Tag: Project Quality Management
The Flow of Excellence — How Roman Aqueducts Redefined Project Quality Management
1. Rome: The City That Engineered Its Future When the Roman Empire decided to build aqueducts, it wasn’t about vanity — it was about quality of life.Water meant sanitation, agriculture, and public health. By ensuring water reached every household, Rome made quality an expectation, not a privilege. Their quality philosophy was simple: “If it cannot…
The Plane That Redefined Quality: How Boeing 777 Proved That Excellence Can Be Engineered
1. The Challenge: Building the Future Before It Existed By the late 1980s, Boeing faced an existential question: how could it compete with Airbus’s fly-by-wire A320?The answer was the 777, a completely new aircraft — larger, smarter, and more efficient — built for the long-haul market. But Boeing made a radical decision: no paper designs.…
🚀 The Challenger Disaster – When Quality Lost to Pressure
1. The Morning That Changed Project Quality Forever January 28, 1986, dawned unusually cold at the Kennedy Space Center. Frost covered the launch pad. NASA’s engineers, watching weather reports, grew uneasy. They knew the O-rings — tiny rubber seals in the solid rocket boosters — had a dangerous weakness: they lost elasticity in low temperatures.…
The Integrity Test: Upholding Quality in Challenging Projects
I’ve always believed quality is the backbone of any project—it’s what keeps things standing when everything else shakes. Back in my early days, I worked on a construction venture where rushed quality led to rework that ate half our budget. That lesson stuck: Project Quality Management is your safeguard, ensuring deliverables meet standards even when…
The Pursuit of Perfection: My Quality Management Odyssey
Quality management once felt like an afterthought to me—until a 2020 software deployment went sideways with bugs that could’ve been caught. That mishap turned me into a quality advocate, realizing it’s not about perfection but consistent improvement. In this post, let’s embark on an odyssey through quality, blending a personal narrative, key tools list, a…
🧪 Project Quality Management: Breaking the Illusion of Quality Theatre
▶️ Introduction – Why “Looking Good” Can Be Dangerous Ever seen a test plan that was 40 pages long and totally useless?Ever attended a QA sign-off meeting where everyone nodded—and no one believed the product was ready? Welcome to Quality Theatre: where we act like we care about quality, but nobody actually lives it. This…
📌 Project Quality Management: From Inspection to Continuous Excellence
➤ Introduction – Why Quality Is More Than a Checklist Quality management is the heartbeat of any project’s success. It ensures deliverables meet stakeholder needs and builds lasting trust. Although our tools and tactics have shifted dramatically, the core goal remains: deliver with excellence. 1. Quality in the Early Era: Inspection-Centric Approach 2. Modern Quality:…
The Quality Paradox: How Following Best Practices Nearly Destroyed Our Reputation
The irony was suffocating. We had executed every quality management best practice in the book. Our quality management plan was a masterpiece of ISO 9001 compliance. Our testing protocols were comprehensive. Our quality assurance processes were meticulous. Our defect tracking system was state-of-the-art. And yet, our client’s first production transaction resulted in a complete system…
The Quality Paradox: Why Perfect Projects Fail and Flawed Ones Succeed
A deep dive into the counterintuitive world of project quality management The Tale of Two Disasters Picture this: It’s March 2019, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes, killing all 157 people aboard. Five months earlier, Lion Air Flight 610 met the same fate. Both planes were Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, both suffered from the same…
Project Quality Management: Building Excellence from Day One
“Quality is not an act. It is a habit.” – Aristotle Introduction: Beyond the Inspection Myth Many projects relegate quality to the final phase—a flurry of testing and fixes just before launch. This approach, akin to policing graffiti only after it’s on the wall, invariably leads to rushed patches, frustrated teams, and disappointed stakeholders. True…
