Saturday, July 3, 2010

Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control

Quality Assurance - Determines if a project follows the proper standards, procedures and processes as required. This is done by means of conducting audits and process analysis. During the audits people determine whether the project is following the process as defined by the quality plan. Process analysis determines whether the process itself is good enough etc.
 
Quality Control - This takes specific metrics and analyses to find whether the project is in control. Determines whether the schedule variance, cost variance etc is within the acceptable limits. Tools like parto diagrams, run charts, control charts, fish bone diagrams are used as quality control tools.

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