page. To clients, project management seems like ...

Change can be intimidating, and for most an aversion to change is understandable. However, in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical quality control (QC) environment, change can be much more ...